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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.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Paul Sherman, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US.
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).
Ten years ago, Comrade Dave Hyland, a leading figure in the British Trotskyist movement, died on December 8, 2013, at the age of 66. Below we republish the remarks of comrade North to a January 18, 2014, memorial meeting honouring comrade Hyland.
Comrade Helen played a central role in the Trotskyist movement, both in the United States and internationally, for more than half a century.