Gusty Trainor celebrates 50 years for socialism
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BOSTON-Some 50 friends and com -rades of Gusty Trainor celebrated her 50th Gusty Trainor told those present that she year in the revolutionary movement on couldn't understand why everyone was making such a fuss about the event. "I was Gusty recalled how she was inspired to just a rank-and-filer," she said. And a rankjoin the Trotskyist movement by Dr. and-filer she was, available for any task the Antoinette Konikow. In 1938 she worked movement needed doing. She was a hard to help prepare the food for a domestic worker, a stitcher in a shoe celebration the early American Trotskyists factory, a worker in a war plant and, more were organizing to commemorate Koni - recently, a key-punch operator in a hospital kow's 50th year in the revolutionary Gusty and her husband Larry, who died in Konikow was a veteran socialist leader 1975, were asked to live in Coyoacán, and a pioneer in the fight for the right to Mexico, in 1940 to be part of the team abortion and birth control. She was one of organized to defend the life of Leon Trotsky the founders of the Left Opposition organized by Leon Trotsky to challenge the She was a dedicated activist in the Stalin-led bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. Socialist Workers Party until last year, "Antoinette said to me," Gusty proudly when she retired from the SWP in remembered, "'Gusty, I hope you too will disagreement with the party's course away choose to devote 50 years of your life to May 10. Gusty added, " And I did." clinic.
against Stalin's assassins. the movement." And with just a bit of her Italian, working-class wit and modesty, courtesy Spark.
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from its original traditions.
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of the '60s and '70s.