text: Sam Lesser: Veteran communist journalist who served with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War | The Independent | The Independent
  As a journalist with the Daily Worker and Morning Star for more than 40 years, Sam Lesser was a witness to many of the great events of the 20th century.
  He was in Hungary in 1956 after the Soviet tanks moved in, reported from Cuba during the missile crisis of 1962, from Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the Prague Spring of 1968, and was in Chile when President Allende was overthrown in 1973.