Join Tempest at the Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago!
by Annabelle Guptill & Natalia Tylim
Annabelle Guptill and Natalia Tylim argue for the importance of the upcoming Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago.
Disability justice movements: history and practice
Part two, Socialism and Disability Justice roundtable, Socialism 2022
by Dana Cloud and Nina LozanoIn this second article of two (the first is here) on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Dana Cloud and Nina Lozano explore the history of social movements by people with disabilities and suggest lessons for socialist practice today.
Worker insurgency and the New Deal
The inevitability of hindsight
by Kim MoodyKim Moody interrogates Eric Blanc’s account of the relationship between the Democrats and working-class self-activity in the New Deal era.
Polarization and paralysis
The U.S. after the midterm elections
by Ashley Smith and Charlie PostNow is the time for a critical assessment of the Left’s failed electoral strategy and the shift to a fundamentally different one—an orientation on the independent organization of class and social struggle.
Staughton Lynd (1929–2022)
In remembrance
by Erik KerlEric Kerl offers his personal reminiscence of Staughton Lynd, who died on November 17 at the age of 92. The article first ran in the Haymarket Books blog.
When Iran is free
Ideological struggles within the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement
by FredAmid ongoing protests following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amin in September while in Iranian police custody for several days after being arrested by the morality police, Fred, an Iranian socialist, analyzes the government’s harsh response, the different ideological factions that are within the “woman, life, freedom” movement, and where these opposition forces are situated in a future post-regime Iran.
The making of a Black Bolshevik
A review of Winston James’s new biography of Claude McKay
by Bill MullenBill Mullen argues that McKay deserves a good Marxist biographer and has found one in Winston James.
Why we are going to Socialism 2022! (Part II)
by Tempest
Three more comrades from the Tempest Collective – Kristen Godfrey, Luis Meiners, Hector Agredano Rivera – offer their reminiscences of the annual Socialism Conference and motivations for everyone to attend this year’s event over Labor Day, September 2-5, 2022.
Why we are going to Socialism 2022!
by Tempest
Three comrades from the Tempest Collective – Phil Gasper, Haley Pessin, Natalia Tylim – offer their reminiscences of the annual Socialism Conference and motivations for everyone to attend this year’s event over Labor Day, September 2-5, 2022.
Four distinct approaches to revolutionary organization
by Aaron Amaral
A slightly edited version of a short talk by Aaron Amaral on perspective for the revolutionary Left, given at the 2021 Tempest Convention.