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 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 Jerry White, the labor editor of the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> and a leading member of the Trotskyist movement in the US and internationally for more than four decades.