Socialist Worker regrets to announce the death of longstanding Doncaster mine worker activist and Socialist Worker supporter Bert Whittle.
Vince Rutterford, who died recently, joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) at the beginning of the miners’ strike in 1984.
It is with great sadness but with gratitude for a long life well spent in the struggle for human emancipation and liberation in Africa, that we have learned of the death of Nigeria’s greatest labour leader. Pa Michael Imoudu died at his home in Edo State on 22 July, aged 102.
My brother David, who has died aged 62, left school at 15, became a factory worker and was then a milkman for many years.
The Marxist historian Pierre Broué will never achieve the status of posthumous fashionability now awarded to CLR James, nor will he ever be widely as feted as Eric Hobsbawm among literati and opinion former circles.
Basker Vashee, who has died of heart disease aged 61, was a member of the International Socialists (forerunner of the Socialist Workers Party) in the late 1960s.
Jim Benson has died peacefully at the age of 77. Jim was an active socialist all his life, working in the rail industry and living in Camden. He had a wealth of anecdotes, often told while rolling the thinnest cigarettes imaginable.
It is with unbearable sadness that we write of the sudden death of Sam Watson, beloved and wonderful son of Paula and Alan of south London.
We were shocked at the news of the death of Charlotte Jaganathan. Charlotte, only 20, was killed when her motorbike crashed as she was riding to work. She cared passionately about the environment and civil liberties. She joined the SWP on the two million strong anti-war demonstration in February 2003.
Dave Lambert was a lifelong socialist and community activist who died suddenly from a stroke last week, aged 58.
The death of Steve Donnelly is an enormous loss to the labour movement. Coming from Kirkby, a solid working class town on the outskirts of Liverpool, Steve began and finished his working life with AC Delco, a car components engineering business.
Socialists in Burnley were shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Mick White just before the new year.
