A Friend and Comrade Passes

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By Marilyn McQuerrey Hunter

When Scott Dutton of Seattle, Washington, died in early December a voice for clarity and understanding about the current economic and political system passed from among us. As a young man, Scott had taken to the streets alongside others of his generation to express his anger and frustration with war and discrimination. Channeling some of that energy into study and research with friends and comrades, he made his contribution to the building of a core of revolutionaries in the United States. He devoted his life to his family, including a large extended family, and to representing workers and others confronted by the unfairness of the U.S. legal system. His commitment to sharing his understanding with others never left him. In the last decade of his life, it led him to begin a book about how the Democratic Party has betrayed the needs of the working class and why revolutionary change is needed in our country and the world. Only death ended that commitment. He expressed his on-going support for the efforts of the People’s Tribune in a significant posthumous donation. Echoing the words of the letter received after his death, we salute Scott with his last words: “Be well, old friend. Up the revolution!”

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