Ernest Mandel has passed away Ernest Mandel, a leader of the Fourth International and internationally known Marxist economist died yesterday in Belgium of a heart attack. He was 72 years old. Mandel had been in failing health for several years.
Cremation is today at a small family service.
In September, broader commemorative events are planned when his ashes will be moved to either Paris or Antwerp. Active throughout his illness, Mandel was working along with Swiss comrade Charles Andre Udry on a book analyzing the role of finance capital in today s global economy. He was able to attend the 14th World Congress of the FI which was held this June and intervened in his usual spirited and incisive fashion. He will be sorely missed, particularly by an entire generation of revolutionaries who came to Marxism and to the Fourth International in the heydey of the 1960s. He was our teacher.