after standing down as a councillor, levitas became a market trader, working in dunstable, although he continued to live in the east end. he remained active in the cpgb, eventually joining its communist party of britain (cpb) split, and also in local tenants' and pensioners' groups, and anti-racism campaigns. he retired from work when he was eighty, but continued campaigning. in 2002, he unveiled a plaque in dublin marking the site of the camden street synagogue and tailors' and pressers' union. in 2013, he addressed a rally opposing the english defence league, and when he was 99, he led a campaign against high repair bills at his flats on sidney street.