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Matt Lygate — founding member of the Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) in the 1960s, bank-robber in the 1970s, and briefly a political celebrity in the early 1980s — died last week.
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In the 1940s, George Orwell wrote that “every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I u
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At 1am on 24 November, Loumamba Mohsni — a long-time Tunisian Trotskyist activist — died of a heart attack following a long illness.
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By Martin Thomas
Léonce Aguirre, a leader of the New Anti-Capitalist Party in France, and before that of the LCR (Revolutionary Communist League), died suddenly from meningitis on 29 September.
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Patrick Rolfe, a revolutionary socialist activist and member of Workers’ Liberty between 2008 and 2010, died on 10 June from a rare form of stomach cancer.
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It is with great sadness that we inform you that our comrade Patrick Rolfe has died at the age of 24.
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Jean-René Chauvin died on 27 February 2011. Thus the number 201627, tattooed by the Nazis on his forearm when he was deported in 1943, will no longer testify to the barbarism of the past century.
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Labour and socialist historian Dorothy Thompson died on 29 January at the age of 87. She is best known for her large and tremendously important work on the 19th century Chartist movement.
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An indication of the regard in which Jayaben Desai was held was the fact that on a miserable December weekday morning over one hundred people turned out for her funeral. A good proportion were there to show their respect for the inspirational woman who came to represent the Grunwick strikers of 1976-1978.
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Ernest Mandel, the foremost post-Trotsky Trotskyist for many decades, died in his native Belgium on 21 July, at the age of 72.
