Robert Altman, who has died aged 81, was one of the greatest filmmakers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Mario Uribe recently died suddenly at the age of 59. It was through Chilean solidarity work that I met him, and we remained friends for the next 30 years.
Birgül’s extraordinary will to survive, to remain positive, to look to the future and to accept the present reality meant that although the last few months of her life were stressful, she never allowed the worry about her illness to be uppermost in her mind.
Socialists and anti-war campaigners on Teesside will be saddened to learn of the death of Wendy Richardson, partner of Respect member Alan Dixon. Wendy and Alan have two lovely daughters - Lauren and Jemma aged 11 and ten.
It was with great sadness that Lowestoft SWP learned of the death on 26 October of our friend and comrade Colin Leggett.
Muriel Hirsch was one of those people who bucked the conventional wisdom that socialists move rightwards as they get older.
Peter Fryer, who has died aged 79, was the journalist for the Communist Party’s Daily Worker (now the Morning Star) paper who reported from Hungary during the revolutionary events of 1956.
In his latest book, the marvellous Freedom Next Time, journalist and film-maker John Pilger presents "an antidote to authorised versions of contemporary history that censor by omission and impose double standards".
Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian director of The Battle of Algiers, died last week. Despite the fact his last film came out 27 years ago, the tributes paid have been enormous.
Andy Birchenough died last week just under two months after a diagnosis of stomach cancer. He was 47.
It is with great sadness that everyone in Portsmouth Stop the War Coalition, Respect and the SWP records the death of our friend and comrade, Dunkan Tickner from cancer. Dunkan served as chair of Portsmouth Respect from its foundation until his death and was a key campaigner in all local anti-war activities.
Ted Grant, who died last week, was one of the last survivors of the generation of Trotskyists who inherited the movement after the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s murder in 1940.
