Monthly meeting on 8th April 2025 at 14:00

Rhondda – its first Woman Mayor and who was also a committed Communist

City URC, Sanctuary

Talk by: Dr. Jean Silvan Evans

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Dr. Jean Silvan Evans presents – Wales’ only Communist Mayor Annie Powell.


In 1960, she was a CPGB delegate at a major conference of Communist parties in Moscow, where she claimed to have impressed Nikita Khrushchev with her rendition of “Hen Wlad fy Nhadau”, the national anthem of Wales. Annie was a teacher, social reformer – and an arch enemy of Margaret Thatcher!

 

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