(The following is translated from the April 8 issue of Rouge, the weekly newspaper of the Ligue Communiste, the French section of the Fourth International.]
The Ligue Communiste and the Fourth International have just lost a very valuable militant. Edith Beauvais was killed in an automobile accident near Valence.
Edith had come to revolutionary Marxism in Canada, her country of origin. She joined the Trotskyist movement during the early 1960s, when she was very young, and the Trotskyist nuclei were still the "pariahs" of the workers' movement.
A member of the Canadian organization (League for Socialist Action -
Ligue Socialiste Ouvrière), she participated actively in building the Qué- bec branch, working especially in Montréal.
In 1967, after a one-year stay in Cuba, she came to France and joined the Parti Communiste Internationaliste, then the French section of the Fourth International. Edith participated actively in building the
Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire, and later the Ligue Communiste. But the major part of her activity was devoted to international work, in the international commissions of the United Secretariat. Both the French and foreign comrades who worked with her knew her effectiveness and devotion. In losing her, we have lost a real revolutionary militant. We will continue her fight!