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We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard given by Cheryl Crisp, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party of Australia, to a memorial meeting for Comrade Helen held by the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the International Committee of the Fourth International on Sunday, December 3.

Workers and youth at Peradeniya University discuss upcoming meetings to be addressed by SEP(US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore, on “Leon Trotsky and the fight for socialism in the 21st century.”

The perspective of pressuring governments is a dead-end. Instead we need to build a movement of the working class against them and the system responsible for the genocide, capialism.

One of Helen’s oldest and closest comrades paid tribute to her unflagging attention to the education and training of the party membership, particularly the youth.

In a video interview, Kishore spoke about the significance of the meetings being held in Sri Lanka and the connection between the capitalist crisis and the history of the Trotskyist movement.

The SEG in Turkey held a public meeting in Istanbul on Sunday titled “Stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza! Socialist internationalism and the struggle against Zionism and imperialism.”

The SEP calls upon workers, youth and students in Sri Lanka and internationally to defend our party’s democratic right to freely engage in its political activities.

Starmer’s paragraph on Thatcher also praises how Tony Blair “reimagined a stale, outdated Labour Party into one that could seize the optimism of the late 90s”.

The anti-Trotskyist Workers’ Cause Party’s defense of the capitalist state finds its most reactionary expression in its embrace of Erdoğan and Putin as its rejects the program of world socialist revolution.

We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.