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  • Inside Die Linke

    Sean Larson sat down with Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer of the revolutionary socialist group marx21 to discuss Die Linke’s recent election success and the challenges facing the party and the Left in Germany.

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    Bay Area teachers rally to defend public education and protest ICE 

    A report on the May 17 California-wide day of action in defense of public education, a demonstration which amplified calls of solidarity and targeted the Trump administration, its racism, and its attacks on the working class and our communities. 

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    Michael Gloss’s real and imaginary wars

    Anatoly Dobrynin examines the conditions that enabled leftist student Michael Gloss to fight on the side of Putin’s Russia against Ukraine and die in the service of Russian imperialism.

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    Fighting Oligarchy 

    Teto Huezo delivers a critical assessment of  Bernie Sanders’ and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy Tour

  • Only the beginning of the struggle

    Tempest comrades from a number of cities report on their involvement in recent May Day actions. 

  • The Professoriate v. Trump

    The actions signal the beginnings of a convergence between academic labor organizing, Palestine solidarity work, and immigrant defense networks. They demonstrate a necessary and healthy development in the response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on immigrants, trans people, education, working people, and civil liberties, but they are only a first step.

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    CVS workers mobilize for a fair contract

    Nestor Salvador reports on a rally of union members and supporters in Los Angeles targeting corporate giant, CVS Health.

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    Bangladesh in revolution

    Nagesh Rao speaks about the movement that overthrew Sheikh Hasina and the openings it has created to reshape life in Bangladesh. 

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    Lenin, Luxemburg, and the revolutionary tradition 

    Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc respond to John Marot, offering a clarification of their position on Rosa Luxemburg.

  • The genocidal returns of lesser-evilism

    The Tempest Collective panel at the Socialism 2024 conference.

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    The RNC does the Teamsters

    Andy Sernatinger analyzes the recent overtures of the Sean O’Brien-led Teamsters to the Trumpite right and the Republican Party and sees consistency in O’Brien’s own politics over almost twenty years.

  • Haikus for the DNC

    Poet, activist, and teacher Demetrius Noble shares poems arising from the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

  • Prioritizing independent political action

    Tom Harrison makes the case for a broad party of the Left and for Tempest to carry this argument in its political work within the movements.

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    The politics of the aesthetic

    Andrew Boyer calls our attention to the dark side of “sparking joy” through self-improvement and personal aesthetics, such as those represented by tidying guru Marie Kondo.

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    Luxemburg’s lessons and the roots of Stalinism

    In a follow up to his article, Rosa Luxemburg and the democratic road to socialist revolution, John Marot responds to Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc.