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This comes as shock to me and I'm sure most Bay Area leftists who knew Tom. Which, as it happens, is probably most of ALL Bay Area's left community. Tom was a founding member of the Peace and Freedom Party in 1968. Well known for standing up to Eldridge Cleaver's nomination for President by P&F and being one of the few who opposed him on the grounds of Cleaver's views toward women. Tom was often a candidate for the P&F was instrumental in getting the P&FP back on the ballot in the state after the Green Party ended up getting so many votes from P&F that the party lost it's 5% threshold on statewide offices. Tom joined the SP after serving a stint in the U.S. Marines in the 1950s, and was in the New Yor SP when Max Max Shachtman's ISL voted to dissolve into the party. He opposed their entry on the grounds that it would take the SP to the right. He was, of course, understating the situation. Tom was a premier 'sectologist', that is, he knew of and, unlike most of us, could recite amazing stories and vignettes about the most obscure little leftist group in the U.S. Tom never, ever, wavered in his 40 years in the P&F keeping the P&F, a socialist party, away from those that would lead it into or in support of, any of the capitalist parties. He will be greatly missed by all of us. David Walters ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
