I’m so sad to hear the news that my friend and comrade, John Molyneux has died. I only found out this afternoon when a fellow member of Kerry PBP Branch told me when I was on the phone to him.

I first met John when I moved to Portsmouth from Birmingham in England in 1986 to take up studying for a BA degree in history. We were both involved in the Portsmouth Anti-Pol Tax Union and the campaign in support of the mass protests in Tiananmen Square, Peking (Beijing), in 1989.

It was some years later when I bumped into John again when he came to live in Ireland. Most recently I worked closely with John, amongst other members in the Socialist Workers’ Network in preparing and publishing my article on the Civil War in Kerry for the latest issue of the Irish Marxist Review for which John was an extremely dedicated editor. I am extremely grateful to John and indeed all of the IMR team for allowing me the opportunity to get my article on the Civil War published in IMR. My only regret is that I was not in a position to do more.

John was a revolutionary first and foremost who dedicated his life to the emancipation of the working-class and the cause of international socialism.

RIP John and sincere condolences to Mary Smith and and his family and comrades. ‘The power is yours’.