Its ten years since the US socialist and cricket fan Mike Marqusee died far too young at 61.
He deserves to be remembered not least for his writing on cricket and on Bob Dylan (see link below for details).
I knew him over many years. First as a socialist in Haringey (he later defected to Hackney). In the 1980s I and others worked with him on various left-wing causes. He was in the Labour Party (Labour Briefing) and we were not but it made no difference. The key thing was to try and do something about changing the world.
Later I platformed him as a speaker on several occasions. One memorable one was the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, where he addressed a packed socialist history seminar on Bob Dylan’s politics. It was an electric occasion which is not always the case with academic seminars…
His work on Dylan, cricket and much else stands the test of time, a lasting contribution to our understanding of the world and what needs to be done to change.
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