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| Robyn Harris and Andy Brooks |
By New Worker
correspondent
Comrades
and friends gathered at the India Club in London’s West End last weekend for a
memorial dinner for Neil Harris, a leading member of the New Communist Party who
spent many happy times in its bar and restaurant.
NCP leader Andy Brooks and several members
of the Central Committee, including Daphne Liddle, Peter Hendy and Theo Russell,
joined the throng that also included members of Neil’s jazz club and friends
from his days at college in London.
Neil passed away in March after a long
battle against cancer and the dinner was held on the eve of what would have
been his 60th birthday on 4th November.
The India Club has been a frequent venue
for comrades over the years as well as students from the nearby London School
of Economics. Neil was one of them in the 1970s and many of his LSE friends
turned up to recall fond memories of Neil’s student days with his widow, Robyn,
and others during the evening.
The venue, based in a hotel in the Strand,
was originally set up as a meeting place for the India League, a British
organisation that campaigned for India’s independence. The club itself was
started by Krishna Menon, the left-wing Congress leader who was India's first
High Commissioner to Britain after independence in 1947. Though no longer a
club, the restaurant and bar is still frequented by Indian diplomats, students
and journalists.
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