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- "Reg Birch – a life remembered" by Ken Ruddock, [The] New Worker, 23 Mar 2006
- Marxists.org
- Original: New Worker Features
- "Obituary: Reg Birch" by Terry Pattinson, The Independent, 16 Jun 1994 (link);
- Follow-up, by Henry Roe, 21 Jun 1994 (link)
- [TWL] "Birch [formerly Catlin-Birch], Reginald" by Geoffrey Goodman, 25 Sep 2014;
- Dates: 23 Sep 2004 (print & online publish), 25 Sep 2014 (current version).
- How Much More of This, Old Boy...?: Scenes from a Reporter's Life by Peter Paterson, Feb 2011 (link)
- p. 183: Information about Birch.
- Reg Birch: Engineer, Trade Unionist, Communist by Will Podmore, 1 May 2004.
- The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions, 1933–1945 by Nina Fishman, 5 Jan 1995.
- Provides background to the connections between the GPGB and the unions, alongside information about the Swift's Scales strike.
- pp. 291–293, 309, 325, 327: Information about Birch;
- archive.org
- Provides background to the connections between the GPGB and the unions, alongside information about the Swift's Scales strike.
- Union Man: An Autobiography by Jack Jones, 26 Aug 1986.
- pp. 233–234: Information about Birch;
- archive.org
- Unemployed Struggles, 1919–1936 by Wal Hannington, 1936.
- Maoism in the Developed World by Robert Jackson Alexander, 2001. (Google Books)
- pp. 93–94: Information about the CPB(ML).
- The Kick Inside - Revolutionary Opposition in the CPGB, 1945-1991 by Lawrence Parker, 2012.
- East Wind; China and the British Left, 1925-1976 by Tom Buchanan, 2012.
- Comparative Union Democracy; Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions by J. David Edelstein, 2017.
- Current Background; Issues 1041–1044, 1976.
- [TWL] Workers of the Empire, Unite; Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s-1960s, edited by Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk, 2021.
- Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations; Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century by Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, 2000.
- From Scottsboro to Munich; Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain by Susan D. Pennybacker, 2009.
- It Occurred to Me by Peter D. Carr, 2004.
- A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian; All the References from Assyrians to Zeffirelli by Darl Larsen, 2018.
- Museum Representations of Maoist China; From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch by Amy Jane Barnes, 2016.
- World Strength of the Communist Party Organizations; Issue 19 by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 1967.
- The Glasgow Media Group Reader, Vol. I; News Content, Langauge and Visuals, edited by John Eldridge, 2013.
- MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law by Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, 2020.
- Hsinhua Selected News Items, 1972.
- Trade Union Register, 1970.
To-follow up
- ODNB Sources:
- Trade Union Congress annual conference reports
- Minutes of the Trade Union Congress general council, 1975–9
J. Jones, Union man (1986)N. Fishman, The British communist party and the trade unions, 1933–45 (1995)W. Hannington, Unemployed struggles, 1919–1936 (1937)- The Times (9 June 1994)
- The Guardian (8 June 1994)
The Independent (17 June 1994)The Independent (22 June 1994)- WWW, 1991–5
W. Podmore, Reg Birch: engineer, trade unionist, communist (2004)
JSTOR
- 'Socialist Development in China: A Comment' (Addy, Premen. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 9, No. 14. 6 April 1974)
- Birch is referred to as an adherant of "Mao Tse-tung Thought";
- Birch is placed alongside Charu Mazumdar, E. F. Hill, Major Ishaq and Maulana Bhasani.
- 'The International Communist Movement: Conflict of Priorities' (Popov, Milorad. The World Today, Vol. 29, No. 1. January 1973)
- 'Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation' (The China Quarterly, No. 45, January - March, 1971)
ODNB
- 'Birch [formerly Catlin-Birch], Reginald' (Goodman, Geoffrey. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 25 September 2014)
- Initially published (in print & online): 23 September 2004.
- Ash [née Sidhanta], Ranjana (Niven, Alastair. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 10 January 2019)
- Co-founder of the CPB-ML, alongside Birch.
- Carron, William John, Baron Carron (Fishman, Nina. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 06 January 2011)
- Initially published (in print & online): 23 September 2004;
- Birch's opponent within the CPGB.
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Article Ideas
- Structure:
- Biography:
- Early life (1914–c.1928)
- Early political activism (1928–45)
- Post-war activism (1945–79)
- Later life and death (1979–94)
- Personal life
- Biography: