[1] Samuel Webb was born in Maine and graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1967.

[2] Webb led the CPUSA when it made the decision to support some Democratic candidates in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

This paper points out that socialism is once again being discussed in the trade union and student movements, in popular magazines and certainly in the halls of power worldwide.

[5] Webb traveled to China,[6] United Kingdom, Cuba,[7] and Vietnam,[6] in order to meet communist and socialist leaders.

It set forth positions that came under sharp criticism from Communist parties across the world, as well as a portion of CPUSA members, as being revisionist, social democratic, and anti-Communist.