Anita Halpin

Anita E. Halpin (née Hess born 1944, Hampstead, London[1]) is a British journalist and political activist.

Halpin 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.[2] Previously a long-time member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, she stood for election to the London Assembly.[3]

Restitution of Paintings

In 2006 she inherited a painting, as the sole surviving heir to a Jewish German shoe factory owner, under contentious restitution laws concerning art looted by the Nazis. Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which had hung in Berlin's Brücke Museum,[4] was sold at Christies auction house in New York for £20.5million on 8 November 2006.[5]

According to 'Pandora' in The Independent newspaper of 26 May 2008[6] she has donated the sum of £9,310 to her party.

References

  1. ^ "£100m secret of woman they call 'Stalin's granny'", Evening Standard (thisislondon website), 18 November 2006
  2. ^ "Flushing out the Labourites". Weekly Worker. Archived from the original on 2008-06-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20080604165555/http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/723/flushing.html. Retrieved 2008-06-22. 
  3. ^ "Candidates for the Greater London Assembly". http://www.election.demon.co.uk/glacand.html. Retrieved 2006-11-10. 
  4. ^ "Jewish Heirs Want Their Art Back". SPIEGEL Magazine. http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,447136-2,00.html. Retrieved 2006-11-10. 
  5. ^ Lewis, Paul (2006-11-10). "Communist Party chair nets £20m in painting sale". The Guardian (London). http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1944368,00.html. Retrieved 2006-11-10. 
  6. ^ Duff, Oliver (2008-05-26). "£20m 'Stalin's granny' gives pittance to her party". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/pandora/pandora-cherie-is-brought-to-book-834311.html. Retrieved 2010-04-25.