Graduate workers strike at Temple!
Interview with two members of the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA)
by Joel SronceTempest’s Joel Sronce interviews two striking graduate workers from Temple University.
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.
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.
Confronting authoritarian neoliberalism: the challenges facing the Left
Interview with Warren Montag by Dimitris Givisis
by Warren Montag and Dimitris GivisisWarren Montag, in this interview with Dimitris Givisis, offers global perspectives for the current capitalist conjuncture.
The Foxconn uprising in Zhengzhou
The explosive nexus of labor and social reproduction in China
by Promise LiChinese feminist researcher Yige Dong provides context to the labor uprising at the Apple iPhone Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou and its relationship to the broader uprising in China.
“We were marked for extinction, but we are still here.”
An interview with Indigenous organizer Maria Whitehorse
by Avery Wear and Brian WardAvery Wear and Brian Ward interview Maria Whitehorse on organizing in San Diego to support Indigenous people and combat settler colonialism.
War and resistance in Putin’s Russia
An Interview with Ilya Budraitskis
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith interviews Ilya Budraitskis on the growing political opposition to Putin’s regime following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and its recent battlefield losses.
Solidarity with fired UPS Teamster
Reports from the front
by Thomas HummelThomas Hummel interviews UPS Teamster and socialist Ben Douglass about their firing and the campaign for reinstatement.
The long hot summer (& autumn) for UK labor
An interview with Ian Allinson on the strike and organizing wave
by Joe Allen and Ian AllinsonJoe Allen interviewed Ian Allinson, a member of rs21 and former rank-and-file socialist candidate for General Secretary of Unite the Union in 2017, and the author of Workers Can Win!: A Guide to Organizing at Work published by Pluto Press.