Author: Sam Friedman
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War is hell
Sam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.
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Why don’t they just negotiate?
In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman observes the limits of pacifism while children die and catastrophe looms.
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Fatal abstractions
There are effective vaccines for COVID-19 and effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but both remain global epidemics. Medical researcher Sam Friedman explains how the profit system is limiting the reach of life-saving medicines.
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Anti-lamentation
In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.
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Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?
A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.
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Where is the Left on pandemic politics?
Justin Feldman and Sam Friedman discuss the shortcomings of the Left in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and try to trace a path forward.