By the editors OUR QUÉBECOIS comrade, Michel Lafitte, recently summed up how many socialists and revolutionaries will remember Ernest Mandel, who died on July 20 this year: "He was familiarly called 'Uncle Ernest'... but never to his face.
"For all of the generation which really made up the leadership of the Fourth International and its sections In the 1960s and 1970s, he was our tutor and leader.
"For most people outside the movement he was. above all, the most independent and creative marxist economist since the war. Bue for us young comrades he was primarily a political leader - an indefagitable militant of the Fourth International and its Belgian section."
A rally and international sympo. sium in London this month will attempt to discuss Ernest's place in the history of the marxist movement • as one of the great revolutionary think. ers of the post-war period.
Charlie van Gelderen, a founder of the Fourth International, supplies the major article in this memorial issue of theory proctice. Together with the solections of Ernest's wrtings in this issue, we hope it develops that dis. cussion and allows us to better un. derstand Ernest Mandel's lasting contribution to marxism. SPEAKERS CONFIRMED: Ernest Mandel Memorial Rally Tarig Ali, Robin Blackburn, Ann Conway, Penny Duggan, Charlie van Gelderen, Duncan Hallas, Alan Thornett, Francois Vercammen.
7.00pm Friday 13 October Ernest Mandel Memorial Fund, PO Bo Photo:Ernes MandaiFoundation 1109, London N4 2UU.