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Roger Sutton: a champion of workers who never let go of the banner
From anti-apartheid work to uniting migrant workers, Sutton showed us how to build worker power, keeping socialism’s flame burning bright, and leaving London’s mighty May Day parade as his legacy, writes Phil Katz
AMONG COMRADES: Roger Sutton (third from right) in Paris catching a ride on the TGV
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THE loss of Roger Sutton, a key officer of the Greater London Association of Trades Councils (GLATUC) for over 43 years is a profound one for the labour movement. An honest, highly cultured, disciplined, and committed organiser, Sutton was dedicated to worker organisation, filling roles few could replicate. Like William Morris, of whom it was said he did the work of five men, the same was true of Sutton.
Sutton was both charming and fierce — when advocating for workers, always fair and democratic in his approach. A private individual, he kept his family and activist lives separate, often misunderstood as secretive.
He neither smoked nor drank, rarely socialising in pubs after meetings, which was standard for labour activists from the 1970s to the 1990s. I feel honoured to have fought alongside him for so long, sharing many experiences both in union struggles here and in internationalist activity.
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