Community and Union Work
Enrico’s work with communities is widely recognised.
Prof Robert Moore:
I first saw Enrico in the later 1950s, when on Sunday afternoons I used to listen to Donald Soper at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park. The African League occupied the next soapbox and sometimes the adjacent speakers could both be heard advocating freedom for the colonies against a background of traffic noise and heckling. Enrico was there with the League.
It took some time for the ‘penny to drop’ but it was the same Enrico who was a founder member of the North Wales Regional Equality Network in the year 2000. I spent many enjoyable hours listening to his life story (or perhaps the stories of his many lives) and his political theory. Slowly I built up a picture of his amazing contributions over the intervening 50 years. His support and encouragement transformed the lives of many young people, especially in London and the West Midlands. Like so many inspired people Enrico could be very annoying and if one expressed agreement with him, he would be likely to argue the point!
A few weeks before his death I spent an hour or so with Enrico and Mary. Although Enrico was very ill and felt that his end was near, he was as argumentative as ever.
