In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations

Marc-Henri Reckinger, painter emeritus from Luxembourg, died on 31 August at the age of 83. He was a committed artist who openly claimed to be a Trotskyist.

It is difficult to realize today, fifty years later, the hope represented throughout the South American continent by the experience of Popular Unity in Chile. The arrival of the Allende government in 1970 opened a new page, a surge of optimism and the perspective of social transformation of the continent, in particular for Brazilian militants who had taken refuge in Chile to flee the Brazilian military dictatorship.
It was with this optimism that Túlio Roberto Quintiliano arrived in Chile (…)

Livio Maitan belonged to a lost world of professional revolutionaries whose struggles and sacrifices left a deep mark on twentieth-century history. Historian Enzo Traverso pays tribute to one of the Italian left’s most creative activist-intellectuals.

Ernest Mandel was an internationalist and revolutionary activist who combined thought and action throughout his life. In intellectual terms, his extensive theoretical output, his many analyses of the economic and political situation and his numerous articles influenced a large generation of activists, students, researchers and leaders of trade union, social and political organizations, well beyond the Fourth International, which Mandel helped to lead. Mandel was a builder of organizations. (…)

Adolfo Gilly: 25 August 1928 Argentina - 4 July 2023 Mexico.

Tierra o Muerte! Land or death!

“To us, Mimis Livieratos has been a valuable comrade. But he is also a historical legacy of the Trotskyist movement.”

“Winnie was one of the outstanding figures produced by the 68 movement. He had and continues to have an impact far beyond with completely new themes. The German left owes him much.”

Tribute delivered by Daniel Tanuro at the funeral of Belgian eco-socialist and feminist Marijke Colle, Thursday, 27 April 2023.

Tribute delivered by Oksana Shine at the funeral of Belgian eco-socialist and feminist Marijke Colle, Thursday, 27 April 2023.