Sam Marcy; Founder of Workers World Party

Sam Marcy, 86, a Marxist writer and founder of the Workers World Party. A Jew born in Russia, Marcy as a child experienced the pogroms of the Russian Revolution, which helped shape his political views. Growing up in Brooklyn, he became a confirmed Marxist as a teenager and organized unions wherever he worked. He handed out the Daily Worker and other propaganda of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, and, after earning a law degree at St. John’s University, became an informal union consultant. Disenchanted with the Communist Party, Marcy formed his Workers World Party in 1959. Marcy wrote prolifically for the party newspaper, convinced that he was writing for the ages and that the American labor movement would eventually overcome capitalism. On Feb. 1 in New York City.