Cop murder on the production line
Justice for Mariar!
by Paul KDPaul KD reports on the police murder of 26-year-old Sudanese immigrant Chiewelthap Mariar on the floor of the Oklahoma meatpacking plant where he was working.
Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia
Interview with Russian socialist, Ivan Ovsyannikov
by Ashley Smith and Ivan OvsyannikovTempest Collective member, Ashley Smith, interviews Ivan Ovsyannikov, a Russian journalist, leftist activist, and trade union organizer on the international days of protest on January 19 through 24, 2023 called against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.
Racism has no borders
An interview with the Justice 4 Nzoy campaign in Switzerland
by William Gifis and Haley PessinOn August 30, 2021, Roger Wilhelm, a 37-year-old Black man–known to friends and family as “Nzoy”–was killed by police in Morges, Switzerland. Tempest members William Gifis and Haley Pessin talked to Evelyn Wilhelm, who is Nzoy’s sister and runs the Justice 4 Nzoy Switzerland campaign to win justice for her brother.
Report from the Front: Rally in Pilsen
Tax Amazon and the 25th ward elections
by Joe AllenJoe Allen reports on a tax-Amazon rally in his Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen and nearby Little Village.
Revolution means smashing the state
by brian bean
Any responsible approach to overcoming capitalism, argues brian bean, must grapple with the need to dismantle the capitalist state and replace it with our own democratic institutions from below.
Giving credit to the wrong class
“Explaining” strikes for union recognition
by Kim MoodyDid workers “pivot” toward striking for union recognition because of New Deal legislation, as Eric Blanc claims? Kim Moody looks at what really drove the labor upsurge of the early 1930s.
The legacy of occupation and the fight for a democratic Iraq
Interview with the Workers Against Sectarianism (Iraq)
by brian beanbrian bean interviews Workers Against Sectarianism on the struggle against sectarian politics in Iraq.
Public sector power: Building rank & file organization under Mayor Eric Adams
by Tempest
A Tempest (NYC) public event on union struggles in the City’s public sector.
UK workers strike back
by Daniel Randall
Daniel Randall reports on the strike wave in Britain and analyzes the dynamics and lessons from the biggest labor upsurge in a generation.
Neocolonial wastelands
by Daniel Johnson
Daniel Johnson reports on the current situation following a 2021 investigation by Greenpeace that revealed how European countries, led by the U.K., Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have shipped millions of tons of waste to Turkey.