Clifton DeBerry

Clifton DeBerry (September 18, 1923 – March 24, 2006) was an American communist and two-time candidate for President of the United States of the Socialist Workers Party.

[2] In the 1940s, DeBerry left his native South and moved to Chicago, where he worked in a factory owned by International Harvester.

[3] DeBerry grew critical of the official Communist movement, and in 1953 he joined the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist organization.

[3] DeBerry spoke out in defense of the Cuban Revolution, in support of African liberation struggles, and demanded withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.

DeBerry ran again in the 1980 United States presidential election as one of three candidates the party had that year, the others being Andrew Pulley and Richard Congress.

Clifton DeBerry died of heart failure on March 24, 2006 in a hospital near his home of Union City, California.