Sam Webb
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Webb
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Opinion
Elections 08: embracing the moment
August 2, 2008The expected presidential nomination of Barack Obama is a path breaking and historic achievement from many standpoints, not least the struggle for equality and against racism. Obama’s nomination leaves an enduring mark on every aspect of...
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Opinion
Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe
March 11, 2008Greenhouse gases can be both a curse and a blessing. Too little in the atmosphere leads to the cooling of the earth, too much to its heating up. If the atmosphere were free of greenhouse gases,...
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Opinion
A peoples surge that could reshape our country
February 15, 2008A people’s surge is heaving its way across the country with unexpected force. And in doing so, it is confounding pundits, challenging conventional wisdom and reconfiguring our nation’s politics. Only one thing is for certain: it...
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Opinion
On the road again: Challenges and opportunities in the 2008 elections
December 14, 2007Not every struggle carries the same political significance. Some leave little trace on the political landscape; others rearrange it extensively.
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U.S.
A political river is being crossed
December 7, 2007We are at the cusp of a new stage of struggle that has the potential to shift the balance of forces in our country, not incrementally and momentarily, but decisively and enduringly in favor of the...
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Peace
2008 and the Iraq war
October 19, 2007Last week I read a report that U.S. guards employed by a private security company fired into a car carrying four Iraqi people in Baghdad. The driver and a woman in the front seat were killed,...
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PrintEditions
The United States at the crossroads
October 9, 2007The following speech by Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, was prepared for a public event scheduled the same week as the Homecoming Celebration at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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PrintEditions
James E. Jackson Jr. an appreciation
September 14, 2007
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