I am writing this as a possible correction because I  received an obit that Eric never formally left the Communist Party of Great Britain.  Given the positions that he took and his later political involvements(and the fact that in the times that I spoke with him when he was here he didn't speak about the Communist Party of Great Britain) I assumed that he did at some time after 1968, but  this may be incorrect. 

Since I have time, I might also Eric Hobsbawm's last works, On Empire: America War and Global Supremacy(2008) and a work that I have not yet read but will when I can get hold of it,  a collection of essays, How to Change the World, Marx and Marxism, 1848-2011(2011) published last year

I would also like to think that one day historians like Phil Foner and Herb Aptheker will be treated even by those who disagree with them in the U.S. with same respect that Eric Hobsbawm has received, although all awards that they might receive would be posthumous.

Norman Markowitz