Highgate Cemetery - Corin REDGRAVE

Corin Redgrave is both an actor and left-wing political activist and having died in 2010 his body was buried in Highgate Cemetery.  Pretty amazing for someone to be involved in both such demanding careers, his political career begun with his elder sister Vanessa, where they were powerful members of the Workers' Revolutionary Party. Later, after its collapse, he was involved with the Marxist Party, founded by Gerry Healy.

The death of Gerry Healy in 1989 seemed to have heavily impacted the party, leading to its downfall and then eventual dissolution in 2004. Luckily, an archived Marxist party website is available here

In case the name didn't give it away, the party's values and ideologies surrounded those of Karl Marx and other communist figures, from their website, its stated their aims are to:

• a socialist society in which all citizens shall be free and equal; free from poverty, disease and ignorance; equal in the use and enjoyment of society’s wealth.  
• Our principles are the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  
• Our methods are peaceful and non-violent; we seek to change the world by inspiring, uniting and mobilising all progressive forces to put an end to the old, capitalist society based on exploitation and violence, and build the new, socialist society based on freedom, equality and peace.  
• Out theory is the theory of Marxism as developed by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, the Third International (1919-1922), the Left Opposition, the Fourth International, and the Workers Revolutionary Party (1973-1985).

The dissolution resulted in both Redgrave siblings founding the Peace and Progress party with the intention to campaign for human rights, rights of refugees and political dissidents.

The party launched in 2004 and demanded the removal of British troops from Iraq, British detainees from Guantanamo Bay and Third world debt being cancelled. The party urged support from the conservatives and did receive support from Anna Politkovskaya (wow that hurt to type), Azmat Begg (the father of Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg), who stood for the party at the 2005 general election in Birmingham Hodge Hill.Babar Ahmad who was wanted by the US authorities on terrorism charges stood in Brent North. 

The party, unfortunately, made little impact in the 2005 general elections where it can now be assumed that the party has been split, though there is no official source confirming this.

As if it's not evident enough, this man was very invested in politics leading to him becoming a leading figure within all parties he was involved in.

'Fearless actor and campaigner' is certainly what this 

amazing man would be wanted to remembered for!