Obituaries
Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi-hunter dead at 96—part 1
“Only a regime which admits to historical truth can learn from the past”
By Nancy Hanover, November 14, 2005
The following is the first 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 second part will be posted on Tuesda...
Ralph Edmond (1926-2005): worker and socialist
By Eula Steele and Samuel Davidson, July 9, 2005
Ralph A. Edmond, Jr. died of an aneurysm and heart failure after slipping into a coma in the early morning of June 25. He passed away at the home of his daughter Paula Landon in New Brighton, Pennsylv...
An appreciation of biologist Ernst Mayr (1904-2005)
By Walter Gilberti, May 3, 2005
Ernst Mayr, arguably the preeminent biologist of the twentieth century, died on February 3, succumbing after a short illness at the age of 100. Mayr was the last survivor of a generation of renowned n...
Longstanding Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies
Velupillai Sarawanaperumal (1948-2005)
By K. Ratnayake, April 20, 2005
Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member Velupillai Sarawanaperumal, known affectionately to his comrades and friends as Papa, died early on the morning of April 14 after his lungs failed. His untimely d...
Nathan Steinberger dies at 94
A life dedicated to the fight against fascism and Stalinism
By Verena Nees, March 9, 2005
On February 26 Nathan Steinberger died at the age of 94 in a hospital in Berlin. His wife Edith died four years ago. Nathan and Edith Steinberger were among the last members of a generation who lived ...
January 27, 2005
On the morning of Sunday, January 16, pioneer Indian Trotskyist Druba Jyoti Majumdar died at his home in Katwa, West Bengal, of asthma. He was 75.
Des Warren: 1937—2004
The best of his generation
By Mike Ingram, May 10, 2004
With the death of Des Warren on April 24, the working class lost one of its most principled representatives. The immediate cause was pneumonia, but the ultimate responsibility for the death of the 66-...
Longtime supporter of International Committee in US dies
By Jerry Isaacs, December 10, 2003
David Nickerson, a longtime supporter of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States and its forerunner, the Workers League, died in his sleep in Los Angeles on November 25 at the age of 62. He ...
Sabaratnam Rasendran 1947—2002
Veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies in Colombo
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), March 2, 2002
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) announces the death of comrade Sabaratnam Rasendran with profound sorrow. Rasendran died at the Chest Hospital in Welisara, Sri Lanka, of pneumonia and lung abscess ...
Why was Stanley Kramer so unfashionable at the time of his death?
By David Walsh, February 26, 2001
American film director and producer Stanley Kramer, who died February 22 in Woodland Hills, California, was one of those unfortunate once-prominent artists who are best known by the time of their deat...
Career spanned rise and decay of US auto union
Former UAW President Leonard Woodcock dies
By Shannon Jones, February 3, 2001
On January 16 Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers from 1970-77 and later US ambassador to China under President Jimmy Carter, died in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the age of 89. An offici...
Messages of condolence for Ernst Schwarz
January 25, 2001
The German Socialist Equality Party (Partei für Soziale Gleichheit) received the following messages paying tribute to Ernst Schwarz, who died unexpectedly at the age of 43 on January 13.
