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  • A blue-filtered photo of the back of a crowd holding anti-ICE signs in front of a building.

    The January 30 general strike: A success even if it wasn’t a strike

    When mass outrage broke out against ICE repression in January, Somali students in Minneapolis called for nationwide walkouts on January 30. Whether the result was a strike or not, says Frances Bolger, this well-timed call gave students and others around the country a chance to make important strides in self-organization.

  • A photo of Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores edited in front of a map of Venezuela.

    In the time of predators

    In this interview translated by Hector Rivera, Antoine Larrache asks Franck Gaudichaud about his analysis of events in Venezuela and Latin America.

  • A yellow-filtered photo of an empty classroom.

    Public education under attack

    NYC public school teacher Danielle Bullock discusses the “shock and awe” school reform of the Trump era with teachers from Oklahoma, Kansas, Florida, and Iowa.

  • A map of Iran and Iraq with two red pins in the map.

    Iran’s liberators and their ledger books

    Sirantos Fotopoulos picks apart the reasons for the assault on Iran.

  • A green and red filtered photo of a crowd marching with signs written in Arabic.

    The Kurds and the Syrian revolutionary process

    Joseph Daher writes about the evolution of Kurdish politics after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and argues that the liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular classes as a whole are bound together.

  • A pink-filtered photo of a hospital building overlayed with outlines of people carrying signs.

    We are not the same nurses who went out on strike

    An interview with three rank-and-file strike leaders from the recently concluded nurses strike in New York City.

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  • A burnt orange background with a yellow rectangle in the middle. Inside the rectangle in black capitalized text says DAILY STRUGGLE, with the logo between the two words. The logo is a gear shape being held up by hands of all skin colors, and inside the gear is a wrench crossed with a pen and pencil.

    Introducing the UAWD’s Daily Struggle

    UAWD, a rank-and-file caucus within UAW, is holding a launch event this Sunday, October 19, at 3 pm ET for a new worker-led publication by and for UAW members that will provide a platform for workers to speak for themselves. Register for the event here.

  • A photo of two men in suits, Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn, leaning together, talking. The photo has a red filter over it.

    Rehabilitating McCarthyism

    As Trump continues to escalate his campaign of domestic repression, Tempest offers a perspective from Bill Keach on the repression of another period—the McCarthy era.

  • Two sketch-style portraits of indigenous people, each with feathers in their hair and wearing a necklace. The portrait to the left is filtered in green, the portrait to the right is filtered in orange.

    Indigenous Peoples’ Day

    The Tempest editorial board suggests a list of readings and resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

  • A sketch of two reddish flowers against a muted pinkish background.

    “A huge massacre awaits”

    Tempest’s Shireen Akram-Boshar asked Toufic Haddad to characterize the current phase of the Gaza genocide.

  • A photo of Tom Alter smiling at the camera holding his dog. The photo has a green filter over top of it.

    Statement by the Committee to Defend History Professor Tom Alter

    A call for support for professor fired for speaking at a socialist conference.

  • A drawing. Background: a keffiyeh pattern. Foreground: A woman in a white hijab holds a camera up to her face. A Palestinian flag is in the lens.

    Killing the messengers 

    In the midst of Israel’s ongoing genocide, the editorial board remembers the more than 300 journalists who have been targeted and killed by the state of Israel.

  • A mosaic image of two goldfish facing each other against a background of orange, above a wavy strip of blue.

    Hiding our goals is no way to win

    brian bean and Thomas Hummel respond to Ben Burgis’s recent Jacobin article, “The Point of Politics is to Convince People, Not Grandstand.”

  • An icon of a flag on a pole off to the right. Image is overlaid with red.

    Against the New McCarthyism

    Ashley Smith argues that the Left must reject both the civility trap that liberals and Democrats have fallen into, which simply legitimizes Kirk’s bigotry as debate, and the dead-end of individualist violence. The task for socialists is to advocate and build the capacity to carry out collective organizing, protests, and strikes to advance democratic demands.

  • A huge crowd marches across a bridge. The photo is filtered with a bright green.

    The Mamdani campaign, left horizons, and the “defund the police” question

    Keith Rosenthal discusses the New York City Mayoral race,  Zohran Mamdani’s courting of the New York Police Department (NYPD), and cautions the socialist Left against abandoning racial justice demands.