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.
Ten years ago, Comrade Dave Hyland, a leading figure in the British Trotskyist movement, died on December 8, 2013, at the age of 66. Below we republish the remarks of comrade North to a January 18, 2014, memorial meeting honouring comrade Hyland.
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.