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Fascist violence and the form of the state
Below is an excerpt from an article by Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century. It was written shortly after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in 1981 — […]
Author: Sam Marcy
Fight racism
Murder of Fred Hampton was domestic version of My Lai massacre
Struggle-La Lucha is republishing this article about the global ramifications of the U.S. government’s execution of Chicago Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on Dec. 4, 1969. It was written some 50 […]
Elections
Capitalist elections and socialist revolution
On Oct. 28, 1980, Marxist thinker and fighter Sam Marcy wrote about a presidential debate between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan. An excerpt appears below. This was at the beginning of what […]
Capitalism and Marxism
Fascism: how it develops and how to fight back
With the 2020 elections fast approaching, the workers’ and progressive movements in the U.S. are debating the best tactics to fight the Donald Trump regime and the growth of violent white-supremacist, neofascist groups. As a […]
Fight racism
Black labor from chattel slavery to wage slavery
Black August commemorates the Aug. 7, 1970, raid on the Marin County Courthouse led by young revolutionary Jonathan Jackson, and the Aug. 21, 1971, assassination of Black Panther prison organizer George Jackson at San Quentin Prison. […]
In the U.S.
Should workers support police unions?
This article first appeared Jan. 29, 1971, headlined “The year of the pig: Should workers support police strikes?” On the Chinese calendar, 1971 was a Year of the Pig. Are strikes by the police to […]
Capitalism and Marxism
Marxism and insurrection: When the people rebel against racism
On Memorial Day 2020, four Minneapolis police brutally murdered George Floyd. Video of the killing quickly spread around the world. On May 26, some 20,000 people marched in Minneapolis, where they were confronted with a […]
Lenin
Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’: A weapon for the working class
From a talk given on Sept. 2, 1993, introducing a series of classes on basic Marxist concepts after the destruction of the Soviet Union. We’re looking into the arsenal of weapons in the struggle against […]
Capitalism and Marxism
The Communist Manifesto: A clarion call full of ideas
The Communist Manifesto was first published on Feb. 21, 1848. This appreciation was written on its 135th anniversary in 1983 by Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of […]
Capitalism and Marxism
Behind the 1989 reactionary coup in Romania
Struggle-La Lucha is publishing this article by Sam Marcy, one of the leading Marxist thinkers and fighters of the second half of the 20th century, to mark the 30th anniversary of the counterrevolutionary developments in […]