Tuesday, July 15, 2014

RIP Andy Cox

The online E-zine Libertarian Communist paid tribute to the recent death of  SPGB member and contributor Andy Cox.

“We begin this issue with the sad news of the death of our friend and comrade Andy Cox. Andy was a member of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) South West Regional Branch (SWRB) and this is where I met him and got to know him.

 Andy was not the sort of person to just go along with the mainstream of the party and developed his own ideas about how things might be improved to enable socialist ideas to be put forward in an easy and straightforward way. To these ends via the SWRB he presented a discussion paper to the Party’s conference a few years ago. One of the main ideas was to simplify the entrance questionnaire to three main areas of agreement. Whilst by this time I had left the party, I believe the ideas in that document could have provided a basis of discussion but as far as I am aware due to a lack of understanding it received little support. This discussion paper and other ideas Andy developed on how socialism could operate can be found on his website http://socialistmatters.webs.com/.

Hopefully some of these ideas can be further developed so Andy’s work can be continued. We will much miss Andy as a friend and can ill afford to lose such comrades. We send our condolences to all members of Andy’s family and close friends and dedicate this issue of The Libertarian Communist to him.
Ray Carr (Editor)


1 comment:

Mike Ballard said...

Bookmarked his planning document. Looks very interesting.