MONTREAL — Joyce Meissenheimer, 96, a member and cadre of the Communist League in Canada for almost 50 years, died in Calgary June 7 of heart failure. Before coming to Canada, Meissenheimer was a fighter against the apartheid regime in…
LONDON — “Jim Spaul came to recognize more is needed to emancipate the working class than militant trade unionism, as important as that is,” Communist League Central Committee member Jonathan Silberman told a March 31 meeting here to celebrate 76-year-old…
LONDON — Jim Spaul, a leader of the Communist League, died here suddenly March 6, after battling a debilitating illness from working in the mines. A three-decades-long veteran of the communist movement, Spaul shouldered a range of leadership responsibilities, including…
Leaders of Communist Leagues in four countries — sister parties of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. — sent messages to the celebration of Nan Bailey’s political life. Below are excerpts from those messages, as well as from several…
LOS ANGELES—”Selfless, disciplined, and loving to a fault, Nan Bailey remained true to her revolutionary convictions every day of her adult life,” wrote Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, in his message to a celebration of her…
Below is the letter from Jack Barnes, National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, read to the celebration by Norton Sandler. December 30, 2018 To friends, family, and comrades gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate the life of Nan Bailey:…
LOS ANGELES — Nan Bailey, 66, a leader and cadre of the Socialist Workers Party for 50 years, died here Dec. 12 after a 15-year battle with chronic lung disease. A meeting to celebrate her contributions to building the SWP…
LOS ANGELES — “Wendy Lyons was a central leader of the Socialist Workers Party for many years. She was a political leader of the working-class movement in this country,” Norton Sandler, speaking on behalf of the SWP National Committee, told…
LONGVIEW, Wash. — Some 500 people gathered at the Cowlitz County Event Center here July 6 to celebrate the life of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 member Byron Jacobs. Jacobs was killed June 28 when a line on…
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles branch of the Socialist Workers Party will host a meeting July 15th to celebrate the 55-year political life in the party of Wendy Lyons. Lyons, 73, died on June 16 after a long battle…
