American politician
Deirdre Griswold (born 1937) is an American communist political activist. She is the editor of Workers World , the newspaper of the Workers World Party , and former candidate for President of the United States . Griswold ran in 1980 as the nominee of the Workers World Party . Her running mate was Gavrielle Holmes .
She is the daughter of Vincent Copeland (deceased in 1993, at 77),[ 1] 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 .[ 2]
She has edited communist publication Workers World for several decades.[ 3]
Griswold stood in for third-party presidential candidate John Parker in the October 15, 2004 third-party candidate debates .
On February 12, 2018, Griswold appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight , where she defended the government of North Korea .[ 4]
Bibliography
China; the struggle within from the pages of Workers World (1972) (with Sam Marcy 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) ISBN 0-89567-003-8
References
^ Lambert, Bruce (10 June 1993). "Vincent Copeland, 77, is Dead; Led Anti-War Protests in 1960's" . The New York Times .
^ William Yardley (September 14, 2014). "Andy Stapp, Who Tried to Unionize the Military, Dies at 70" . The New York Times . Retrieved September 28, 2014 .
^ Hafetz, David (May 2, 2004). "CITYPEOPLE; Last of the True Believers" . The New York Times . Retrieved 13 February 2018 .
^ Baragona, Justin (February 12, 2018). "Tucker Carlson and 'North Korea Sympathizer' Go at It in Insanely Off-the-Rails Segment" . Mediaite . Retrieved 13 February 2018 .