shocked by the news journal International Socialism.
Like his hero Victor Serge, had a decidedly libertarian organisation should be Peter sat with his head in his hands, could stand it no more - and left.
Leninism led to Despite which makes deadly enemies as a possible step towards left unity. down.
Peter was we can ill afford to lose MANY comrades on the revolutionary left will be of the death of Peter Sedgwick, at the age of 49. Peter left the Communist Party in 1956, and from that moment on was a partisan of the revolutionary movement. For many years he was a contributor to the SWP brilliantly translated and edited, his Marxism I first met Peter at an IS meeting in York in 1968. Tony Cliff had come to explain why the 'Leninist' from now on.
Of course, he was wrong about Leninism (but not about Cliff) but it seemed to him like a repudiation of the libertarian Marxism he cham pioned. Like many at that time, he thought that grotesque caricature political differences, Peter always befriended other comrades on the left. He hated sectarianism and the toy Bolshevik' posturing Fi oT DeoDe who agree on 99 per cent of politics. In the late 1970s he briefly supported the Socialist Unity project Towards the end of his life Peter became preoccupied with problems of mental illness; his book Psycho-Politics was published in 1981. He always believed that capitalism was responsible for the agony and turmoil which fills our mental hospitals. His own life was far from happy - the insanity of capitalism seemed to weigh him of those comrades who reminds us in the heat of bitter faction fights and frenetic campaigns that socialism is about people, about liberation from the tyranny of the rulers and bureaucracies who crush our lives. For that reason and for many others, a comrade