Firsty Murray and now this?  Sad, sad, sad.  In the march of time we are lately losing so many of the people who carried radicalism onward from the popular front.  Another guy who died in poverty and obscurity recently ws clinton jencks, the mineworker organizer who played himself in the salt of the earth.  Mike Davis told me all these cool stories about dorothy healey, she used to kick him out of meetings for being an 'anarcho-trotskyite' and then later that night have him over to her house to eat tv dinners and talk about labor.  Sigh.  Noam Chomsky, however, I am pretty sure has acheived a dick van dyke like immortality through sheer intellectual effort. What is it they say, at radicals funerals?  "Presente!" <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Los Angeles Times - August 8, 2006 OBITUARIES Dorothy Healey, 91; Lifelong Communist Fought for Working People By Dennis McLellan Times Staff Writer Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator who was chairwoman of the Southern California district of the Communist Party USA from the late 1940s through the 1960s, has died. She was 91. </blockquote></div>