Obituary Mick Gosling 26 September 1952 - 7 April 2021
Monday 24 May 2021, by Penelope Duggan
Mick Gosling 26 September 1952 - 7 April 2021
The driving force of Mick Gosling’s life was the defence of working people’s rights and a commitment to socialism to achieve that.
Mick (James) Gosling grew up in Stevenage, in a left-leaning working-class family - his father had been involved in Michael Foot’s 1945 election campaign in Plymouth. Mick himself joined the LPYS at fourteen.
In 1970 he went to Kent University in the heady days of student radicalization when Kent was one of the hotspots, “Oxford, Essex, Kent unite, one struggle, one fight” is a fondly-remembered slogan. He soon joined the International Marxist Group. Friend and comrade Dave Wimhurst remembers “he was completely tireless in his efforts to support the battles of the day. This was the era of Apartheid, Troops Out of Ireland, the National Front, the Vietnam War, Pinochet’s dictatorship, the Miners’
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