Fran Broady, 1938-2014
Fran Broady, who was a leading member of our organisation in the 1970s, died on 18 May at the age of 75. Fran met us in 1970, when we were an opposition tendency in IS (forerunner of, but very much more open than, today's SWP). The IS/SWP expelled our tendency in December 1971, because of our campaign against the switch of line to "No to the Common Market" from advocating European workers' unity. Fran chose our small expelled group without hesitation. I remember a conversation with a student member of another left group in 1972, when we were labouring to get a circulation for our new, small...