Obituaries
26 June 2021 · · Obituaries
Penny Kemp (1949-2021)
Penny Kemp, who died on 12 June after a battle with Parkinsons Disease, was a long standing Green Party member and a pioneering ecosocialist, writes Derek Wall.. I have found it difficult to…
25 May 2021 · Britain, Obituaries · 1 comment
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“One of the indispensable ones ” Mick Gosling 26 September 1952 - 7 April 2021 The driving force of Mick Gosling’s life was the defence of working people’s rights and a commitment to sociali…
8 February 2021 · Fourth international, Obituaries · 3 comments
A tribute to Ernie Tate
Ernest (‘Ernie’) Tate, one of the founders of the International Marxist Group (IMG) and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) in the 1960s, has died from cancer at the age of 86 at his home …
4 December 2020 · · Obituaries, Scotland
Jim McVicar, 1958-2020
Sad passing of a true Scottish militant Socialist Resistance and Fourth International supporters in Britain were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jim McVicar on Thursday 3 rd Decemb…
11 May 2020 · Obituaries
An Appreciation of Neil Davidson (1957-2020)
Socialist Resistance and supporters of the Fourth International were deeply saddened by the recent death of Scottish marxist writer and activist Neil Davidson from a brain tumour. In his wor…
16 September 2018 · Bosnia, Obituaries
Remembering Mick Woods - preserving the IWA archive
Mick Woods, a comrade from Britain who had lived in Denmark for more than twenty years, died at the too young age of 64 in July, as Geoff Ryan and Sue Woodford told us in their obituary here…
5 September 2018 · Obituaries · 2 comments
Mick Woods (28/12/1954 – 19/7/2018) Comrade, Fighter, Friend
We are writing to say goodbye to our friend and comrade Mick Woods who has died too young - at the early age of 64 in hospital in Aarhus, Denmark, write Geoff Ryan and Sue Woodford . Mick ha…
11 January 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Obituaries
Physics teacher became a pioneer ecologist
Factory worker Alan Roberts returned from war service to gain a degree in physics. While teaching at Monash his passionate opposition to nuclear power led to him becoming one of Australia's …
17 November 2017 · · Obituaries · 1 comment
Obituary: Derek Robinson 1927—2017
by Alan Thornett Derek Robinson has died at the age of 90. He became a major figure in the car industry and in BL in the mid-1970s after he succeeded fellow Communist Party (CP) member Dick …
2 October 2017 · Kurdish struggle, Obituaries
Mehmet Aksoy: an inspiration to new generations
We send our heartfelt condolences and solidarity to the family and friends of Mehmet Aksoy, killed on Tuesday 26 September in an attack by ISIS on the camp near Raqqa where he was working as…