B.C. MARXIST INTELLECTUAL CAME OF AGE DURING TURBULENT ERA OF PROTEST; He wrote books about Poland's Solidarity trade union, premier Bill Bennett, and life as a gay man in Vancouver during the emergence of the AIDS epidemic, as well as writing poetry chapbooks, newspaper columns and book reviews

Byline: TOM HAWTHORN; Special to The Globe and Mail Stan Persky, who has died at 83, was British Columbia's philosopher jester. A book reviewer for this newspaper once described him [...]