Thread by @EricLondonSEP

THREAD

Twitter socialists: Have you ever heard of Tom Henehan?

He was a 26-year-old Trotskyist, member of the Workers League from Kalamazoo, Mich who was shot in a political assassination 40 years ago this week, 10/15/1977 in NYC. He died the next day.

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The @WSWS_Updates just posted a speech given by David North on the 20th anniversary of Tom Henehan's assassination. I strongly recommend everyone read it to learn who Comrade Tom was.

wsws.org/en/articles/20…

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Who killed Tom? The article notes:

The Workers League was involved in an historic investigation of the circumstances surrounding the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky, the founder of the Fourth International.

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This investigation, whose findings were published under the title Security and the Fourth International, exposed the decades-long efforts of the police agencies of imperialism and Stalinism to penetrate and sabotage the world Trotskyist movement.

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Among other things, the investigation revealed the insidious links between Joseph Hansen—who later became a leader of the American Socialist Workers Party—and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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In June 1977, Hansen and the SWP published a statement that warned of “deadly consequences” if the investigation continued. Shortly afterwards, Tom Henehan lay dead in a Brooklyn hospital.

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Tom's assassination went virtually unreported in the bourgeois press.

Don't let the ruling class erase Tom's legacy as a fighter for revolutionary politics in the heart of American capitalism!

Read the article and spread the word.

Rest in Peace Comrade Tom!

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