Socialist Workers Party Correspondence Collection SPC.2022.001
Jennifer Hill
Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills
2022-10-28
University Library South - 5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000
Carson, California 90747
Business Number: 310-243-3895
archives@csudh.edu
Contributing Institution:
Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills
Title: Socialist Workers Party Correspondence Collection
Creator:
Camejo, Peter
Creator:
Lippmann, Walter
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2022.001
Physical Description:
1 box
Physical Description:
.21 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): August 21, 1937; September 15, 1971-August 18, 1989
Abstract: This collection includes correspondence from former Socialist Workers Party members, Pedro Camejo and Walter Lippmann. Also
included are materials related to the Third Emergency National Conference (ENC), the Fit Conference, 1981 city elections,
and other Socialist Workers Party related material.
Language of Material:
English
.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection is a Gerth Archives and Special Collections library aquisition (2022).
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in two series. Series I: Pedro Camejo contains letters and other documents related to Pedro Camejo.
Series II : Walter Lippmann contains letters and documents related to Walter Lippmann, the Third Emergency Conference, and
material related to the Socialist Workers Party.
Processing Information
This collection was processed in October 2022 by Jennifer Hill.
Preferred Citation
Related Materials
Scope and Contents
The Socialist Workers Party Correspondence Collection (August 21, 1937; September 15, 1971-August 18, 1989) includes 0.21
linear feet of correspondence from former Socialist Workers Party members, Pedro Camejo and Walter Lippmann. Also included
are materials related to the Third Emergency National Conference (ENC), the Fit Conference, 1981 city elections, and other
Socialist Workers Party related documents.
Biographical / Historical
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a political organization founded by James P. Cannon in 1938.
Pedro (Peter) Camejo (1939-2008) joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1967. After returning from Venezuela in the early 1980s, Camejo was expelled
from the party after patitioning to rejoin. He went on to found the North Star Network (NSN) in 1983, which later disbanned.
Camejo went on to run in the state gubernatorial election in California for the California Green Party in 2002 and 2006.
Walter Lippmann joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1967. After being an active member of the organization, in 1983 the Los Angeles branch
charged him with the act of indiscipline. He was later expelled from the party.
Bibliography
Bibliography for the historical note.
"III The Purge Begins." Encyclopedia of Trotskyism Online, https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fit/rpiiipurge.htm#section6.
"Peter 'Pedro' Miguel Camejo (1939–2008)." Bridget St Ruth: Obituary - Peter "Pedro" Miguel Camejo (1939-2008), https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol10/no1/struth.html
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Trotskyism -- 20th century
Trotskyism -- United States
Socialism -- United States
Socialist Workers Party
Series I : Pedro Camejo
January 30, 1981; December 14, 1981; February 10-25, 1982; March 15, 1982; June 4-July 19, 1982; March 3, 1983; August 7,
1983; January 8, 1984; March 30, 1984
Scope and Contents
This series contains correspondence related to Pedro Camejo and his denied readmission to the Socialist Workers Party. Additional
material in this series is related to Committee in Solidarity With the People of El Salvador and the 1981 Proposal for City
Elections.
box 1, folder 1
"Correspondence relating to Camejo's status for Party Norms Agenda Point"
December 14, 1981; February 10-25, 1982
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Barry Sheppard, Political Committee, Socialist Workers Party; Carlos Martinez; Pedro Camejo; and Steve
Clark, Political Committee, Socialist Workers Party.
box 1, folder 2
"A reply and clarification" by Pedro Camejo
March 15, 1982
box 1, folder 8
Report most likely written by Pedro Camejo with attached statement for IEC minutes from Camejo
June 4, 1982
box 1, folder 3
Correspondence to and from Pedro Camejo to the Socialist Workers Party
June 6-July 19, 1982; March 3, 1983
box 1, folder 4
Correspondence from Pedro Camejo to Jim regarding Doug Jenness's article "Out Political Continuity with Bolshevism
July 13, 1982
box 1, folder 5
Correspondence from Peter Camejo to Bill
August 7, 1983; March 30, 1984
Scope and Contents
Also attached is the article "Camejo Meeting in New York, August 7, 1983."
box 1, folder 6
Correspondence from USEC Bureau to Pedro Camejo
January 8, 1984
box 1, folder 7
"Proposal for 1981 City Elections" by Pedro Camejo, Ray Markey, and Victor Nieto
January 30, 1981
box 1, folder 9
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
undated
Series II : Walter Lippman
August 21, 1937; September 15, 1971; December 26, 1978; January 1979; February 26, 1979; June 23, 1979; January 18, 1981;
March 1981; January 7, 1986; March 1, 1986; circa 1985-1986; August 18, 1989; undated
Scope and Contents
This series contains correspondence to and from Walter Lippman to various members of the Socialist Workers Party. Also included
is a personal file related to Walter Lippman, "Roll of Honor" in Socialist Appeal, Notes on the Emergency National Cofference
(ENC) by Walter Lippman and Dianne Freeley, Report of the Fit Conference by Dianne Freeley, conference notes by Evelyn Sell,
and blank question surveys.
box 1, folder 10
Correspondence from Walter Lippman to Jack Barnes
December 26, 1978
box 1, folder 11
Correspondence to and from Walter Lippman and Paul Montauk
January 1-February 26, 1979
box 1, folder 12
Correspondence from Walter Lippman to Rich Robohm
January 16, 1979
box 1, folder 13
Correspondence from Paul Montauk, to Morris Chertov with document attachment titled "The UE Faces the Split" by Irwin Marnin
June 23, 1979
box 1, folder 14
Correspondence to and from Walter Lippman and George
January 18, 1981; March 9, 1981; March 18, 1981
box 1, folder 15
Correspondence from Evelyn Sell to Walter Lippman regarding the ENC Conference
January 6, 1986
box 1, folder 16
Correspondence to Workers Vanguard and Spartacist from Walter Lippman
August 18, 1989
box 1, folder 17
Walter Lippman Personal File
September 15, 1971; undated
box 1, folder 18
"Roll of Honor" in
Socialist Appeal
August 21, 1937
box 1, folder 19
Notes on the Emergency National Conference (ENC)
1986
Scope and Contents
Includes "Notes on the ENC Conference" by Dianne Freeley and "The Third Emergency National Conference: Notes of a Participant"
by Walter Lippman.
box 1, folder 20
"A Conference Organizer on "Notes of a Participant"" by Evelyn Sell
March 1, 1986
box 1, folder 21
Report of the Fit Conference by Dianne Freeley
circa 1985-1986
box 1, folder 22
Blank question surveys
undated
