JOHN MOLYNEUX RIP

It was with great shock and sadness that we heard of the sudden death of our Dublin PBP comrade and friend John Molyneux. Our immediate thoughts are with his partner Mary Smith, his children, grandchildren, his Dublin comrades and friends, as well as his friends and comrades in Britain and across the globe.

John was an energetic and committed revolutionary socialist, a wonderful Marxist writer with a prodigious output and the capacity to make political ideas and theory accessible to all. He was blessed with the ability to be a great listener with the capacity for patient explanation.

His books included, The Future Socialist Society, Arguments for Revolutionary Socialism, Is Human Nature a Barrier to Socialism as well as on Art History, Eco Socialism, Climate Science, Anti Racism and Stalinism etc. John was also editor of the Irish Marxist Review.

Older Waterford and Irish comrades would have first encountered John in the mid to late 70s, in the Institute Bar, where we’d gather for chat and craic, whilst attending the annual mid-summer Marxism Festival at London University.

John moved to Dublin with his partner Mary Smith many years ago and became a popular and well-known Dublin activist and PBP member. John will be sorely missed by all in PBP and by socialists and progressives in Ireland and around the world. Our lasting tribute to John will be to continue to build the struggle for equality and a world without war, famine, environmental destruction, homelessness, racism, sexism and homophobia etc.

Rest In Power John.