CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Why does Frances de la Tour not have a damehood? It can t be that she was a Leftie firebrand in her youth. It was practically obligatory in theatreland in the 70s.
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The Argentine junta murdered tens of thousands in the 1970s and 1980s, and some of the orphans were fostered by regime loyalists. Only in recent years have they begun to learn who their real parents were | 1843 magazine
The Socialist Appeal group has announced that from January it will rename its fortnightly paper The Communist, and, from May, the group as the Revolutionary Communist Party. Already it has taken to using the hammer and sickle and star insignia of the old USSR. The hammer-and-sickle goes back to Lenin’s day, but is dated now how many peasants using sickles are there in Britain? and inescapably overlaid by decades of Stalinist misuse.
Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.