re: notice of rent increase
A poem
by Michelle EveretteIn this poem, Michelle Everette explores how it hurts to be poor.
Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy
A response to Charlie Post
by Jonah ben AvrahamJonah ben Avraham responds to Charlie Post on how to understand the relationship between the electoral far right and fascist forces and what this means for threats to bourgeois democracy and the strategies for the Left.
“The Generals’ fight for power is not our fight”
An interview with Muzna Alhaj, a Sudanese Resistance Committee organizer
by brian bean and Shireen Akram-BosharShireen Akram-Boshar and brian bean interview Muzna Alhaj, a member and organizer of a Khartoum Resistance Committee, about the escalating armed conflict between rival factions of the ruling junta and its impact on the revolutionary dynamic in Sudan.
Build healthy communities, not prisons
Activists rally in Vermont against expansion of the carceral state
by Jayna AhsafA transcript of a speech last month by Jayna Ahsaf, an organizer with the Vermont chapter of the FreeHer campaign from the abolitionists group the National Council speaking to activists on the need for a long-term campaign to abolish prisons and fund people and healthy communities.
This is what solidarity looks like!
An interview with LA educators
by Alex SchmausAlex Schmaus interviews UTLA member Thalía Cataño and SEIU Local 99 member Rosalba Romero— both of whom work at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles—about the successful strike in March.
May Days
Commemorating International Workers’ Day in Chicago’s Haymarket Tour
by Joe AllenMay 1 is International Workers’ Day. In this short essay, Joe Allen recounts the experience of the walking tour at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, where there is a monument to the May 1, 1886 uprising and the bloody confrontation on May 3 between police and workers–and ultimately, the execution of four militants involved in the uprising.
Get off Twitter and get into the (online) streets
How “Public Health Twitter” prevents us from reclaiming public space
by Mary Jirmanus Saba and Zoey ThillWith the Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 set to expire next month, Mary Jirmanus Saba and Zoey Thill, members of the People’s CDC, write about the role Twitter has played during the pandemic among public health and disability justice activists, and they argue in this piece for moving beyond the platform’s limitations to reclaim the public space for the pandemic’s most impacted people.
A French spring
An interview on the mass uprising against pension reform
by Sylvestre JaffardTempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard regarding the mass uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
Intersectional organizing wall-to-wall at Rutgers
Interview with Rutgers professor Deepa Kumar
by Dana Cloud and Deepa KumarTempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and AAUP-AFT leader Deepa Kumar about how the union united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the higher education labor movement.
“We shut this place down because everybody walked out”
Interview with Rutgers workers about their strike
by Mel Bienenfeld, Hank Kalet, and Sebastian LeonTempest member Mel Bienenfeld interviewed with Rutgers workers Hank Kalet and Sebastian Leon about their historic strike, its methods, and its gains.