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by Peter Camejo (Author)
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About the Author

Peter Camejo (1939-2008) was a leader of the Green Party and prominent social justice activist. "A first generation Venezuelan-American born in New York City, Mr. Camejo became an activist at an early age, speaking out against the Vietnam War and for the rights of migrant workers. He marched in Selma, Ala., with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King." -New York Times
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  • Paperback: 340 pages
  • Publisher: Haymarket Books (June 1, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1931859922
  • ISBN-13: 978-1931859929
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Peter Camejo's wonderful memoir
By Walter Lippmann on June 17, 2010
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Peter Camejo came to Madison, where I was a student at the University of Wisconsin, in 1962. He was on the national speaking tour in defense of Cuba described in the book. He was arguably the most effective socialist public speaker I've ever heard in person. The accounts written by Peter give the reader also a sense of his speaking ability, though hearing a sound recording would always give a much better sense. This book is one of the best I've seen describing that period by a participant who was part of many of the same groups and experiences I was.

I recommend this book with immense enthusiasm. I was unable to put it down once I turned the first page. Peter recruited me to the Young Socialist Alliance. That led me to Los Angeles and joining the Socialist Workers Party in 1967, in which I remained until my involuntary departure in 1983. Those were wonderful years and I have no regrets about them whatsoever.

My political work and committment has always been connected with Cuba in one way or another, which is why I was ready to join what seemed to me a very serious group interested in actively defending Cuba in 1962. I was ready and Peter was there to recruit me.

In the book he gives great descriptions of how Cuba influenced him personally and politically. I particularly like the way he went to Cuba and asked them challenging political questions. They didn't take offense, just calmly responded. Peter was always very much like that: never afraid of opinions he didn't agree with, always ready to discuss the issues with someone he hoped he could work with further.

There's a nice photo of Peter which I took in 2002, along with a selection of his comments from the book which I found particularly relevant on a web-page I've created.Read more ›
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A revolutionary's tale told with warmth and humor
By Louis Proyect on July 11, 2010
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Peter Camejo's "North Star" is an instant classic, combining vivid historical recollection of some of the most important struggles over a half-century period with touching and humorous personal experiences.

Like perhaps no other socialist leader going back to Eugene V. Debs, Peter Camejo had a gift for putting anti-capitalist ideas into instant recognizable human terms, making everybody who heard him open to ideas deemed subversive by the power elite.

This is a book that is essential reading for anybody who is looking for a path out of the horrors of American society, with its increasing tendencies to war, economic crisis and environmental despoliation.

Highly, highly recommended.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
call to conscious action
By Harriet Ashton on July 5, 2010
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Peter Camejo jolted me back into remembering who we once were in the 1960's--"we can change the world" was a deeply held belief and we were willing to dedicate ourselves to that But, then, we were offered the option not to do so. After all,the Vietnam war ended and we got jobs, moved on, raised families etc. all in the richest country in the world. Peter reminds us of how to stay faithful and awake to social realities and because he had a foot in two worlds ( the rich, complacent US and the social turbulence of Latin America), he had a unique way of seeing the the latter years of the 20th century. Most importantly he talks of the forms of capitulation ( such a wonderful word to describe a head trip) from ultra left purism to liberal opportunism. We used to call it "selling out", but even sparks can glow to embers in a time where there is no leadership that stands firm to principle and where the masses stay glued to games and video "reality" shows as their incomes, standard of living, streets and schools erode around them. He shows this. And he does it with heart! Yet he adds detail and names names, uncovers skeletons in closets and calls out the errors and does it with a clarity of historical analysis. Speaking truth to power was always Peter's job and he always found the ways to do it effectively.

Finally, in this book we have someone who gives a class analysis with only the bare minimum of intellectualism or Marxist lingo! This is a man who walked his talk finding ways to do so creatively. But you can see how the women around him mostly paid the price with perhaps the sacrifice of their creative expression in the movement until, finally, like the rest of us he did do the householder life style raising children and finding a "real" job i.e.Read more ›
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Memoir of a revolutionary in non-revolutionary times
By whiteelephant on July 30, 2012
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I've been reading a fair bit about the 60s and 70s lately, to try to ascertain any lessons that a former generation of radicals might have for today. Peter Camejo's memoir 'The North Star' is the most insightful and entertaining such work I have thus come across.

I was expecting to read about Camejo's time with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), his 1976 presidential run, and the decline of American Trotskyism and the Fourth International. And indeed, there is much of insight and humor that Camejo presents on these topics. But what I wasn't expecting was just how vast Camejo's experiences were outside of this increasingly sectarian organization. Camejo takes the reader from a childhood split between Venezuela and Long Island, to his introduction to socialism in America, and even competing at the 1960 Summer Olympics yachting competition (who knew? "my dad, who was super-anti-anything having to do with socialism or Soviet Russia, said to me, "What a terrible boat they make." So I climbed into the Soviet boat, took a look around, and reported back, "Dad, their boat was made in New Jersey.") As Camejo becomes increasingly politicized, his early experiences center around Berkeley in the 60s (charged with a felony for the occupation of Moses Hall) and the National antiwar movement, before his work would become more centered around the SWP. As the SWP begins to disintegrate, Camejo's work increasingly centred around Latino communities, from immigrants rights, to supporting Hugo Blanco in Peru, and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. His work in Latin America would end up bringing him dangerously close to the CIA.Read more ›
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