Harry Ring (1918 - April 18, 2007) was an American

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and a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party. Ring joined the communist movement in

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, he ran on the SWP ticket for

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. He wrote regularly for the party's

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-based newspaper, ''

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'', where he also had a weekly column called "The Great Society." Ring covered racial relations, the civil rights struggle, and the Vietnam War issues in his journalistic work, as well as himself taking an active part in the organizing of anti-war protests.Horowitz, Gus. "Harry Ring". ''Marxsite''. http://marxsite.com/Harry%20Ring.html Ring spent three months in

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in 1960 as a ''Militant'' reporter, writing about the

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. He remained in the SWP until his death in

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in 2007 at age 89, having been involved for over 71 years in the workers' movement.

Works by Harry Ring

Aside from his columns for ''The Militant'', Harry Ring has authored * ''Cuba and Problems of Workers' Democracy''. (New York:

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, 1972) * ''How Cuba Uprooted Race Discrimination''. (New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1961) * ''Socialism and Individual Freedom''. (New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1991)

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''The Militant'' (weekly paper of the Socialist Workers Party)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ring, Harry 1918 births 2007 deaths Activists for African-American civil rights American activists American anti–Vietnam War activists American male journalists 20th-century American journalists Marxist journalists Socialist Workers Party (United States) politicians from New York (state)