Pleased to see this on the Hayes history blog:
http://ourhistory-hayes.blogspot.com/2009/10/peter-pink-hayes-communist-party.html
I never met Peter Pink though I remember him doing the Star fighting fund column (was he before or after Barbara Niven -- I did meet her at the old Star building in Farringdon Road when I was given a tour during my student days).
Guy Burgess
Eton & Cambride