THE LABOUR movement in the United States in particular the socialist movement general has every reason to mourn the death of Far. rell Dobbs, who died on 31 October at the age of 76.
Dobbs became active in socialist politics as a result of the strikes recognition in yards in Minneapolis 1934.
Writing later of that strike another American Trotskyist, James P Cannon, "dispatcher""* In strike was a young man called Farrell Dobbs. He came out of a coal yard in Minneapolis into the union and the strike, then into the strike won union recognition in a city previously notorious for being a non-union town.
Dobbs not only built up the Teamsters Urganise course that wage account.
for union the coal up the serious. way, in bullied bureaucracy.
He knew learn from said: The the Trotsky.
He later That Min- worked for drivers. But many other once they ties expense first and struggle in to be three by the the workers ing with and their League.
people, Dobbs SWP, later plaining becoming its secretary. They were really tough days when even to press a liberal opinion ose you your job and Dobb the smal bands socialists who held their party together during those times deserve every credit.
When the class struggle took an upturn in the early sixdefending the Kusan and Viet- Dobbs active namese revolutions and gave his unstinting support to the civil rights movement.
Farrel wrote five books, Revolutionary Continuity 1918-22.
I was very lucky that when Dobbs visited Britain in 1956 e stayed with me in Liverpo for a few days. t that time th Communist deep crisis as a result of the Party was Kruschev revelations and was discussing with a group of young worker militants who were in the Young Communist Dobbs spent hours discussing with these young explaining Marxist ideas and above all else exinternationalism:
Essentially a modest and gentle person, they had to literally