I just read that Terry Liddle has passed away. I recall Terry from his days in the Anarchist Workers Association (ex-ORA). He was our contact with the British platformist group.
Over the years, when looking at ORA/AWA stuff, I often times wondered what happened to Terry. Little did I know he went on to become active in socialist groups. Though, this does not surprise me, given the trajectory of some in some of those historical circles.
I'd be interested in learning more about Terry during his anarchist years. And why he went over to trostskyism.
Well, sorry to hear of his death, regardless of where he wound up politically.
I lost touch with Terry apart from the odd meetings at London Anarchist bookfairs a while back now.
We worked closely together with Terry and his close comrade Joe Thomas during the formation of the old Social Revolution Group which Terry subsequently joined and continued working together when that group fused with the UK Solidarity Group but parted again over his suprise continued membership of his local Labour party, one of a number of internal disagreements around that time that resulted in a split from Solidarity and our forming the early UK Wildcat group.
Terry suffered a lot of health problems over the years but was certainly still contributing articles to various radical publication till quite recently. He remained a commited working class militant all his life and will be missed by many. I'm sure others can add a lot more to this thread.