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).
More than 150 workers and young people joined the meeting to discuss the way forward for the working class in the fight to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Helen Halyard was a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party (US), who fought for the perspective of Trotskyism throughout her entire adult life–more than 50 years. She died suddenly on November 28, 2023, at the age of 73.
This lecture was given by <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> International Editorial Board Chairman David North at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.