Al Richardson

Al Richardson (20 December 1941 - 22 November 2003) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist. Born in Woolley Colliery, a pit village near Barnsley, Richardson studied theology at the University of Hull before becoming a lecturer at the University of Exeter. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, but left after reading Isaac Deutscher's biography of Leon Trotsky. Convinced of Trotskyism, he joined the Socialist Labour League (SLL), and resigned from the faculty at Exeter to become a history teacher in Forest Hill School, South London. He soon quit the SLL to join the rival International Marxist Group (IMG), and became prominent in the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. Despite hitchiking to Paris to join the events of May...