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Sources

• Reg Birch: Engineer, Trade Unionist, Communist by Will Podmore, 1 May 2004.

• Unemployed Struggles, 1919–1936 by Wal Hannington, 1936.

• Union Man: An Autobiography by Jack Jones, 26 Aug 1986.
  • pp. 233–234: Information about Birch;
  • archive.org

• "Obituary: Reg Birch" by Terry Pattinson, The Independent, 16 Jun 1994 (link);
  • Follow-up, by Henry Roe, 21 Jun 1994 (link)

• 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

• Maoism in the Developed World by Robert Jackson Alexander, 2001. (Google Books)
  • pp. 93–94: Information about the CPB(ML).

• How Much More of This, Old Boy...?: Scenes from a Reporter's Life by Peter Paterson, Feb 2011 (link)
  • p. 183: Information about Birch.

• East Wind; China and the British Left, 1925-1976 by Tom Buchanan, 2012.

• The Kick Inside - Revolutionary Opposition in the CPGB, 1945-1991 by Lawrence Parker, 2012.

• Comparative Union Democracy; Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions by J. David Edelstein, 2017.
  • archive.org

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 (p. 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.

Newspapers

• The Observer, 22nd February 1970
• Liverpool Daily Post, 27th June 1975
• The Birmingham Post, 3rd September 1975
• The Daily Telegraph, 4th June 1994
• The Guardian, 8th June 1994

Potential sources (Oxford Bibliographies)

• Beckett, Francis. The Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party. London: John Murray, 1995.
• Branson, Noreen. History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1927–41. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1985.
• Branson, Noreen. History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1941–51. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1997.
• Lilleker, Darren G. Against the Cold War: The History and Political Traditions of Pro-Sovietism in the British Labour Party 1945–89. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004.
• Thorpe, Andrew. The British Communist Party and Moscow 1920–43. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.