A large hammer and sickle stood beside his coffin. In her eulogy, O’Neill’s partner, Kate Hudson, current general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and an officer of the Stop the War Coalition, said that “the collapse of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe for humanity”. In video footage hosted on the Socialist Action website, never before reported, Ms Hudson added that O’Neill believed that “those of us who understood that the [Russian] revolution was the greatest step forward that humanity had ever taken … had to unite together to continue this project … That goal [revolution] is as relevant and vital now as it was then … together we will advance.”