Vol. 75/No. 29      August 8, 2011

Richard Johnson, a fighter for Irish national freedom imprisoned in the United States for 10 years for “conspiracy” to violate the federal Arms Control Act, spoke at the event. When he was railroaded to prison in 1989, Johnson said, he got a letter from Inglee, whom he’d never met. “When you’re a political prisoner,” Johnson said, “contact from political people on the outside means a lot.” Inglee became a regular correspondent and visitor, as well as a lifelong friend and political collaborator.

Kathy Dunlap, a coworker of Inglee’s at Sears, said how much she enjoyed and appreciated the “political opinions he shared every day about everything.”

John Studer, from the Socialist Workers Party in nearby Philadelphia, noted that Inglee had been centrally involved in winning ballot status for SWP candidates in Delaware. In 2004, he said, state officials had kept the party’s presidential candidate off the ballot. But in 2008, with Inglee’s help and building on what had been achieved four years earlier, the party registered hundreds more people, and the SWP ticket of Róger Calero and Alyson Kennedy was placed on the ballot.

Last year, state lawmakers doubled the registration requirement for ballot status. “Roy was looking forward to fighting for the party’s spot in 2012,” Studer said.

Over the years, Studer said, Inglee had helped form a Young Socialist Alliance chapter at the University of Delaware; supported workers fights on the docks, at auto plants, and in poultry plants on the Delmarva Peninsula; built protests against U.S. imperialism’s wars; and carried out other political work. He was a well-known supporter in Delaware of the struggle to end British colonial rule of Northern Ireland and get all UK troops out.

At the time of his death, Inglee was a new member of the Print Project, working to keep Pathfinder Press books in print for workers joining the fight against capitalism’s deepening attacks.

The meeting to mark Inglee’s political life was organized by his companion K.B. Inglee and daughter Bodge, who chaired.  
 
 
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