Greg Godels & Pat Cummings

Welcome to Coming From Left Field, a conversation about politics, books, and current events.

Our political views coalesced from the crucibles of our personal, educational and professional histories.  

Pat Cummings grew up with middle-class privilege in a close and happy Irish-American military family.  He came of age in the Vietnam era, beginning his activism in the antiwar movement.  He spent his life in public education, where he saw first-hand the systemic inequalities that elevated some but suppressed many.  

Greg Godels grew up in a working-class family and in a working-class neighborhood. His family’s strong labor ties lead him to anti-racist and anti-capitalist activism and to Marxism-Leninism. He identifies with the legacy of Communism in the US. His writings have appeared in a number of publications in the US and internationally.