‘Gamekeeper Turned Poacher’: Frank Chapple, Anti-Communism, and Soviet Human Rights Violations

The inclusion of the British trade union leader Frank Chapple on panel 1985 Sakharov hearings, an event designed to hold Soviet authorities account for their violation human rights, raises questions about workings broader network activists highlighting abuses. This article assesses Chapple’s support rights in Union, arguing that because his historic membership Communist Party and subsequent anti-communist leadership Electrical Trades Union (ETU) Britain, victims persecution was multifaceted Cold War context.