John Molyneux

John Molyneux (2 September 1948 – 10 December 2022) was a British Trotskyist, academic and author. He was a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party before retiring to Ireland, where he became active in the Irish SWP and was editor of Irish Marxist Review.

Biography Molyneux was born on 2 September 1948.

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. He was a lecturer at the School of Art, Design and Media, University of Portsmouth, from 1992.

His book The Point Is to Change It! was included in a display at the Tate Liverpool's exhibition Art turning Left (2013) showing the role that art plays in changing society.

In October 2020, he hosted the podcast Introduction to Marx/Marxism, which he described as "a series of short introductions to the ideas of Marx/Marxism".

In his last years Molyneux also became involved in building an eco-socialist response to the climate crisis. He was one of the founders of the Global Ecosocialist Network.

He once wrote an article in the SWP's Internal Bulletin called "Democracy in the SWP", which argued that, though the SWP is democratic, it needs to be more so, prompting the Weekly Worker, the organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) to call him a "loyal rebel".

Molyneux remained a member of the loyal opposition in the SWP staying with the organisation in 2012-13 when the SWP faced a major crisis in then wake of an accusation of rape against a leading member.

Molyneux died suddenly in Dublin on 10 December 2022, at the age of 74.