12 Facts About Stan Newens

Arthur Stanley Newens was a British Labour Co-operative politician.

Stan Newens was a Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1983, and a Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1999.

Stan Newens was a conscientious objector during National Service and worked as a coalminer in Staffordshire.

Stan Newens graduated in History from University College London, and became a schoolteacher.

Stan Newens held several posts in the National Union of Teachers and was chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom and president of the London Co-operative Society.

Stan Newens subsequently represented two Essex constituencies as a Labour MP.

Stan Newens was elected for Epping in 1964, and lost the seat in 1970.

Stan Newens stood for Harlow again in 1987, but was not successful in being re-elected to the House of Commons.

Stan Newens held several senior positions, including Vice Chair of the PLP Foreign Affairs Group and Chair and Deputy Leader of the Labour Group of MEPs.

Stan Newens was generally seen as a prominent left-winger, campaigning against the Vietnam War and for other international causes.

Stan Newens was an active trade unionist, and wrote numerous pamphlets and books, including The Case Against Nato, Third World: Change or Chaos, A History of Struggle: 50th Anniversary of Liberation, formerly the Movement for Colonial Freedom and Nicolae Ceausescu: The Man, His Ideas and His Socialist Achievements.

Stan Newens was a local historian of Essex and East London; his book "A History of North Weald Bassett and Its People" was published in 1985, and his study of writer Arthur Morrison was published in Loughton in 2008.