On Feb. 1, 1998, we lost comrade Sam Marcy, the founder and chairperson of Workers World Party. I’m very proud to be part of Struggle-La Lucha newspaper and Socialist Unity Party, a living expression of Sam Marcy’s revolutionary legacy today.
One of the great Marxist thinkers and fighters of the second half of the 20th century, he did what many thought (and still think) impossible – built a revolutionary cadre organization in the heart of the imperialist empire, directed it toward lifting up the struggles of the most oppressed workers, and helped it maintain a revolutionary communist perspective through some of the greatest setbacks for the working class in the U.S. and around the world.
A gentle, kind man who was implacable with his class enemies and fools who bent to them.
The great continuer of Lenin and Trotsky who kept the red thread of history unbroken from the Russian Revolution to today, when most of the world communist movement succumbed to opportunism of one brand or another, or had to start over practically from scratch. Who welcomed and embraced the rise of other great revolutions and revolutionaries whom dogmatists refused to acknowledge.
We continue his struggle, determined to fight for the victory of the workers and oppressed, for the triumph of socialism and communism.
Sam Marcy, presente!
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