George Hardy (communist)
George Hardy was an English communist. He was General Secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1921 and later secretary of the National Minority Movement.In 1927 he went to China as a Comintern agent. He arrived Hangzhou when Chiang Kai-shek was initiating his attacks on the Chinese Communist Party, particularly through the Shanghai Massacre. He remained in China working underground with the CCP and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Hardy returned to China in 1951 as part of the British-China Friendship Association.
In 1953 Hardy entered into correspondence with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn who he had known in 1923. He renewed their relationship after Flynn had been jailed under the Smith Act.Texts
