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We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard given by Fred Mazelis at the memorial meeting on December 3. Fred was a founding member of the Workers League, the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party, in 1966.
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.
“There’s been no greater time for the building of an anti-war movement. Capitalism has no answer to the needs of the population. All it has is austerity policies.”
The following are the remarks by Barbara Slaughter, the longest active member of the Fourth International, to the December 10 rally, “For a Mass Movement of Students and Youth to Stop the War in Ukraine!” organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.