DEATH OF JEANETTE OLSEN
From Norway we have received the sad news that Comrade Jeanette Olsen has died in Oslo after a long life of service to the socialist movement. Since 1900, when she was 27, she had been active in both the Norwegian and the international revolutionary movements. Even in her last years, when it was no longer possible for her to be she remained for the Norwegian Trotskyists the banner-bearer of the old revolutionary Marxist traditions, to which she remained loyal to the end of her days.
Jeanette Olsen was among the pioneers of the Norwegian labor movement. Even before the First World War, she was secretary of the Norwegian fishermen's union and a municipal councillor in Oslo. From 1918-1923 she was a member of the leadership of the Norwegian Labor Party, then in the Third International. As a delegate from this Party she participated in the Second and Third Congresses of the Communist International, when she had long distus Ni Pith The Interd Tonal. After her break of the
NLP from the Comintern, she became a leader and foundation member of the Communist Party of Norway, nember of the Central Committee and of the Political pamphlet with a mass circulation, the victims of the Moscow trials, on the basis of her own knowlegde of the lasers, sheldedared for Protodyism. the was she Saliniat Stalinist landers, she declared for epresentative of the Trotskyist group in Norway, an edito: f the paper October, published iointly by the Danish anc Norwegian Trotskyists The greatest events in the life of Jeanette Olsen were the Russian revolution and her meetings with its leaders, Lenin and Trotsky. With the death of Jeanette Olsen the international workers' movement has lost a remarkable personality, uniting the traditions of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals.
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