Peter Camejo
Peter Camejo: A comment on the North American revolution (1984)
Originally published by the North Star Network (USA) as a discussion article on October 1, 1984.
Salvador Allende, Cuba and internationalism, 1970–73
Fidel Castro with Chile's President Salvador Allende upon his arrival at Pudahuel Airport in Santiago on November 10, 1971.
[For more articles by John Riddell, click HERE.]
By John Riddell
January 6, 2013 -- Johnriddell.wordpress.com, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the US-inspired rightist coup in Chile that overthrew the leftist government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. The coup was a historic disaster for working people in Latin America and globally. Socialists worldwide saw it coming. How did they attempt to counter this danger?
John Riddell on the US SWP: Part 1, SWP attempts an outward turn (1976–83)
Who or what killed the US SWP?
The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume I: The Sixties, a Political Memoir by Barry Sheppard, Resistance Books (Sydney), 2005, 354 pages.
The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume II: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988, a Political Memoir by Barry Sheppard, Resistance Books (London), 2012, 345 pages.
[For more discussion of the US SWP, click HERE.]
Review by Peter Boyle
Peter Camejo: Against sectarianism -- the evolution of the Socialist Workers Party, 1978-1983
AGAINST SECTARIANISM
The Evolution of the Socialist Workers Party 1978-1983
by Pedro (Peter) Camejo
Is democracy the enemy? A reply to Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek addresses Occupy Wall Street.
Making sense of Trotskyism in the United States: Two memoirs
[This review-essay was written for and is scheduled to appear in the British journal Revolutionary History, which has granted permission to circulate it on-line. Please include this acknowledgement when sharing it.
Barry Sheppard reviews Peter Camejo's `North Star -- A Memoir'
North Star – A Memoir
Peter Camejo remembered: tributes from the left
Below are number left tributes to Peter Camejo, who died on September 13: from Green Left Weekly (Australia); Ralph Nader, US presidential candidate; veteran US socialist Barry Sheppard; Socialist Worker (USA) and Louis Proyect, moderator of the Marxism List (USA).
As a tribute, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal has also republished two of Peter's most influential and enduring lectures (at http://links.org.au/node/625), talks that continue to educate young revolutionary socialists to this day.
Peter Camejo.
Peter Camejo interviewed in 1976
Peter Camejo is heard here speaking in 1976 on the NBC network when he stood for the US Socialist Workers Party as its presidential candidate.
Source: Jon Flanders.
The tragic news on September 13, 2008, that Peter Camejo had lost his battle with cancer is a blow to all those on the revolutionary left who have been politically and personally influenced by him.