One year after Dobbs
The fight for reproductive justice
by TempestA Tempest Collective event on Sunday, May 28 at 2 pm EDT
On The Brink?: The Teamsters and UPS
An update
by Joe AllenJoe Allen discusses whether UPS Teamsters will strike this summer.
The Left under Brandon Johnson
Accommodation or struggle?
by brian beanbrian bean argues the need for independent organizing and struggle under Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago
We demand justice for Jordan Neely
A Tempest editorial
by Haley PessinIn an editorial on behalf of the Tempest Collective, Haley Pessin looks at the conditions that led to the murder of Jordan Neely, an unhoused Black man who was choked to death on May 1 while riding the New York City subway.
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.