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  • Striking back! Labor strategy in the pandemic

    This is a lightly edited transcript of the panel on labor struggle and strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the Tempest Collective. It features Elizabeth Lalasz, Kirstin Roberts, Kim Moody, and Joe Burns, and is chaired by Paul KD.

  • Ukraine shows the urgency for an anti-war movement

    In the face of daily news out of Ukraine, Joe Allen writes on the recent history of the anti-war movement to explain its current weak state, and to point to the urgency of rebuilding it.

  • Inside the Kazakhstan revolt

    The uprising of January 2–8, 2022 was a revolt against inequality, unemployment, and the looting of the country, Kazakh socialist Aynur Karamov explains.

  • This isn’t normal

    An upcoming Tempest Collective event on the role of capitalism in exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • From union to workers’ council

    Avery Wear argues that rank and file workplace organization can offer a path to revolutionary workers’ power.

  • Taking on the Philippine axis of evil

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews activist and author Waldon Bello about the situation in the Philippines and his run for vice president in the May 9 election.

  • Socialism & the Kitchen Sink

    Camila Valle presents a crossword for the left.

  • CTU in the crosshairs

    Joe Allen looks at the recent attacks on the Chicago Teachers Union, and its democratically elected leadership, by the mainstream press, big business, and elements of the Democratic Party.

  • The best offense is more clinic defense

    An abortion provider discusses the tactic of clinic defense, and why it’s necessary to defend abortion rights.