Chetta, Samuel F.

Samuel F. Chetta was a member of the New Jersey Socialist Workers Party, the state affiliate of the national party, during the years 1975-1977. He was an active member of the party, speaking at rallies, writing articles for The Militant, the party's newspaper, and taking photographs. The Socialist Workers Party is a small political party founded in 1938 by members of the Communist Party USA who had been expelled from that group. Since 1948, the party has run candidates for President, receiving its greatest number of votes in 1976 when Peter Camejo ran. In recent years the party's membership has been in steady decline.