Sidney Peck
Sidney Peck
Sidney Peck has been one of the key workhorses of American communism for decades, especially in his role as a key leader of the various "Mobes" committees that constituted the heart of the "Hanoi Lobby" during the Indochina War.
He was identified in several Congressional Record items as well as in the House Internal Security Committee staff study on "The New Mobilization Committee and Its Predecessor Organizations", 1970, as having been a Communist Party USA Committeeman of the Wisconsin Communist Party.
His family, wife and children, were more sympathetic to the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and its' youth arm, the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA). His wife's name was Louise Peck, and his childrens' name were ********.
Expel South Africa From the UN
The Campaign for One Million Voices to Expel South Africa From the UN was a Communist Party USA front created in about 1974.[1] The front was launched to speak on South Africa and its membership in the United Nations. They issued an undated brochure entitled "We Who Support Human Rights... DEMAND the expulsion of South Africa from the UN!" The brochure was printed by the CPUSA print shop "Prompt Press", printing bug number 209.
Sponsors included Sidney Peck
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Peck was a leader of "National Mobe from 196? till it changed its name in July, 1969.
New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Peck was one of the top leaders of the name-changed New Mobe, July, 1969 until it later morphed into a Communist Party USA-dominated faction known as "National Committee to Stop Racism, War, and ??, which later became the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ).
GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee
Circa 1969, Prof. Sidney Peck, Cleveland, was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .[2]
Conference on Socialism and Activism - Columbia Un., December 6-8, 1985
Sidney Peck was listed as an "Endorser" of the Marxist-sponsored "Conference on Socialism and Activism", scheduled at Columbia Un., for Dec. 6-8, 1985, according to an ad/notice in the weekly Marxist newspaper "The Guardian (Guardian), p. 9.
Open Letter to Obama on Iran
In 2008 Sidney Peck , Retired Professor Sociology, Cambridge, MA signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.[3]
References
- ↑ In the brochure they made a reference to the 29th Session of the UN, which, based on its founding in 1945, would make the year 1974.
- ↑ Undated, GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee letterhead circa 1969
- ↑ Open Letter to Obama on Iran