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Nader's Running Mate
By Cliff Kincaid Accuracy In Media Ralph Nader is under attack by liberals in the Democratic Party and the media who think his presidential run will siphon votes from John Kerry. On the other hand, former Republican Pat Buchanan ran an interview with Nader in his magazine, suggesting that conservatives might want to vote for Nader rather than Bush this November. But that interview ran before Nader picked Peter Camejo as his running mate. Most stories about Camejo have identified him as a businessman and Green Party activist. A few have noted he ran for president on the ticket of the Socialist Workers Party. But Max Friedman of the group, Historians of American Communism, has done the work on Camejo's background that the media did not. His research, published as a letter to the editor of the Washington Times, noted that, "Camejo was a Communist for decades." In addition to his work in the Socialist Workers Party, a party founded by Trotskyites, Friedman said that Camejo eventually showed up as an "endorser" of the "conference call" for a July 1992 affair known as "Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the '90s." Friedman explained that it was being held by a new group known as the Committee of Correspondence, formed out of the Communist Party USA. The story had been told in a Washington Times column by Joseph Goulden, formerly of Accuracy in Media. Another member of this new Marxist organization was Leslie Cagan, now leading the anti-Iraq war organization, United for Peace & Justice. Friedman said that Camejo had completed the radical-left circuit from "red" to "Green," or so it seemed. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-07-16 |
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