Poetic Obituaries: [John Rety] was once asked

when he had become an anarchist. "During the war in Budapest," he replied. "I think I was part of the resistance." Maybe he was not quite sure because he was only nine when the war began. On the day the war ended, in Budapest, his grandmother, who had looked after him when his Jewish parents went into hiding, approached a guard who had a Swastika armband and a rifle. "You can put those away now," she said. He shot her dead.

Later, living in England, John became editor of the anarchist paper Freedom and more recently the poetry editor of the communist daily the Morning Star (presumably old rifts between anarchists and communists had been healed).

from Financial Times: Tribute to a well-versed soul

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