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.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Kate Randall, a member of the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> editorial board and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US for more than 50 years.