Charles Ashleigh (25 November 1888[1][2] – 25 December 1974) was an English labour activist, writer, and translator who became prominent in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and later the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Around 1905 or 1906, Ashleigh had been in London as in a letter he mentioned meeting a Mrs Horsley, outside Cornwall Hall, wishing to attend a lecture which had been cancelled.
[6] While working as a journalist in San Francisco, Ashleigh was arrested on October 20, 1917, during a national sweep of radical leaders and organizers.
[7] He was sentenced to 10 years in the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, on September 7, 1918, Ashleigh was inmate 13115.
[8] In 1922, the pair traveled together to the 4th World Congress of the Communist International in Petrograd, USSR.