Posted on 08/08/2006 4:47:23 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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.
Healey, dubbed "the Red Queen of Los Angeles" by headline writers during her heyday, died Sunday of pneumonia in the Greater Washington Hebrew Home, said her son, Richard. She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983.
The diminutive Healey, who stood just under 5 feet tall and once wore a pendant that pictured a clenched fist raised as a symbol of solidarity and militancy, fought a lifelong battle against what she called the oppression of the middle class and minorities.
"She was a heartfelt revolutionary of her time," Donna Wilkinson, the widow of national civil liberties leader Frank Wilkinson, told The Times on Monday. "She was always so fiercely partisan for working people. Yes, of course, she cared about war and peace and women's issues, but she was always concerned about working people."
The daughter of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Healey was born in Denver on Sept. 22, 1914. Her father was a traveling salesman, and the family moved from Denver to California when she was 6. Constantly on the move because of her father's work selling smoked meat and cheese, Healey attended 19 schools. Her father died when she was 16.
Healey, whose Socialist mother was a founding member of the Communist Party in America, joined the Young Communist League in 1928, when she was 14.
"I joined the Young Communist League out of a feeling of hate and love," she told an audience at Golden West College in Huntington Beach in 1977. "I hated the system that reduced all humans to a feeling of total helplessness . . .
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But but but! McCarthy was wrong, there were no Communists in the USA. < /sarcasm >
"Married and divorced three times, Healey moved from Los Angeles to Washington to be near her son, who, along with two grandsons, survives her".
Doesn't sound like a whole lot for a person in their 90's.
Cause of death?
Her family was taken in by this country and she returned her hate in "gratitude". Good riddance to this nasty old bat and other fellow travelers, who undoubtedly never had a good word to say about this country and never added a decent thing to it.
Communists dedicate their lives to destroying the capitalism that creates jobs. For some reporter to moon over this old dame, yapping that she fought for the working man, is beyond insanity.
Perhaps she's having a nice visit with Fidel just now. I'm sure they have lots to talk about.
LOL
No. That would be asking too much of the nitwit.
Good riddance, subhuman commie-fascist bitch. Rot in hell!
HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is a beautiful commentary. so poetic...thanks, i'll second it!
Now, tell me how you really feel about her?
First off I HATE the term "working people" as if what I do isn't "work" in their mind.
According to these people, since I am "white collar," this place I spend 50 plus hours a week at isn't "work."
She was a Democratic Congresswoman?
He should have sold that yummy sausage that folks lined up around the block for in Moscow.
So why were you a Commie?
Not too bright of a woman, apparently.
She died the same month as Castro. How appropriate.
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