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The politics of degrowth
Degrowth identifies and critiques growth as fundamental to the capitalist system. Growth enriches property owners and the wealthy, leaving the rest of humanity behind with devastating environmental consequences. Tempest member Paul Fleckenstein interviews Gareth Dale on the politics of degrowth and the critique of the ideology of growth in capitalist society.
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Get ready for a fiery fall
Tempest’s Dana Cloud surveys the year’s labor struggles in higher education and concludes that the moment may be right for another surge.
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Bring us your huddled masses…we got something for ‘em
Aaron Amaral reports on one of the latest of two hundred sites in New York City where newly arriving asylum seekers are being temporarily warehoused, and the contradictory community response.
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Perspectives for socialists today
In this talk delivered in June 2023 at the Tempest NYC Marxism day school, Natalia Tylim explains the importance of revolutionary organization and suggests directions for Tempest today. This is the second in an ongoing series of articles from our regional Marxism schools that took place earlier this summer. It has been lightly edited for…
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”Indigenous communities are leading the struggle in Jujuy”
This summer, the province of Jujuy in Argentina exploded in protest against constitutional reforms with the indigenous communities at the forefront. The backdrop to this conflict is an anti-imperialist fight for control of the country’s resources. Warren Montag, Jimena Vergara, and Joseph Serrano interview Argentinian socialist activist and professor Gastón Remy.
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Why don’t they just negotiate?
In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman observes the limits of pacifism while children die and catastrophe looms.
Recent Articles
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The fight back to defend abortion rights begins
Tempest follows up on last week’s series of reports from the front with additional abortion rights protests and more upcoming actions this weekend around the country in response to the leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Next steps to regain abortion rights
Even though popular support for abortion rights stands at more than two-thirds, the Supreme Court seems dead set on overturning Roe v. Wade. Haley Pessin and Natalia Tylim look at why this majority hasn’t ruled in official politics and the kind of organizing it will take to turn things around.
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The left wing of the possible?
Bill Keach reviews A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism by Doug Greene.
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Relief, anti-climax, and glimmers of hope
Sylvestre Jaffard analyses last month’s election results in the French presidential election, including the prospects for a rejuvenated Left challenge in the June legislative vote.
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Anti-choice bigots stopped in NYC
Haley Pessin reports on this weekend’s victory by New York City for Abortion Rights.
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Roe under attack, time to fight back!
Tempest reports on abortion rights protests and upcoming actions around the country in response to the leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Fighting for trans and queer liberation
A transcript from the Tempest Collective sponsored panel on April 24, 2022.
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Rally in defense of abortion and bodily autonomy
Some 150 people rallied in Burlington, Vermont on the evening of May 3, 2002, at the Federal Building. The event was called by Planned Parenthood. The first speakers were Vermont Democratic Party Congressman, Peter Welch, and Lt. Governor, Molly Gray, both remarking on the breathtaking and shocking nature of the Supreme Court’s draft decision, and…
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The tragedy of Puerto Rico
Rafael Bernabe situates the political challenges facing Puerto Rico and, through the lens of Lenin in 1905, calls for a more explicit focus on capitalism as the problem, and the need to “organize pessimism” to retrieve the kernel of hope necessary for the fights ahead.