The Jack Barnes eulogy of his long time SWP comrade Dave Prince throws some light on the degenerate " Trotskyism " rooted party's descent into ZIONISM [“We discussed the importance of Israel’s fight to stop the rulers in Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and expanding their arsenal of ballistic missiles and drones

]‘The apple of his eye’ In closing his remarks, Barnes briefly described a visit with Dave and Vivian at the hospital where he was receiving care. As to be expected, Barnes said, before anything else Dave wanted to talk about a passage in Lenin’s Imperialism that he correctly thought shed light on the U.S. government’s military buildup in the Middle East. That was several weeks before Washington launched its all-out air war against Iran. “We discussed the importance of Israel’s fight to stop the rulers in Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and expanding their arsenal of ballistic missiles and drones. And the party’s unconditional demand, ‘U.S. imperialism out of the Middle East!’” Prince was also following with great interest the strikes by some 15,000 nurses for three large hospital corporations in New York City. And, of course, Barnes said, Prince wanted to know how the work and campaigns of the party and world movement were doing. ] [NEW YORK — “Above all, Dave Prince was a Marxist, a working-class revolutionist,” Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, told participants at a March 22 event here celebrating Prince’s life and political contributions building a proletarian party in the United States. Sharing the platform were SWP leaders and co-chairs of the meeting, Mary-Alice Waters and Paul Mailhot, along with six other speakers. The celebration, sponsored by the party’s Northern New Jersey and New York branches, was attended by 160 people. Dave Prince, a central leader of SWP and its international work, speaks in Auckland, New Zealand, Sept. 24, 2022, celebrating merger of Communist League forces in Sydney, Australia. Militant/Terry Coggan [ Dave Prince, a central leader of SWP and its international work, speaks in Auckland, New Zealand, Sept. 24, 2022, celebrating merger of Communist League forces in Sydney, Australia. Prince, who joined the SWP in Cleveland in 1965, died on Jan. 25 at age 82, after a long battle against cancer. A member of the party’s National Committee since 1977, he shouldered a wide variety of central leadership responsibilities for the SWP’s party-building activity and international work. He helped organize and lead the financing of the party nationally, as well as the editorial preparation, printing, and circulation of books on working-class politics and program.] Dave Prince: Marxist, revolutionary working-class leader of the SWP New York meeting of 160 celebrated Prince’s life and political contributions over six decades By Steve Clark and John Studer Vol. 90/No. 20 May 25, 2026 ]