From the Irish Times an obituary on John Throne, a leading Irish Marxist from rural Protestant background.


John Throne made his mark by founding and building the ‘militant tendency’ in Ireland, the precursor of today’s Socialist Party 

 
Throne quickly became key figure in hothouse of Ireland’s far-left politics in the 1970

The road from John Throne’s home, the smallholding outside Lifford, Co Donegal, took him on a long and unlikely, winding course, geographically and politically: a small farmer from a Protestant, very Orange family who would end up travelling the world preaching Marxism and Trotskyism.

Throne who has died in Chicago at the age of 75, plunged into a life of full-time socialist political activism after participating in Derry’s “battle of the Bogside” in 1969.

He quickly became a central figure in the hothouse of Ireland’s far-left politics in the 1970s, and a thorn in the side of the leadership of the Labour Party, on whose executive he served before expulsion in the early 1990s.

Continue reading @ the Irish Times.

John Throne

From the Irish Times an obituary on John Throne, a leading Irish Marxist from rural Protestant background.


John Throne made his mark by founding and building the ‘militant tendency’ in Ireland, the precursor of today’s Socialist Party 

 
Throne quickly became key figure in hothouse of Ireland’s far-left politics in the 1970

The road from John Throne’s home, the smallholding outside Lifford, Co Donegal, took him on a long and unlikely, winding course, geographically and politically: a small farmer from a Protestant, very Orange family who would end up travelling the world preaching Marxism and Trotskyism.

Throne who has died in Chicago at the age of 75, plunged into a life of full-time socialist political activism after participating in Derry’s “battle of the Bogside” in 1969.

He quickly became a central figure in the hothouse of Ireland’s far-left politics in the 1970s, and a thorn in the side of the leadership of the Labour Party, on whose executive he served before expulsion in the early 1990s.

Continue reading @ the Irish Times.

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