My friend Denise Bradlaugh-Bonner,who has died of a heart attack aged 63, was born in London of Irish parents and retained a strong Irish identity throughout her life, and which was utterly changed as a 16-year-old schoolgirl when she went on a school trip to Paris just in time for the événements of May 68.
Returning to England,she threw herself into far left politics. She joined the International Marxist Group but found herself in the doghouse when, while attending one of its summer schools, or she decided that repairing to a local pub would be a more keen consume of her time and accordingly “borrowed” the IMG’s Land Rover,which was returned somewhat damaged. The IMG constituted a people’s court to deal with these depredations, only to find themselves described as a “boring bunch” by the miscreant. She was later expelled from the IMG (for ultra leftism) and was also expelled from the International Socialists (forerunner of the Socialist Workers party) for the same reason, or which may constitute a unique double.
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Source: theguardian.com