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| George Shaw |
London
comrades and friends were saddened to hear of the passing of George
Shaw, a veteran campaigner who was a stalwart supporter of the people
of the Donbas and often seen on protest pickets outside the American
and south Korean embassy.
Gerald
George Shaw was born in November 1936. He grew into a young man
interested in engineering. During his years in the car industry, he
became a Labour Party member, a militant trade unionist and a
supporter of the British Posadist movement in theTrotskyist Fourth
International
He
moved to London in the mid-1970s, settling in Wembley. He joined the
Brent Trades Council, supported the striking Grunwick workers and
helped the Kilburn Unemployed Working Group in their many campaigns
against inhuman treatment by the DWP.
George
moved to Barnet in more recent years, where he died on 27 July 2023.
He represented Unite on the Barnet Trades Council and as a Labour
Party member, he defended the comrades of the Labour Against the
Witch-hunt. He repudiated the fraudulent conflation between
anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
As
a Republican, George helped present the thesis by Bruno Leipold:
Citizen
Marx and Republic.
In later years he joined the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist
Solidarity front (IUAFS) where he denounced NATO as the warmonger
that uses Ukraine as a platform for its war on Russia, China and
their allies. Despite his age and health issues he joined numerous
protest auctions in solidarity with the victims of the fascist-backed
coup in February 2014 and the tragic events which followed.
George's
communist confidence in humanity lives on through the continuation of
our struggle for justice and equality without which there will never
be peace.
