1905 conference photo misused

[jondwhite]

I see the 1905 SPGB conference photo has been used as the cover image for a video uploaded a year ago about the old Communist Party here

https://vimeo.com/106362457

[ALB]

Gresham College is presumably named after Sir Thomas Gresham of Gresham's Law that "Bad money drives out good". They seem to be testing this by putting bad publicity (using a picture of working men from the 1900s to illustrate a talk on middle class "Communists" in the 1930s) into circulation to see if it really will drive out good publicity.I would have thought that a formal protest is in order on at least two grounds (1) that it's a photo of working men not "middle class" and (2) that we've always had no association, except for opposition and contempt, with the Communist Party

[alanjjohnstone]

But they are certainly turned out in the Sunday best and most sporting fob watchesI was struck by the design of the banner on the left side…an angel of something or other…and the rising dawn…Do we have any other images of it …or what it depicts?

[Anonymous]

Aye, nee jeans and T shirts for them! They dressed proppa 

[jondwhite]

You can look at the image more closely on Wikimedia commons but it is acknowledged this is was an angelic figure. Were burning torches used in conjunction with the FC Watts classic emblem on the covers of early pamphlets?

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