Anita Halpin

Anita E. Halpin (born c1944) is chair of the Communist Party of Britain, honorary treasurer for the National Union of Journalists and a member of the Trade Union Congress General Council. She is married to CPB Industrial Organiser Kevin Halpin [cite web | title=Flushing out the Labourites | work=Weekly Worker | url=http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/723/flushing.html | accessdate=2008-06-22] . Both of the Halpins are leading members of the "traditionalist" faction of the CPB [cite web | title=Divided They Fall: Communist Party of Britain congress, May 29-30 | work=Weekly Worker | url=http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/530/cpb.html | accessdate=2008-06-21] which advocates a continuation of the CPB's Popular Frontist politics and the idea of an alliance with the Labour Party bringing about socialism through Parliament, as enshrined in "Britain's Road to Socialism".

She stood for election to the Greater London Assembly. [cite web | title=Candidates for the Greater London Assembly | url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/glacand.html | accessdate=2006-11-10]

In 2006 she inherited a painting, as the sole surviving heir to a Jewish German shoe factory owner, under contentious Nazi restitution laws. "Berlin Street Scene" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which had hung in Berlin's Brücke Museum [cite web | title=Jewish Heirs Want Their Art Back | work=SPIEGEL Magazine | url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,447136-2,00.html | accessdate=2006-11-10] was sold at Christies auction house in New York for £20.5million on 8 November 2006. [cite web | title=Communist Party chair nets £20m in painting sale | work=The Guardian | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1944368,00.html | accessdate=2006-11-10]

According to "Pandora" in "The Independent" newspaper of 26/5/2008 - [cite web | title=£20m 'Stalin's granny' gives pittance to her party |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/pandora/pandora-cherie-is-brought-to-book-834311.html] - she has donated the sum of £9,310 to her party.

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