The fire next door

By Sam Marcy (May 27, 1983)

Workers World Vol. 25 No. 21

May 24 – Suppose you are awakened one night with screams of “Fire next door!” Almost instinctively you, your friends and neighbors would feel not only the threat but a sense of affinity, sympathy, solidarity with almost anybody under such circumstances, an eagerness to help the neighbor next door.





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