Socialists and anti-war campaigners in Neath and Swansea were shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Phil Cockwell last week while walking at Cefn Sidan sands in South Wales.
When I heard of the death of Bob Smith at the age of 51, like most comrades and friends of his, I was completely shocked and saddened.
Peter Law was a grand friend, comrade and socialist, who spent all his adult life serving the local community, as a councillor, member of the Welsh Assembly and in his last year as MP for Blaenau Gwent.
My father Ken Orrill died on 10 March, aged 75. He died after a long fight against cancer, possibly asbestosis from working as a heating engineer.
It is with great sorrow that Socialist Worker says goodbye to Linda Smith.
My earliest recollection of Peter is seeing him reading out the announcements over the tannoy on the platform at Harrow on the Hill underground station.
It was Van Morrison who put George Best into proper context, which was apt. "Too long in exile," sang the Man on the title track of his hugely underrated 1993 album. "Just like George Best, baby… just like Alex Higgins."
Everyone associated with education will have felt an enormous sense of loss last week on hearing of the untimely death of Ted Wragg, aged 67.
Majer Bogdanski was born in Piotrkow-Tribunalski in Poland on 4 July 1912 and died in London on 4 September 2005. He was a member of the Bund, a Jewish socialist organisation which saw the future for Jews as being in the countries where they had been living for centuries.
Bert Whittle, a lifelong militant in the National Union of Miners (NUM), and a socialist activist in the Doncaster area died unexpectedly last week after a short illness. Bert was an inspiration to all who knew him, a man of socialist principles, wisdom and energy.
Sheffield Socialist Workers Party are saddened at the recent death of Kevin Murphy at the age of 44.
