Peter Cadogan
British political activist (1921–2007)
Peter Cadogan (26 January 1921 – 18 November 2007) was an English writer and political activist.
Life
Cadogan was born in Whitley Bay on 26 January 1921. He attended The King's School, Tynemouth during the 1930s, before studying history at King's College, Durham. Cadogan first gained employment with an insurance company. In 1941, he joined the Royal Air Force Air Sea Rescue and served until 1946. On his demobilisation, he became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He became a teacher in Northampton and Cambridge following his 1949 marriage to Joyce Stones, the daughter of Labour MP William Stones.
When Cadogan was ousted from the Communist Party in 1956, he became a member of the Labour Party. Whilst in Labour, Cadogan was part of the first Socialist Labour League (SLL) conference in 1959. After being removed from the Labour Party and SLL that year, Cadogan became an editor for a Trotskyist magazine called International Socialism in 1960.
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