The media eulogies of the former president, who died Sunday, are silent on his initiation of a frontal assault on the working class and, above all, his effort to smash the 1977-78 coal miners’ strike by invoking the Taft-Hartley Law.
Everyone who knew and worked with Larry waves a fond and sad goodbye to an outstanding representative of the international working class—and an all-around decent and good person.
The adulation for Locke from the New Zealand political establishment is because of his role as a leading member of the anti-Trotskyist Socialist Action League in the 1970s and 1980s, which sought to tie workers to the Labour Party and block the development of a genuine revolutionary movement.
Wolfgang Weber was an outstanding fighter who devoted his entire life to the service of the working class and the preparation of the socialist revolution.
She had little time for celebrity, saying: “One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act and one’s still acting.”
Drawing the lessons of the betrayals of Stalinism and the trade union bureaucracies Vernon joined the Trotskyist movement in a period when workers suffered grave defeats.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
Helen was a product of the party’s fight for Trotskyism and against national opportunism—Stalinism, black nationalism, the labour and trade union apparatus and the various manifestations of Pabloite liquidationism—a conscious and fully committed fighter for the political independence of the working class.
Helen Halyard, a leader of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, died suddenly on November 28 at the age of 73.
Over decades, Pilger exposed imperialist wars and intrigues, defended democratic rights and was unerring in his hostility to reporters who functioned as stenographers of governments.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Kate Randall, a member of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US for more than 50 years.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Liz Smith, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the UK.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Nancy Hanover, a writer and editor for the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US for more than four decades.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Laura Tiernan, a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party in Britain and writer for the World Socialist Web Site.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Jerry White, the labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site and a leading member of the Trotskyist movement in the US and internationally for more than four decades.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Clara Weiss, the national secretary of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US) and member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Julie Hyland, a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and for many years the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Tony and Tania Hyland, long-time members of the British Trotskyist movement.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by David Walsh and Joanne Laurier. Comrade Walsh is the arts editor of the World Socialist Web Site and Comrade Laurier is a major and regular contributor to the arts section of the website.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Ulrich Rippert, the former national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party of Germany (Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei) and founding member in 1971 of its predecessor, the League of Socialist Workers (Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter).
