David Widgery

David Widgery, 1947 to 1992, Marxist writer, journalist, physician and activist. Among his works are: The Chatto Book of Dissent (1991), an anthology of dissident writings, co-authored with Michael Rosen; Some Lives! (1991), the story of the horrors he encountered as a doctor on London's East End; and Beating Time (1986), an account of the Rock Against Racism movement of the late 1970s. One obituary described Widgery, who died in London at the age of 45, as as "a radical humanist intellectual on permanent loan to revolutionary socialism."