Jean Brust News Today

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.

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Julie Hyland, a member of the International Editorial Board of the <em>World Socialist Web Site </em>and for many years the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by David Walsh and Joanne Laurier. Comrade Walsh is the arts editor of the <em>World Socialist Web Site </em>and Comrade Laurier is a major and regular contributor to the arts section of the website.

Barbara Slaughter, the longest-running active member of the International Committee of the Fourth International, paid tribute to the half-century-plus struggle of Comrade Helen to educate workers and young people in the international socialist principles of Trotskyism.

Comrade Helen played a central role in the Trotskyist movement, both in the United States and internationally, for more than half a century.

The Teamsters for a Democratic Union presents itself to workers as a rank-and-file organization. It is no such thing.

November 24 is the 25th anniversary of the death of Jean Brust (1921-1997), a founding member of the Workers League, the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, and a leading figure in the world Trotskyist movement.

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.

Marilyn Ann Johnson, passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 5, 2021, at her home in Stockton.