Against Purgatory
A reply to Jacobin
by Adam TurlAdam Turl responds to Bhaskar Sunkara’s “The Left in Purgatory” , the lead editorial in the recent print issue of Jacobin, No. 44, Winter 2022.
Striking back! Labor strategy in the pandemic
A transcript of a Tempest Collective panel
by Paul KDThis is a lightly edited transcript of the panel on labor struggle and strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the Tempest Collective. It features Elizabeth Lalasz, Kirstin Roberts, Kim Moody, and Joe Burns, and is chaired by Paul KD.
Ukraine shows the urgency for an anti-war movement
by Joe Allen
In the face of daily news out of Ukraine, Joe Allen writes on the recent history of the anti-war movement to explain its current weak state, and to point to the urgency of rebuilding it.
Inside the Kazakhstan revolt
by Tempest
The uprising of January 2–8, 2022 was a revolt against inequality, unemployment, and the looting of the country, Kazakh socialist Aynur Karamov explains.
This isn’t normal
Capitalism and the COVID-19 pandemic
by TempestAn upcoming Tempest Collective event on the role of capitalism in exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic.
From union to workers’ council
J.T. Murphy’s rank and file strategy for revolution
by Avery WearAvery Wear argues that rank and file workplace organization can offer a path to revolutionary workers’ power.
Taking on the Philippine axis of evil
An interview with Walden Bello
by Ashley SmithTempest’s Ashley Smith interviews activist and author Waldon Bello about the situation in the Philippines and his run for vice president in the May 9 election.
Socialism & the Kitchen Sink
A crossword for comrades
by Camila ValleCamila Valle presents a crossword for the left.
CTU in the crosshairs
by Joe Allen
Joe Allen looks at the recent attacks on the Chicago Teachers Union, and its democratically elected leadership, by the mainstream press, big business, and elements of the Democratic Party.
The best offense is more clinic defense
by Anonymous
An abortion provider discusses the tactic of clinic defense, and why it’s necessary to defend abortion rights.