Author: Sam Marcy

Minneapolis
Capitalism and Marxism

Marxism and insurrection: When the people rebel against racism

May 28, 2020 Sam Marcy
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 […]
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Lenin

Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’: A weapon for the working class

April 21, 2020 Sam Marcy
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 […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

The Communist Manifesto: A clarion call full of ideas

February 21, 2020 Sam Marcy
  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 […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

Behind the 1989 reactionary coup in Romania

December 28, 2019 Sam Marcy
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 […]
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1917

Lessons of October: The struggle against imperialist war

November 7, 2019 Sam Marcy
November 7, 2019, marks the 102nd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia, led by the Bolshevik Party. Struggle-La Lucha is sharing this article by Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter […]
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Environment

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

September 20, 2019 Sam Marcy
In conjunction with the worldwide #ClimateStrike actions on Sept. 20, 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 […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

Lessons of the 1977 New York rebellion

July 16, 2019 Sam Marcy
On the evening of July 13, 2019, parts of Manhattan’s Midtown and Upper West Side were plunged into darkness for several hours by an electricity outage. The outage, whose cause is still being investigated, disrupted […]
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In the U.S.

A Marxist view of the U.S. Supreme Court

July 14, 2019 Sam Marcy
In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court released a wave of decisions, as it does every year at the end of its session. Among them was a ruling giving the responsibility for decisions on partisan […]
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Korea

Kim Il Sung: Anti-imperialist fighter, socialist hero

July 8, 2019 Sam Marcy
Kim Il Sung, leader of the Korean Revolution and founding president of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), died 25 years ago on July 8, 1994. The Korean people are commemorating the anniversary with […]
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Capitalism and Marxism

After the May 1968 uprising: The political character of capitalist rule in France

February 5, 2019 Sam Marcy
The year 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 uprising of workers and students in France. In light of the Yellow Vests protest movement shaking France today and the continued relevance of the […]