Author: Sam Marcy

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In the U.S.

Like David Duke before him, Trump’s goal is to reverse hard-won rights

January 24, 2025 Sam Marcy
Following is a piece by U.S. Marxist leader Sam Marcy on the 1991 gubernatorial campaign of neo-Nazi David Duke in Louisiana. We have already re-published Marcy’s “Message to the workers of Louisiana” and argued that […]
In the U.S.

Straight line from David Duke to Musk’s Nazi salute

January 22, 2025 Sam Marcy
David Duke is a neo-Nazi and peddler of conspiracy theories who ran for governor of Louisiana in 1991. He was the “Grand Wizard” (national leader) of the Ku Klux Klan from 1974 to 1981. Running […]
Around the world

The lessons of Chile

September 11, 2023 Sam Marcy
Sept. 11 marks the 50th anniversary of the CIA-orchestrated coup against democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende of Chile. Tens of thousands of people were killed or “disappeared” in the aftermath. Even today, new evidence […]
Environment

The meek won’t inherit the earth: Mass action will save the planet

April 22, 2023 Sam Marcy
 On Earth Day 2023, Struggle-La Lucha presents this article by the Marxist thinker and fighter Sam Marcy, written for the 20th anniversary of Earth Day in April 1990. Back in the Middle Ages, when […]
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The Communist Manifesto: A clarion call full of ideas

February 21, 2023 Sam Marcy
The Communist Manifesto was first published 175 years ago on Feb. 21, 1848. The following is from notes written in 1983 by Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of […]
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Movement must analyze catastrophe in USSR

February 3, 2023 Sam Marcy
Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century, died 25 years ago on Feb. 1, 1998. To mark the occasion, Struggle-La Lucha is publishing a selection of […]
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Marxism and mass action: Strategies for the struggle ahead

February 2, 2023 Sam Marcy
Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century, died 25 years ago on Feb. 1, 1998. To mark the occasion, Struggle-La Lucha is publishing a selection of […]
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China’s Cultural Revolution and the Fall of Lin Biao

February 1, 2023 Sam Marcy
Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century, died 25 years ago on Feb. 1, 1998. To mark the occasion, Struggle-La Lucha is publishing a selection of […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Marxism and insurrection: In defense of the LA rebellion

January 31, 2023 Sam Marcy
Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century, died 25 years ago on Feb. 1, 1998. To mark the occasion, Struggle-La Lucha is publishing a selection of […]
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What the banks did to Poland

January 30, 2023 Sam Marcy
Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century, died 25 years ago on Feb. 1, 1998. To mark the occasion, Struggle-La Lucha is publishing a selection of […]