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Photo of a city covered in smog.
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The smoke is at our door

by Julia Corrado

Julia Corrado reflects on the impacts of climate change and the Canadian wildfires, arguing that environmental disaster requires more than the market-based solutions on offer.
People stand witnessing the rubble of a building destroyed by the earthquake.
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The earthquake in Türkiye and Syria

The fault lines of counterrevolution, authoritarianism, racism, and capitalism

 by Shireen Akram-Boshar

On Monday, February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (followed by another earthquake of 7.5 magnitude) struck southern Türkiye and northwest Syria in the early hours of the morning. Tempest Collective member Shireen Akram-Boshar explains that this tragedy is fundamentally political, affected by the fault lines of counterrevolution, authoritarianism, racism, and capitalism.