Obituaries
French revisionist Pierre Lambert dies aged 87
By Peter Schwarz, January 21, 2008
Pierre Lambert, the long-time leader of the French Organisation Communiste Internationaliste (OCI) and of today’s Parti des Travailleurs (PT), died at age 87 on January 16 in Paris after a long ...
Social theorist André Gorz dies, aged 84
By Stefan Steinberg, October 9, 2007
On September 24, the economist and social theorist André Gorz, 84, committed suicide together with his wife in their house near Paris. The couple had made a pact to end their lives together following...
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007)
Ex-UN chief’s Nazi past covered up
By Dietmar Henning, June 21, 2007
Last week, former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim died at the age of 88. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure.
Jerry Falwell, founder of the right-wing Moral Majority, dead at 73
By David Walsh, May 17, 2007
Jerry Falwell, one of the leaders of the Christian Right in the US, died Tuesday in his office in Lynchburg, Virginia at the age of 73. Although his brand of fundamentalist hucksterism has been around...
Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
October 12, 1969-February 28, 2007
March 7, 2007
Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee (Senthil), a member of the International Committee based in London, was killed in a car accident in the early hours of February 28 on the London-bound M20 motorway. He ...
Former US President Gerald Ford dies
Pardoned Nixon for Watergate crimes
By David Walsh, December 28, 2006
Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, died December 26 at the age of 93 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California.
Jeane Kirkpatrick: from “social democrat” to champion of death squads
By Bill Van Auken, December 12, 2006
Jeane Kirkpatrick, the acerbic right-wing former US ambassador to the United Nations, died December 7 at the age of 80.
Ted Grant: A political appraisal of the former leader of the British Militant Tendency
Part 2
By Ann Talbot, September 28, 2006
This is the conclusion of a two-part obituary. Thefirst part was posted September 27.
Ted Grant: A political appraisal of the former leader of the British Militant Tendency
Part 1
By Ann Talbot, September 27, 2006
This is the first of a two-part obituary.
Theodore Draper—American historian and social critic
By Peter Daniels, March 31, 2006
Theodore Draper, the historian who first came to prominence with his two volumes on the history of the American Communist Party published nearly 50 years ago, died last month at the age of 93. Draper&...
Eugene McCarthy, dead at 89, played pivotal role in 1968 political crisis
By Patrick Martin, December 30, 2005
The death December 10 of former senator and US presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy provides an occasion for reviewing one of the most important chapters in recent American history—the politic...
Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi-hunter dead at 96—part 2
“Only a regime which admits to historical truth can learn from the past”
By Nancy Hanover, November 15, 2005
The following is the second part of a two-part obituary of famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who died September 20, at age 96, at his home in Vienna, Austria. The first part was posted on November 1...
