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.
Sudanese appeal for solidarity
by MENA Solidarity Network
In recognition of the urgency of the situation in Sudan and in internationalist solidarity, Tempest reprints two items published by the MENA Solidarity Network.
The far right today
by Charlie Post
Hard-right politicians and fascist street gangs pose growing threats to workers and the oppressed, argues Charlie Post, but they aren’t the same thing, and the Left needs different tactics to combat each one.
Justice for Joe Evica!
Support this unionist, fired for organizing
by Ben RatliffeBen Ratliffe reports on the firing of OPEIU Local 39 Chief Steward Joe Evica in retaliation for union activity during an ongoing contract fight with CUNA Mutual Group.
“Trans bans” and “groomer panic”
A timeline of the anti-trans moral panic in the U.S.
by Dean O'PossumDean O’Possum situates the recent wave of anti-trans attacks in the context of a broader pattern of moral panics whipping up right-wing forces against trans people and the Left more broadly.
Future on Fire
An Interview with author David Camfield
by Ricardo Gabriel and Nevena Pilipović-WenglerTempest members Ricardo Gabriel and Nevena Pilipović-Wenglerinterviewed David Camfield about his newest book, Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.
Yes, we do mean smash the state
In defense of revolution
by TempestAnnouncing a Tempest Collective event on Sunday, April 23 at 2 pm featuring Tempest Collective member brian bean on smashing the state.
Banking failures and a system in crisis
by Thomas Hummel
Thomas Hummel examines the recent run of bank failures and finds a system riven by crisis and contradictions.