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Terry Liddle, who died of a stroke on 18 November aged 64, will be best known to readers of Solidarity for his activity in the Socialist Alliance and its successor groups in the early 2000s.
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I’m sad to report the death of Tony Osborne.
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The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm died on 1 October at the age of 95.
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Robert Hughes, one of the world's foremost art critics and also author of the best book on Australia's convict-settlement history, died on 6 August.
Review by Belinda Weaver of The Fatal Shore, Hughes's history.
Review by Belinda Weaver of Nothing if not critical, one of Hughes's books of art criticism.
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Dave Packer died on 3 July, suddenly and unexpectedly though after a long period of poor health.
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Mick Shaw’s death robs the labour movement of one of its finest representatives. He was a socialist, internationalist and trade unionist who devoted his whole life to the working class and the left.
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Gery Lawless, once a prominent figure in the Irish émigré left in London, died in January at the age of 75.
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I knew the writer and academic Jim Riordan, who died last week, briefly in the early 90s when I was researching, and active in politics, at Surrey University where he was professor of Russian.
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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
