Harry Ring
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Harry Ring (1918 - April 18, 2007) was an American communist and a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party. Ring joined the Communist movement in Newark, New Jersey in 1936, and he served on the SWP’s National Committee from 1954 to 1981. He wrote regularly for the party's New York City-based newspaper, The Militant, where he also had a weekly column called "The Great Society." Ring spent three months in Cuba in 1960 as a Militant reporter, writing about the Cuban Revolution. He remained in the SWP until his death in Los Angeles in 2007 at age 89.