New Articles
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Comprehending the Russian-Ukrainian War
Paul Le Blanc reviews Marxist theory and history and concludes that revolutionaries today need to defend the current resistance to the Russian invasion including its right to seek arms.
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Demonstrations for a free Palestine continue
Three Tempest members report on demonstrations in New York City for Palestinian self-determination and a ceasefire.
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“Mohammed El-Kurd will not be silenced”
Mohammed El-Kurd will speak remotely at the University of Vermont today after the administration caved to groundless complaints of antisemitism.
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Settler colonial violence from the Dakota Uprising to Gaza
Brian Ward writes about the Dakota’s resistance to U.S. settler colonialism and its parallels with the current situation in Gaza.
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Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson is not on our side
Joe Allen responds to a Tempest article on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s role in passing a pro-Israel resolution before the city council.
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Public sector strike on the horizon in Québec
Benoit Renaud looks at some of the dynamics and challenges surrounding a likely public sector strike in Québec.
Recent Articles
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Defend Walden Bello!
Information on the arrest of Philippine activist, intellectual, and politician Walden Bello and a call to build a campaign in his defense.
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The rise and fall of progressivism in Latin America
Anderson Bean reviews The Impasse of the Latin American Left, a new book by Frank Gaudichaud, Massimo Modones, and Jeffery R. Webber on the experience of the Latin American Left, over the last couple of decades, in and out of power.
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Sri Lanka’s democratic revolution
Months of protests brought down Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last month. Scholar-activist Rohini Hensman situates this victory as one step in a protracted struggle for democracy in Sri Lanka.
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Competing visions of the BDS Boston Mapping Project
Naomi Bennet critically unpacks the controversy over the BDS Boston Mapping Project.
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The Vietnam War in comics, after the war
In the follow-up to an earlier article looking at the representation of the Vietnam War in mainstream U.S. comics, Hank Kennedy focuses on the years following the formal conclusion of the war.
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Dropping like flies
Joe Allen shares stories of UPS drivers endangered by the lack of air conditioning in delivery vehicles and the company’s failure to respond.
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In the struggle for abortion rights, capitalism is the enemy
Nancy Welch of the Tempest Collective and Upper Valley for Abortion Rights delivered these remarks on the fight to rewin abortion rights at a recent meeting of Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Origins of the rank and file strategy
Kim Moody, a veteran of the International Socialists, explains the roots of the rank and file strategy in the Marxist tradition and how the International Socialists (U.S.) tried to put it into practice by diving into the rank and file rebellions of the 1970s.
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A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney
A presentation by Chinedu Chukwudinma at a Tempest panel event on June 22, 2022.