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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).
After death of Walter Mondale, WSWS republishes 1972 article by Bill Brust 23 April 2021 Following the death of former Vice President Walter Mondale, the World Socialist Website is republishing a 1972 article by longtime Trotskyist and Workers League founding member Bill Brust, entitled “Stalinism and the Farmer-Labor Party of the 1930s.” Mondale, who died yesterday, was a member of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) who began his career supporting fellow DFL leader Hubert Humphrey’s campaign to purge members of the Communist Party from the Farmer-Labor Party. The Commu...
Walter Mondale (1928–2021) and the decline and fall of Democratic Party liberalism Former vice president Walter Mondale, who died Monday night at the age of 93, is a political figure indelibly associated with the collapse of American liberalism and the turn by the Democratic Party decisively to the right. As respectful obituaries in the corporate press noted, he was the last Democratic Party candidate for president to claim to be continuing the legacy of New Deal liberalism—although by 1984, when Mondale was routed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, this continuity was purely rhetoric...