Sam Friedman

Sam Friedman is longtime anti-Stalinist socialist and the author of Teamster Rank and File and A Precious Residue. He has written widely on the AIDS crisis and on Russia and Ukraine.

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Sam Friedman

July 12, 2023 Length: 2505 words

Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Critique of the liberal establishment COVID Crisis Group—on need for labor and community activism and on how capitalism fuels pandemics; first appeared in Harvard Law School blog Bill of Health, July…

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Sam Friedman,
Peter Hudis

April 11, 2023 Length: 5435 words

Dialogue on Marx’s Concept of Organization and its Meaning for Today

Summary: This discussion in February 2023 on the relation between spontaneity, organization and philosophy takes off from the chapter, “Political Organization,” in The Marx Revival, edited by Marcello…

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Sam Friedman

April 10, 2023 Length: 273 words

Two Poems on the Alternative

Summary: Two poems on possible futures and the alternative to capitalism — Editors

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A nighttime birds-eye view of buildings in Kiev.

Sam Friedman

January 25, 2022 Length: 189 words

“As Putin and Biden bluster threats of war, and so-called antiwar activists echo imperial lies…”

A long-time socialist’s poem reminiscing about friends and experiences in Kyiv in the shadow of the threat of war in Ukraine. — Editors

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Sam Friedman,
Danny Katch

July 19, 2021 Length: 2179 words

Activism Made AIDS Treatment More Accessible — That’s What It’ll Take for COVID

Summary: In this interview, a leading AIDS researcher discusses why both AIDS and COVID have disproportionately hit poor people of color, and why people who rightfully mistrust pharmaceutical executiv…

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Sam Friedman

May 27, 2020 Length: 356 words

Three Poems on Covid-19

Three poems on Covid-19 by Sam Friedman.

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Sam Friedman

April 7, 2020 Length: 459 words

Three Poems on COVID-19

Their investors made a killing All they wanted was to make a living, maybe enough for a vacation away from China, if that is where they lived when they got their loan whose cash traced back, back, bac…

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Sam Friedman

December 11, 2019 Length: 260 words

“Pillars” & “Survival,” Two Poems by Sam Friedman

Pillars Like a pillar of salt ground into the wounds of a world, Washington’s monument looms like a shade over Capital’s America.   As a child, I watched fireworks beneath its erection, watched r…

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Sam Friedman

October 6, 2018 Length: 86 words

The Crisis—October 6, 2018

How many rapists sit robed in our courts? How many abusers strut sated in Senates? How many centuries have prick-wielders reigned? How many lives have these ruling thugs ruined? Why should we respect…

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Sam Friedman

A Precious Residue: Poems that ponder efforts to spark a working class socialism in the 1970s and after