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About Joe Verret
- Joe Verret (11 December 1945 – 30 March 2010) was an American Trotskyite who worked in civil rights in the South in the 1960s.
- Born in New Orleans, Verret was involved in founding the Spartacist League (US) in 1966, serving on the central committee.
- Prior to the formation of the Spartacist League, Verret was part of the American Socialist Organising Committee, which had split from the Socialist Party.
- Joe's Trotskyite work in the 1960s centred on New Orleans, involving the Southern Student Organizing Committee, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and civil rights protests.
- Verret's activities were an element of the Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities Report 9, on "The Spartacist League and Certain Other Communist Activities in South Louisiana." Verret achieved full membership of the Spartacist League Central Committee in 1969.
- Also in 1969, despite being an anti-war activist, Verret was drafted.
- Following the Spartacist line on war, Verret accepted the draft in order to serve alongside fellow workers.
- Verret was involved in the G.I.
- Voice newsletter supporting soldiers taking a class war position against the US state.
- The US Army reacted to Verret's politics by making him serve unusually long training, and through placing him in desk work in Vietnam.
- In 1976 Verret moved to London and played a role in the founding of the Spartacist League/Britain in 1978.
- In 1979 Verret was elected a member of the International Executive Committee of the now International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist).
- He also served as National Chairman of the Trotskyist League of Canada in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- In 1981 Verret returned to the US, where he led the Atlanta Local of the Spartacist League from 1983 until 1996.
- In 1996 he moved to Los Angeles. Verret left the Spartacist League in 2000 over a political matter, through continued work in left wing movements through being involved in the Prometheus Research Library.
- In 2009 the Spartacist League/US voted him honorary membership.
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