THREE HUNDRED and forty people participated in the Ernest Mandel memorial rally and symposium two weeks ago.
Many of Ernest's friends and comrades came to the rally and a smaller, slightly younger, audience attended EDITORIALS sium, which conducted a serious of detalled discussions on the contributions made to Marxism made by Mandel and the Fourth international.
Billed rally speakers Taria Ali, Robin Blackburn, Charlie van Gelderen and Alan Thornett were joined by three leading Fourth Internationalists, Terry Conway, Penny Duggan and Francois VerAlan Thorett, Anne Conway, Terry Conway and Tariq All cammen. Anne Conway, of the irish section of the lution, Anne Conway linked Fourth international, was the Irish struggle to Bosnia's particularly warmly wel- struggle for self-determinacomed to the platform.
cussed the strengthening of of two surviving founders of the Fi through its feminist the Fourth International in politics and the effort, much supported by Mandel. to 19so, openeo une miesting recalling Mandel's life. Not- baild revolutionary youth oring Mandel's work on the ganisations and common strategy of permanent revo- work between them, like its camp. Tariq Ali, former editor of Socialist Challenge, recalled how Mandel was a link between the generation of leaders of the Fourth International in the 1970s, and the experiences of the early Like the rally, the symposium's meetings were hon### Phate: Simon Kennedy est and good-hearted, with a high level of discussion and presentation. Some people became Socialist Outiook sellers after the symposium, and others joined the Fourth International's Supporters' Association. Ernest would have warmly approved: it was a modest but real step national in Britain.
It also marked a real advance for the Ernest Mandel Memorial Fund. The fund aims to raise over E3,000 towards the costs of building an Ernest Mandel Study Centre and helping to secure the publications of the Fourth innational Viewpoint and Inprecor para Latin America.
So far, over £1,000 is in for the Memorial Fund -mainly from donations at the rally. The Fund ends in December, when leaders of the Fourth International's sections in Europe meet in the Amsterdam building which will house the Ernest Mandel • Socialist Outlook readers and supporters groups around Britain plan to raise nearly £400 a week to complete the fund by 3 December. Make your donation payable to 'Ernest Mandel Memorial Fund and post to EMMF, PO Box 1109. London N4 2UU.
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