John Molyneux
Molyneux joined the International Socialists in Britain in 1968 after being radicalized by the antiwar movement and the revolt of that year. He became one of the Socialist Worker's Party's leading theorists and a popular speaker. He was a lecturer at the School of Art, Design, and Media, University of Portsmouth, from 1992.
During his years in Portsmouth, he was a significant influence in the city left as well as a lecturer at the polytechnic university there. He organized a number of demonstrations, including getting 12 coaches of people to the 2003 demonstration against the Iraq War, in London. In January 2009 he was arrested for organizing a peace rally of 400 people against the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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