Hello Left Linkers Some of you may personally have met and worked with or know of the political work of Canadian Trotskyist, Joe Flexer who died this week on the picket line. Harry Paine, organiser for the Freedom Socialist Party in Winnipeg, is hosting a gathering this Friday evening, 3 August to remember Joe and his contribution to the working class movement. If any of you would like to send a message, please e-mail Harry Paine direct. Yours in solidarity Alison Thorne Freedom Socialist Party International Executive Committee Coordinator ---------- From: Harry Paine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Henry Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Sad day for socialism Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:17:56 -0500 Dear Comrades, This afternoon I received the sad news that Joe Flexer had finally succumbed to the heart condition that had plagued him for the last 14 years. He died where he would have wanted to be more than anywhere else, on the picket line. His CAW brothers and sisters at Catapillar Tractor in Toronto, went on strike last week and had called him out of retirement to lead them in their struggle. Joe came to revolutionary Marxism in the sixties and had never ceased to be in the forefront of workers struggles where ever they took place. He spent a number of years living in Isreal after the war of independence where he had gone like so many others from the United States to follow the dream that this new nation would become the beginning of a new socialist paradise. Disillusioned, he returned to the US and quickly came to Marxism. He moved to Winnipeg and helped found the first Trotskyist branch here. Over the years his expertise on Middle Eastern affairs became renown throughout Canada. But first and foremost Joe was a working class militant. He was never more brilliant than when he was arguing the case of some worker's grievance before the bosses. The comrades of Socialist Action have suffered a real loss for he was a big factor in keeping them on the straight and narrow. Comradely, Harry Freedom Socialist Party 2-184 Evanson Street Winnipeg Mb R3G 2A3 Ph: (204) 772-0068/(204)783-6918 Fax: (204) 783-1884 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: <http://www.socialism.com> "PRIMERO DEJAR DE SER, QUE DEJAR DE SER REVOLUCIONARIO" -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
