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Stan Newens, 1930-2021
Author: Martin Thomas
Stan Newens died on 2 March, at the age of 91. He got a jaundiced obituary in the
Guardian, warmer ones elsewhere, and a tribute from Jeremy Corbyn which airbrushed out Newens revolutionary Marxist activity in his 20s. In old age Newens wrote an autobiography, which I have not read, but is reviewed here by Ian Birchall.
In February 1995 Newens gave an account, in Workers Liberty magazine, vol.1 no.18, of his earlier political days and what he then made of them.
I joined the Socialist Review Group [forerunner of today s SWP] in 1952 and drifted out about 1960.