"Bevan Boys" during the Second World War In May 1944, four Trotskyists, Ann Keen, Heaton Lee, Roy Tearse, and Jock Haston, were jailed for “inciting and furthering” an illegal strike, after a prolonged press campaign, led by the Daily Mail and the Communist Party’s Daily Worker , against their efforts around an apprentices’ strike on Tyneside. This is Ann Keen’s speech for the court. Consistently throughout the trial the prosecution has attempted to separate me from my comrades. He has pictured me as a dupe of Lee and the others. I do not ask for any special consideration. The part I played in...