[Letter from Ray Markey to Jack Barnes]
By: Ray Markey
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Working class; Socialist Workers Party
Notes: Letter dated July 16, 1983.

"I hereby submit my resignation. I wanted to present my ideas to the party rank and file but you cancelled our convention because of a lawsuit ... or a convention would interfere with the necessary and relatively time consuming task of expelling comrades who thought your policies in recent years had needlessly isolated the party and was rapidly turning it into an irrelevant sect."-- Page [1].

Ray Markey is a long time political and movement activist. He was a participant in the fight for democratic rights in the labor movement, and ran for many political offices as a member of the Socialist Workers Party.