Peter Camejo--green outside, red terrorist inside.

"[Peter] Camejo continues to hold his socialist beliefs, jokingly calling himself a 'watermelon--green on the outside, red on the inside.'" That was from an October 22, 2002 article by Associated Press reporter Louise Chu about the California Green Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo.

"I have the same views I've always had in my life in principle," Camejo told the AP reporter. That being the case, Mr. Camejo's watermelon metaphor is no joking matter. After receiving 5 percent of the vote statewide in the 2002 race against incumbent California Governor Gray Davis, Camejo jumped back into the fray a few months later in the special recall race. A few news reports in both races mentioned that Camejo is a "former" socialist, and a few noted that he had been a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Most profiles of the Green Party candidate referred to him as an "environmental activist" or "peace activist." No major news organization bothered to mention that for many years Mr. Camejo was a top leader in the SWP, a Communist terrorist organization that is a branch of Leon Trotsky's Fourth International. In 1976, Comrade Camejo ran as the SWP's presidential candidate.

The SWP's founding principles declare: "The main specific task of the SWP is the mobilization of the American masses for struggle against American capitalism and for its overthrow." The June 1973 issue of the SWP's Internal Information Bulletin states: "As Marxists, we do not believe in individual terror because it underrates the class struggle. We instead believe in increasing the struggle, in mass terrorism!" Camejo himself parroted this Marxist-Leninist line on the pragmatic use of terrorism in the SWP's Discussion Bulletin of June 1973. Comrade Camejo argued: "In the process of an insurrection, terrorist acts may be advantageous to the workers movement." (Emphasis in the original.)

The SWP, together with other national branches of the Fourth International in foreign countries, worked with Fidel Castro's DGI and other Communist intelligence agencies in support of terrorist groups worldwide. Camejo not only was chief of the SWP in the U.S., he was also on the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, where he operated under the code name "Pedro."