John Archer: black pioneer of labour politics
Painting of John Archer which hangs in Liverpool Town Hall. It contains many important details about Archer. The paper is The Crisis , edited by W E B Du Bois “My election tonight marks a new era. You have made history tonight. For the first time in the history of the English nation, a man of colour has been elected as mayor of an English borough… That news will go forth to all the coloured nations of the world and they will look at Battersea, and say it is the greatest thing you have done” – John Archer, 1913 In January, Workers' Liberty published a pamphlet on Shapurji Saklatvala, the...