Young Communist
Alfred Sherman joined the Communist Party as a teenager and left his studies at Chelsea Polytechnic at the age of 17 to fight for the Major Attlee Battalion of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, 1937–38, where he was taken prisoner and repatriated to Britain. After returning home, he worked in a London electrical factory.
Between 1939 and 1945 he served in the Middle East in the Field Security and Occupied Enemy Territory Administration. After the war, in the summer of 1948 he was expelled from the CPGB for "Titoist deviationism" and subsequently spent some time in Yugoslavia as a volunteer in a "youth work brigade". In 1950 he graduated from the London School of Economics.
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