Brendan Sexton 1911-1988

When I first met Brendan Sexton in the mid-1930s, he was pure flame: an activist in the then still-vital Socialist party, a leader in the unemployed movement, a young man full of blazing energy. I saw him from a distance, since the decade that separates us in age can be very significant for the young. To me Brendan seemed—and in this intuition I was right—one of those socialists who escaped from the narrow slots of either theoretician or spear-carrier. He was on the move, but he was start...