Wikipedia's first sentence called it “chair of the communist party of britain”. Today it says “english communist and trade union activist of german-jewish descent who has been successful in having paintings”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
Halpin (née Hess born 1944, Hampstead, London) is a British journalist and political activist. Halpin is chair of the Communist Party , 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 . Previously a long-time member of the Communist Party of Great Britain , she stood for election to the London Assembly . "£100m secret of woman they call 'Stalin's granny'" , Evening Standard (thisislondon website), 18 November 2006 "Flushing out the Labourites" .1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Halpin (born circa 1944) 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 . Previously a long-time member of the Communist Party of Great Britain , she stood for election to the London Assembly .
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Halpin (born April 1944) is an English communist and trade union activist of German-Jewish descent who has been successful in having paintings returned to her that were looted by the Nazis from her grandfather, Alfred Hess , in the 1930s.Several works, such as Berlin Street Scene (1913) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Nude by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , have been returned to her and subsequently sold; the former sold at auction for £20.5 million to the Neue Galerie New York , which also paid over £1 million to Halpin for Nude .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
English communist and trade union activist of German-Jewish descent Anita E. Halpin (born April 1944) is an English communist and trade union activist of German-Jewish descent who has been successful in having paintings returned to her that were looted by the Nazis from her grandfather, Alfred Hess , in the 1930s. Several works, such as Berlin Street Scene (1913) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Nude by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , have been returned to her and subsequently sold; the former sold at auction for £20.5 million to the Neue Galerie New York , which also paid over £1 million to Halpin for Nude .
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Then
chair of the communist party of britain
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english communist and trade union activist of german-jewish descent who has been successful in having paintings
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