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Sam Webb

1,752 posts, 2001–2026

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.

Nov 10, 2015 1 min read

This week’s good, bad, and very ugly

The Good: The coalition of students, graduate students, faculty, and football players that forced University of Missouri President Timothy Wolfe to step down. Wolfe had become an obstacle to addressing issues of racial justice and other student concerns in a…

Nov 09, 2015 1 min read

Don’t forget Ferguson

I said in an earlier post that the entrance of the football players was the tipping point in the struggle on the University of Missouri campus over racial justice, but also mentioned that was part of a wider process of…

Nov 09, 2015 1 min read

University of Missouri football players step up, university president steps down

Just finished listening to a remarkable press conference with Mack Rhoades, Athletic Director, and Gary Kinkel, football coach, at the University of Missouri on ESPN. Both supported the refusal of the university’s football team to play in this weekend’s game…

Nov 06, 2015 1 min read

This week’s good, bad, and ugly

The Good: Announcement by President Obama to nix Keystone XL pipeline. Another victory for climate change movement. The Bad: We poured roughly 32 millions tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere this past year compared to 29 billion tons in…

Nov 02, 2015 3 min read

My Angle of Entry

Much of what I write is exploratory. It is a work in progress; an ongoing conversation with myself as well as readers of this blog. And there’s an explanation for this: I came to radicalism and the Communist Party in…