I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
Entwined with the unprecedented turn of politics in a fascistic direction is the emergence of a broad people’s anti-fascist coalition that stretches from Angela Davis on the left to Never Trumpers on the right. While it doesn’t — actually never…
Memorial Day (I post this on my blog every Memorial Day to remember my two friends who died in the Vietnam War. SW) Today, I will again drink a glass of beer in memory of my two friends and their…
The brazen bullying of the Trump administration toward Cuba makes me wistful for the days — the era — of the Soviet Union. It acted as a counterweight to the aggression of U.S. imperialism toward states pursuing a non-capitalist path…
The decision of the Roberts’ Court striking down a voting map in Louisiana that allowed Black people a smidgen of political representation in Congress — similar challenges are going on in other Southern States — should be an obvious and…
