In a statement, the World Peace Council (WPC) reads:
The World Peace Council received with deep sadness the information about the demise of our beloved comrade Alfred Marder, veteran leader of the U.S. Peace Council and President of Honor, who passed away in the age of 102 years in his hometown, New Haven, Connecticut.
Our comrade Alfred was for all his life a fighter for peace and social justice, a dedicated communist from his youth times and a champion of the struggle for workers’ rights in the USA and worldwide. He faced and fought against the anti-communist witch hunting in the 1950s. As a genuine internationalist struggling in the USA he never lost the clear anti-imperialist orientation and class instinct. In his decades’ long service to the Peace Movement in the USA as President of the U.S. Peace Council but also internationally as part of the leadership of the WPC, Alfred never gave up the hopes and efforts, despite the difficulties and obstacles the movement faced. He contributed along with other veterans decisively to the reconstruction of the World Peace Council after the year 2000 when the character of the WPC was at stake.
For all comrades in the WPC who had the privilege to know and work with comrade Al, he was a source of inspiration and courage with his conviction that the ideals for which we stand will prevail and win. Alfred Marder served the WPC as Vice-President of the WPC for many years and as Member of the WPC Secretariat.
The WPC expresses its grief and conveys the condolences of the anti-imperialist peace movement to the U.S. Peace Council and to the family of Alfred Marder. His example and contribution will be remembered by the future generations in the WPC. The “gap” Alfred is leaving will be filled by the struggles to come, for a World of Peace and Social Justice, against imperialist wars and exploitation.
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