Obituaries

The 23 people whose deaths these papers marked, in 25 obituaries, tributes, memorial notices and hostile send-offs: comrades of the movement and its enemies alike. In order of surname.

Found by reading every article on this site, not only those headed as obituaries. Several were set inside a neighbouring story when the pages were divided by machine; they are filed under that story's headline, which is noted. Dates of death come from the obituary where it gives one, otherwise from the record; where only the issue is known, the issue date is given. A political obituary, written for someone still living, is marked as one. The obituaries of every Red Mole archive are together at archives.redmole.org/obituaries/.

• R. A. Butler died 8 March 1982
  Rab Butler-founder of liberal Toryism in Socialist Challenge No. 238, 17 March 1982
• Walter Citrine died 22 January 1983
  Death of a traitor in Socialist Challenge No. 279, 2 February 1983
• Miriam Daly died 26 June 1980
  Troops out conference back 8 November demonstration in Socialist Challenge No. 154, 3 July 1980 · set inside this page, among other items
• Dai Coity Davies died 14 May 1980
  Dai Coity Davies in Socialist Challenge No. 150, 5 June 1980 · set inside the page filed as “Workers pay for Thatchers victory” · the name was read from the scan
• Micky Devine died 20 August 1981
  Decision in Socialist Challenge No. 213, 14 September 1981 · his last days on hunger strike
• Hugo Dewar died 14 June 1980
  Hugo Dewar - founder of the British Trotskyist movement in Socialist Challenge No. 153, 26 June 1980
• Rudi Dutschke died 24 December 1979
  Rudolf Bahro interviewed We must not play with fire' in Socialist Challenge No. 128, 3 January 1980 · set inside this page, among other items
• James T. Farrell died 22 August 1979
  JamesT Farrell: The last of America's major left writers accidental in Socialist Challenge No. 134, 14 February 1980
  STRIKE SALES BOOST in Socialist Challenge No. 134, 14 February 1980 · set inside this page, among other items
• Dai Francis died March 1981
  South Wales miners' leader dies in Socialist Challenge No. 192, 9 April 1981
• Sanjay Gandhi died 23 June 1980
  Death of a high - flyer in Socialist Challenge No. 153, 26 June 1980
• George (surname not printed) died November 1982
  Memorial Collection in Socialist Challenge No. 281, 16 February 1983
• Sam Gordon died 12 March 1982
  The Other Bookshop 3el Uhone S1 22t be7don N1 in Socialist Challenge No. 239, 26 March 1982 · set inside this page, among other items
  Workers movement pays tribute to Sam Gordon in Socialist Challenge No. 239, 26 March 1982
• Robert Havemann died 9 April 1982
  Robert Havemann in Socialist Challenge No. 245, 13 May 1982 · reprinted from the French Inprecor
• Tom Litterick died January 1981
  Tom Litterick - always on the side of working people in Socialist Challenge No. 180, 15 January 1981
• Bob Marley died 11 May 1981
  'If you are the big tree-we are the axe... Bob Marley 1945-1981 in Socialist Challenge No. 198, 21 May 1981
• Joe McGrogan died 7 November 1980
  Joe McGrogan, in Socialist Challenge No. 173, 27 November 1980
• Kyoji Nishi died 29 April 1980
  Kyoji Nishi 1926-1980 Founder of Japanese Trotskyist movement dies in Socialist Challenge No. 148, 22 May 1980
• The Peace People political obituary, 1980
  The Peace People: an obituary in Socialist Challenge No. 135, 21 February 1980
• Anwar Sadat died 6 October 1981
  MEETTHE JOBS EXPRESS in Socialist Challenge No. 217, 15 October 1981 · set inside this page, among other items · a hostile obituary
• Robbie Stoddart died 19 July 1982
  An obituary for Robbie Stoddart in Socialist Challenge No. 259, 4 September 1982 · set inside the page filed as “Factory closure threatened in Bristol”
• Mikhail Suslov died 25 January 1982
  Guardian of Stalinist orthodoxy in Socialist Challenge No. 231, 4 February 1982
• John Walsh died January 1982
  John Walsh in Socialist Challenge No. 230, 28 January 1982 · set inside the page filed as “Invergordon - workers stand firm” · the name was read from the scan
• Murry Weiss died 26 December 1981
  Murry Weiss in Socialist Challenge No. 230, 28 January 1982