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Resisting the backlash
by Tempest National CommitteeAs prominent leftists and progressives scramble to walk back their previous commitments to “woke” demands, the Tempest National Committee explains why abolition politics is fundamental to socialism.
A review of Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System
by Paul FleckensteinPaul Fleckenstein reviews Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism Assault on the Earth System and argues that the book makes an important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to our compounding ecological crisis.
Interview with Gonzalo Gómez
by Shireen Akram-Boshar and Anderson BeanEarthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela in quick succession on June 24. Gonzalo Gómez speaks to Tempest about the official and popular responses to the quakes.
In the wake of the ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine over the summer, the Tempest National Committee makes the case for the Left to build and support independent immigrant defense networks.
Attacks against the movement
by George B. WashingtonIn part two of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the resistance he met in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis.
Attacks against the movement
by George B. WashingtonIn part one of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the devastating results of the Prairieland case.
Anti-war protesters’ speeches in the Russian courts
by Ukraine Information GroupTry Me for Treason; Anti-war Protesters’ Speeches in the Russian Courts is a film featuring excerpts from four speeches by Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov.
The historical construction of childhood
by Kirstin RobertsKirstin Roberts shows how capitalism renders children as incomplete victims or threats in the context of the capitalist nuclear family–not as beings with personhood and rights. These images are rooted in the capitalist economy and ideologies of the family that buttress it.
Julia Corrado reflects on the impacts of climate change and the Canadian wildfires, arguing that environmental disaster requires more than the market-based solutions on offer.
A conversation with organizers of a mass action against Germany’s far right
by Aaron NiedermanAaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.