Editing Raymond Postgate (section)

===Communist period===

From 1918, Postgate worked as a journalist on the ''[[Daily Herald (UK newspaper)|Daily Herald]]'', then edited by his father-in-law, Lansbury. In 1920, Postgate published ''Bolshevik Theory'', a book brought to [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]’s attention by [[H. G. Wells]]. Impressed with the analysis therein, Lenin sent a signed photograph to Postgate, which he kept for the rest of his life.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mulholland|first=Marc|date=2016|title=How to Make a Revolution: The Historical and Political Writings of Raymond Postgate Postgate|url=https://www.academia.edu/30067214|journal=Socialist History|volume=49|pages=107}}</ref> A founding member of the British [[Communist Party of Great Britain|Communist Party]] (CPGB) in 1920, Postgate left the ''Herald'' to join his colleague [[Francis Meynell]] on the staff of the party's first weekly newspaper, ''The Communist''. Postgate soon became its editor and was briefly a major propagandist for the communist cause, but he left the party after falling out with its leadership in 1922, when the [[Communist International]] insisted that British communists follow the Moscow line. As such, he was one of Britain's first left-wing former communists, and the party came to treat him as an archetypal [[bourgeois]] intellectual renegade. He remained a key player in left journalism, however, returning to the ''Herald'', then joining Lansbury on ''Lansbury's Labour Weekly'' in 1925–1927.<ref>Postgate & Postgate, pp. 107–115.</ref>