Partisan Coffee House, Soho, London

Partisan Coffee House, Soho, London. The Partisan was a radical venue of the New Left, at 7 Carlisle Street, established by historian Raphael Samuel in 1958 in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Hungary. It closed in 1962. Stuart McPhail Hall (1932-2014) - cultural theorist, political activist and sociologist - is pictured here (second from left). Hall was part of the group that founded the Partisan, which initially came together in Oxford, as editors and contributors of the Universities and Left Review magazine

Activist Carlisle Discussing Fringe Left Wing Left-wing Mcphail Partisan Radical Sociologist Soho Theorist

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