Background
Frank Julian Allaun was born on February 27, 1913, in Manchester, United Kingdom, in a prosperous Jewish household.
1974
Frank Allaun, journalist, politician, author.
Old Hall Lane, Manchester, M13 0XT, United Kingdom
Frank Allaun studied at Manchester Grammar School.
Frank Allaun took a correspondence course at the University of London.
1955
Frank Allaun celebrates being elected to Parliament.
Frank Allaun election leaflet.
Frank Allaun was a member of the National Union of Journalists.
Frank Allaun was a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
Frank Allaun was a member of the Union of Distributive and Allied Workers.
Frank Allaun took part in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
1955
Frank Allaun celebrates being elected to Parliament.
1982
James Edward Mortimer, centre, at a press conference with Frank Allaun, left, and Gerald Kaufman.
Frank Allaun, journalist, politician, author.
Frank Allaun election leaflet.
Frank Allaun was a powerful advocate for better housing.
Frank Allaun was a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
Frank Allaun was a member of the National Union of Journalists.
Frank Allaun was a member of the Union of Distributive and Allied Workers.
Frank Allaun took a correspondence course at the University of London.
Old Hall Lane, Manchester, M13 0XT, United Kingdom
Frank Allaun studied at Manchester Grammar School.
Frank Allaun took part in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Frank Allaun's friend Tony Benn, politician, writer, and diarist.
Frank Allaun's friend Tam Dalyell, politician.
Frank Allaun's friend Edmund Frow, activist Communist and the Working Class Movement Library founder.
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1960
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1968
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1972
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1981
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1988
Frank Julian Allaun was born on February 27, 1913, in Manchester, United Kingdom, in a prosperous Jewish household.
Frank Allaun studied at Manchester Grammar School. A graduate of the University of London, he took a correspondence course in accountancy, which he completed in 1934. Allaun trained at his father's insistence as an accountant, though his true wish was to become a journalist.
Frank Allaun worked in various types of jobs, including an engineer, a tour guide, a shop assistant, and a lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association.
Allaun was editor of the Labour Party newspaper the Northern Voice from 1945 to 1967. He was also a northern industrial correspondent for the Manchester Evening News from 1947 to 1951 and for the London Daily News during the 1950s.
Allaun was elected to the House of Commons in 1955 as a member of the Labour Party representing Salford East. While a member of Parliament, he was parliamentary private secretary to Colonial Secretary Anthony Greenwood from 1964 until his resignation in 1965, and was on the Labour Party's national executive committee from 1967 to 1983, serving as deputy chairman in 1977 and 1978 an as chairman from 1978 to 1979.
Frank Allaun's political career was fraught with contention, and he often found himself opposing the more popular views in Parliament. As an organizer of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, for which he became vice president in 1983, and as president of the Labour Action for Peace from 1965 to 2001, he argued against Britain's more militant stances on such issues as the Suez Crisis of 1957.
With the rise of a more conservative government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Labour's influence waned, and Allaun retired from Parliament in 1983. However, he remained politically active and continued to serve as president of Labour Action for Peace until 2001, when he stepped down from president to vice president.
Allaun's political beliefs led him to write a number of pamphlets and books, including Your Trade Union and You (1950), Heartbreak Housing (1968), No Place like Home: Britain’s Housing Tragedy (1972), Nuclear Weapons: Questions and Answers (1981), Spreading the News: A Guide to Media Reform (1988), and his last work, The Struggle for Peace (1992).
Frank Allaun was a member of the Communist Party until 1944. Then he joined the Labour Party. Frank Allaun was one of the participants in the 1974 Commons revolt, which consisted of Labour Party members who opposed the government's plans for military spending.
An opponent of nuclear weapons, Frank Allaun was a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, helping to organize its first Aldermaston march. Allaun was a powerful advocate for better housing for the poor, arguing that it was more important to build decent homes than it was to build bombs to make war abroad, and he constantly pressed for Britain's withdrawal from the European Economic Community, calling the Europeans "warmongers." His insight into the links between housing and health was recognized by the Association of Public Health Inspectors. In addition to his anti-war and pro-housing causes, Allaun was a supporter of reform in the media, and he chaired a Labour committee that proposed a "right to reply" reform which was ultimately unsuccessful.
Frank Allaun was a straight up-and-down idealist. His style was intensely gentle, the voice never raised, but the questions were insistent. He had good manners and a soft voice. Though he could be persuasive, Allaun was not an orator; his skill was with the pen.
Frank Allaun was a champion ballroom dancer.
Frank Allaun's first wife Lilian Ball, whom he married in 1941, died in 1986. On June 3, 1989, he married Millicent Bobker (Greenberg), a widow and retired civil servant. He had a son and daughter of his first marriage.
It was through his Communist Party of Great Britain membership that Frank Allaun met Eddie Frow, an activist Communist and later founder of the Working Class Movement Library (WCML). Despite political differences, the two remained lifelong friends.
