A revolutionary socialist organizing project
Fighting the attacks on higher education: a Tempest roundtable
by Tempest…because look around a STEM campus and look who is there. Look at who does research and science in this country on any STEM campus–anywhere between 40 and 60 percent…
Campus activism enters a period of uncertainty as the opposition closes ranks and repression is ratcheted up
by B. Colby Hamilton…NYU’s Vice President for Global Campus Safety, claimed that campus security found “targeted threatening graffiti” in the library that “triggered an investigation by law enforcement.” “Violence and threats of violence…
An interview with Karma Chávez on the University of Texas
by Karma Chávez and Dana Cloud…That’s something. I mean, it should be fucking obvious, but it’s not, but it’s something. What is interesting is that the repression on campus last spring did not kill the…
Interview with Rutgers workers about their strike
by Mel Bienenfeld, Hank Kalet, and Sebastian Leon…they picketed administration buildings at Rutgers’ three campuses in New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark. They held massive marches and demonstrations, many of them festive, on campus and in surrounding communities….
Review of Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel
by Keith Rosenthal…both ideological and material terms. Within weeks, minority students across campuses nationwide collectively organized the procurement of buses to transport themselves away from the hostile campus climates and back to…
How Howard students helped win a faculty union contract after losing their battle
by Sean Pears and Jacob Sloan…Administrative Building on the campus. When they attempted to enter the building to meet with the Provost to settle the contract and avert the strike, they were met with campus…
We demanded $21 an hour! We got $21 an hour!
by Nancy Welch…students in our unit. With the campus minimum wage set at $11.50 an hour, there was no place on campus where students could work and make a living wage. Many…
Interview with Nagesh Rao
by David Whitehouse and Aaron Amaral…So the atmosphere on campuses was volatile, combative—on public campuses particularly—a powder keg waiting to explode. The movement began on the public university campuses—Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University in particular…
…the Fullerton campus of the California State University to demonstrate support for Palestinian liberation and against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Fullerton is a quiet commuter campus, so the size…
Their first line of attack must be our first line of defense
by Tempest National Committee…the Left and wielded against him, his fellow oligarchs, and far-right minions. So, he is targeting Palestinians and the Palestine solidarity movement to carry out a cultural counter-revolution on campuses….