1610 Harrison St.
Suite D
Oakland
Panelists:
Bob Mandel, founding member of the ILWU Militant Caucus; OEA Executive
Board (ret.) co-founder, Adult School Teachers United
Tom Riley, co-founder, with Howard Keylor, of the External Tendency of the
iSt / Bolshevik Tendency
Mary Jane Galviso, lifelong Marxist, Communist and comrade of Howard
Keylor; founding member, Filipino Farmers Cooperative and its parent
organization, the Rural Communities Resource Center
Howard Keylor was a long-time communist militant in International
Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10. A veteran of the Battle of Okinawa, he
made the motion in Local 10 for the 11 day strike of the Nedlloyd Kimberley in 1984
against South African apartheid. For twelve years, Howard was elected to the
Executive Board of Local 10 on an open class struggle program which described
the government as the “executive committee of the capitalists” and the class
collaborationist labor leadership as its tool.
The Howard Keylor Conference Room at the DSA offices is named in his
memory. To dedicate the conference room, Howard’s comrades present a panel on
his work, beginning with Howard quitting college to support Filipino agricultural
workers in the Stockton asparagus strike in 1948, the bi-coastal ILA/ILWU boycott
of Chilean cargo against Pinochet in 1974, to the three community pickets against
Zim ships for Palestine in 2014, and more.
Link to event:
bit.ly/3Chw5zC
To learn more about Howard’s life:
http://bit.ly/42953VH
Audio and video about Howard:
https://linktr.ee/howardkeylor