Sam Webb
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Webb
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Opinion
It’s complicated: President Obama and mass movement building
August 25, 2011The building of a mass movement on the scale of the 1930s or 1960s is a complicated process, despite the many-sided problems today's movement has the potential to eclipse them.
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Debt deal is bad for America
August 2, 2011The debt deal is a bad deal for the American people and the economy.
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Is the welfare state sustainable?
July 28, 2011David Brooks, the New York Times columnist, recently opined, "The current welfare state is simply unsustainable and anybody who is serious, on left or right, has to have a new vision of the social contract."
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Europe and U.S. have same problem: capitalism
July 8, 2011Major sections of capital believe the debt crisis gives them a golden opportunity to completely shift the costs of the "reproduction of labor power" to working people and break their fighting spirit.
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Does it matter which party wins?
June 29, 2011Like others, I'm disappointed with some of the administration's policies over the past two years - but I'm mindful of the main stragetic question for class and democratic struggles.
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Gloomy about the economy? The solution is stimulating
June 13, 2011Calls for austerity fill the media and the political corridors of power, but it's akin to pouring gasoline on a fire.
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Republicans redistribute the wealth – to the wealthy
June 2, 2011Republicans call redistributing wealth un-American, but they have turned the government into a mechanism to ruthlessly redistribute wealth to the upper crust.
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Which way to socialism?
May 23, 2011Hopefully, if asked about the road to socialism, people of socialist inclinations can give a better answer than two Mainers did to a lost traveler.
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