[Marxism] Harry Ring, Presente!

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Thanks to Louis for posting this to the SWP list.)
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Harry Ring, Presente!

Having known Harry Ring for over 45 years as an
activist in the Socialist Workers Party, for 
whom he wrote innumerable columns, articles and
more, he will be remembered by many as author
of How Cuba Uprooted Race Discrimination, an
early pamphlet in defense of the Revolution in 
Cuba. Harry had been phyically frail for quite
some time, but attended political events with
remarkable consistency, probably until he could
no longer physically get there. The last time 
and place I saw him was at a Militant Labor 
Forum at the Pathfinder headquaters in Los Angeles.

Walter Lippmann
Havana, Cuba
"Un paraiso bajo el bloqueo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/

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Harry Ring, communist militant
for 71 years

Harry Ring, in late 1960s, during movement against Vietnam War.
April 18, Harry Ring, an internationalist cadre and leader of the
Socialist Workers Party for more than seven decades, died at a Los
Angeles hospital last night. He was 89 years old.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Ring graduated from high school in 1936
and joined the communist movement there a few months later. He was
active in the Workers Alliance of America, an organization fighting
for the rights of the unemployed, like himself, and campaigning
against racism, bigotry, and fascism.

Along with other communists who had been functioning for a couple of
years as part of a left wing in the Socialist Party and its youth
group, Ring was among those who took part in founding the Socialist
Workers Party in January 1938. He served as a member of the SWP
National Committee from 1954 to 1981.

Ring was part of the Militant staff from 1952 to 1989, spending much
of his political life as a revolutionary journalist. He was the
paper's editor for several years beginning in 1968, and then, from
1971 to 1978, its Southwest bureau head, based out of Los Angeles.

Inspired by his older brother, a longtime working writer for a New
York City daily, Ring often said how useful it would be for every new
member of the Militant staff to serve a six-month apprenticeship on
the New York Daily News before starting work. By his own example, he
tried to demonstrate the inseparability of disciplined professionalism
and socialist clarity in the effort to make understandable a paper
published in the interests of the working class.

Ring launched the Militant's "Great Society" column and wrote it from
1968 until shortly before his death. His last byline appeared in the
April 2 issue.

A meeting to celebrate Ring's life and political contributions will be
held soon. For more information and to send messages to this event,
contact the Los Angeles SWP branch at 4229 S. Central Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90011. Fax: (323) 233-9372. E-mail: laswp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ÂARGIRIS MALAPANIS AND MARY-ALICE WATERS



Walter Lippmann
Havana, Cuba
"Un paraiso bajo el bloqueo"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
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