Robin Page Arnot

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Robert "Robin" Page Arnot (15 December 1890 ? 18 May 1986), best known as R. Page Arnot, was a British Communist journalist and politician. R. Page Arnot was a foundation member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920. In 1925 Arnot was among the 12 Communists arrested under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797. He was found guilty and jailed for six months, to be released on the eve of the 1926 General Strike. During the General Strike he helped to form the Northumberland and Durham Joint Strike Committee. Arnot was elected as a delegate to the 6th World Congress of the Communist International, held in Moscow in 1928. Arnot was a prolific pamphleteer and author and wrote a six volume history of the British mineworkers from 1949 to 1975. He died in 1986.