An appreciation of Mick Shaw
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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.
Obituaries
Eamonn McCann on Gery Lawless in the London Irish 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.
Jim Riordan, the Spartak spy
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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.
Matt Lygate: the passing of a Scottish leftist
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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.
Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
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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
Loumamba Mohsni, 1963-2011
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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.
Léonce Aguirre 1951-2011
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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.
Remembering Patrick Rolfe
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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.
Patrick Rolfe, 1987-2011
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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.
Jean-René Chauvin, 1918-2011
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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.