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Fairwell Comrade George


I attended the funeral of a great neighbour of mine, 91 year old George Barnsby yesterday. George was our resident Communist. El Comandate. It was a humanist funeral and a wonderful celebration of George's life and rightly so. For George was lifetime anti-racist, anti-fascist activist and dedicated his whole life to the rights of man. Many a person paid a moving tribute to the life and dedication of Comrade George to the cause, but I shall remember George best as a neighbour who I would run out to see as he passed my moms house on his way to deliver the Daily Blog to those without a computer. "Hello George" I would call to him, "Hello my dear" he would reply. We would chat about the state of the Labour party, the wonderful regime change in America and the how the world could be a better place. I'll miss Comrade George, but he leaves a great legacy and inspires generations and generations to never give up on hope and freedom.


"without struggle, there is no progress" Frederick Douglass

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