{"id":66951,"date":"2022-02-08T00:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=66951"},"modified":"2022-10-01T15:29:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T15:29:03","slug":"66951-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/66951-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A friend, fighter and internationalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>With great sadness and pride, I write Peter Windeler&#8217;s obituary. We send our condolences to Peter&#8217;s wife, son, grandchildren, his two sisters and brother.<\/i><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By Martin Ralph &#8211; International Socialist League<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It was shocking to receive the news that Peter died peacefully in his sleep in the early hours, 30 January. He was 70 years old and had been awaiting an ultrasound scan for his heart as some tests had picked up an irregular heartbeat. He was very fit and never complained of illness or tiredness. <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A few hours before he died, at about 7.30 pm Saturday, we were texting about the next ISL meeting. In the afternoon, he had played lacrosse \u2013 a physically demanding team sport. He recently sent an article on Covid, &#8220;Covid \u2013 deadly profitable&#8221;, published on the litci.org\/en website. Two days before that, he spoke on behalf of Stockport Trades Council at a &#8220;Stand Up To Racism&#8221; meeting dedicated to the holocaust and all people who had suffered genocide. There is a live video recording of the meeting, and Peter spoke very well.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In January, we had talked about the possibility of attending the International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggle meeting to be held in Dijon in April \u2013 Stockport TUC delegated him. <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Peter was very active and never tired of reading and studying Marxism, its history and theory, and he often read novels that dealt with struggle.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Peter was born in Stockport. As a student, he joined the WRP in London and moved back to work in Manchester. Later he was a founder member of the ISL.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">His first job was working<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> in Ardwick, Manchester, at the Avon Moseley Rubber factory, owned by the Moseley family. Many of those who had worked there for years had backs misshaped from years of toil. They worked in cellars winding by hand large machines which made the rubber compounds to make synthetic rubber. He used to say conditions in the factory Charles Dickens would have recognised. After that job, Peter worked in a bank before becoming a teacher many years later.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter was a stalwart of the ISL; he attended almost every branch meeting, he could write an article nearly every week for the Socialist Voice or the website. From 2018 he started travelling to IWL international meetings in Belgium and Spain as part of the ISL team. <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Because of Covid, all the ISL comrades got to know him, as we started zoom meetings as soon as Covid began.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The struggle to build the IWL and rebuild the Fourth International was part of his life. <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the future, we will produce a special issue of Socialist Voice on his life and contribution to the ISL, the struggle for Marxism and the workers&#8217; and oppressed struggle.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-66953\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Peter_in_belgium-300x149.jpeg?resize=421%2C209\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"209\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>A few of the messages about Peter<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We thank the International Workers League &#8211; Fourth International leaders and members and the contacts and sympathisers who knew Peter for wonderful messages of condolences from three continents. We have forwarded all messages to Peter&#8217;s wife, Sue and son.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">________________<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Danny: &#8220;Oh, wow. That&#8217;s awful, just awful. I never met Peter in person (only on zoom), but he was a gent and a bit of a quiet powerhouse. Sad, sad news. Rest in power.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">________________<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Margarido: &#8220;I just can&#8217;t believe it. I met Peter, and he was just what Danny said and more. I don&#8217;t know what to say. We lost one of us. My condolences to his family.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">________________<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ashley: &#8220;Peter was a great socialist and revolutionary, we would often talk during the car journey to meetings, events etc., not just about politics, but also history and personal interests in our private lives. I always greatly enjoyed our talks together; I will greatly miss Peter, a dedicated comrade and friend.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">________________<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">John Pearson is a close contact, &#8220;I had known Peter since 1997 when we were founder members of Stockport Socialist Alliance. He was one of the most principled socialists and dependable and caring comrades I have known. I will miss him greatly.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">_____________<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Dawn Taylor, Secretary of Stockport Branch, National Education Union: <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Stockport has lost a great campaigner, and the voice of international social justice will be lesser without him.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">_____________<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Alison Treacher, President of Stockport Trades Union Council<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;He was a very knowledgeable comrade and knew so much about socialist history. His passing is a great loss to the movement.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">____________<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Belgium comrades: &#8220;It is with deep sadness that we have learned of the death of our comrade Peter. We send our condolences to his family, friends and comrades of the International Socialist League.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We remember him as an extremely gentle, caring and enthusiastic comrade. Peter was a discreet and generous comrade who spoke with equal passion about his work, political situation, and fishing trips in his native Scotland, which shaped his incredible accent.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He had come to Belgium in 2018 and 2019 during the North European meetings of the IWL, where we discussed the political situation with comrades from France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Russia. Then comrades of the LCT met him again at the meeting in Spain on trade unions and the revolutionary party, where it was again an opportunity to exchange and benefit from his political experience and his practice of revolutionary internationalism.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter&#8217;s loss is even more difficult because it is sudden. He has gone without warning, leaving us orphaned of a valuable comrade who is already sorely missed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter, you will live on in our memories and each of our struggles,<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter Windeler, present!<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ligue Communiste des Travailleurs,<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Matthieu&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">______________<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Margaret McAdam<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8220;I read the message from Sue Windeler about the death in his sleep of her husband Peter \u2013 initially I could make no sense of the words, but as they blurred into realisation my&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">thoughts, condolences and sympathy reached out to Sue, their son and grandchildren and Peter\u2019s siblings.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Peter was a quiet and sensitive, considerate person with a keen sense of humour, he was a private person and yet very public in his politics and his principles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I think also of our loss, he was our comrade and our confidante. I can picture Peter now, in his smart suit and tie, a classy Trotskyist who would have been a match for Trotsky himself in his style.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Peter dedicated his adult political life to the fight for socialism. He was well-read in the writings of our historical teachers Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky. Peter keenly studied class struggle history recognising its importance as a tool to be to understand, analyse and develop the tools to build a socialist programme for the world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">He was also an avid reader of contemporary literature and regularly developed serious analyses and critiques of contemporary bourgeois journalists and analysts. Peter selflessly shared his knowledge, ideas and thoughts in his discussions and writings. In his last article, he wrote about how Covid exposed the absolute degeneration of capitalism \u2013 it was well researched and thorough and Peter clearly exposed the contradictory nature of capitalism.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Peter jointly worked with Martin Ralph writing for the International Socialist League publication Socialist Voice and on reproducing the writings of Bill Hunter (who led the ISL from 1988-2015).<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lacrosse and fishing were two of Peters\u2019 passions which helped him remain not just a very smart, committed and principled Trotskyist but a very fit Trotskyist too. We have yet to learn of the cause of Peter\u2019s death but we can be certain that if there were such a thing as an afterlife he would be with all the great Trotskyists who have gone before, fighting for socialism and organising a Lacrosse match and a fishing trip.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Peter was well respected and admired in the international (International Workers League FI) and will be deeply missed by us all. The ISL knows we have suffered a great loss \u2013 but Peter will always be here \u2013 he contributed to building our consciousness\u2019 in the knowledge that we are building a better world and better future.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Peter lives on \u2013 socialism always.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With great sadness and pride, I write Peter Windeler&#8217;s obituary. We send our condolences to Peter&#8217;s wife, son, grandchildren, his two sisters and brother. By Martin Ralph &#8211; International Socialist League It was shocking to receive the news that Peter died peacefully in his sleep in the early hours, 30 January. 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