Deirdre Griswold is an American communist political activist. She is the editor of ''Workers World'', the newspaper of the

Workers World Party The Workers World Party (WWP) is a revolutionary Marxist–Leninist communist party founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Marcy and his followers split from the SWP in 1958 over a series of long-standi ...

, and former candidate for

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. Griswold ran in

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

as the nominee of the

. Her running mate was Gavrielle Holmes. She is the daughter of

Vincent Copeland Vincent Copeland (June 19, 1915 – June 7, 1993) was an American actor, labor official, writer, and political activist. A communist, Copeland was an actor during the 1930s but soon turned to political activism. Turning to industrial labor, Copela ...

(deceased in 1993, at 77), one of the founders of the party. Her mother, Elizabeth Ross Copeland, and paternal aunt, Cynthia Cochran, were also communists. She was married to

Andy Stapp Andrew Dean Stapp (March 25, 1944 – September 3, 2014) was an American activist known for forming the American Servicemen's Union, an unofficial union for the U.S. military, in opposition to the Vietnam War. Stapp began as a student activist ...

. She has edited communist publication ''Workers World'' for several decades. Griswold stood in for

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presidential candidate John Parker in the October 15, 2004 third-party candidate debates. On February 12, 2018, Griswold appeared on ''

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'', where she defended the government of

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Bibliography

* ''China; the struggle within from the pages of Workers World'' (1972) (with

Sam Marcy Sam Ballan (1911 – February 1, 1998), known by his pen name Sam Marcy, was an American lawyer, writer, and Marxist-Leninist activist of the post-World War II era. He co-founded the Workers World Party in 1959 and served as its chairperson un ...

and Naomi Cohen) * ''The Ethiopian Revolution and the Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism'' (1978) * ''Eyewitness Ethiopia: The continuing revolution'' (1979) * ''Indonesia: The Bloodbath that Was'' (1975) * ''Indonesia: The Second Greatest Crime of the Century'' (1978)

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