New Articles
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Build healthy communities, not prisons
A transcript of a speech last month by Jayna Ahsaf, an organizer with the Vermont chapter of the FreeHer campaign from the abolitionists group the National Council speaking to activists on the need for a long-term campaign to abolish prisons and fund people and healthy communities.
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This is what solidarity looks like!
Alex Schmaus interviews UTLA member Thalía Cataño and SEIU Local 99 member Rosalba Romero— both of whom work at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles—about the successful strike in March.
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May Days
May 1 is International Workers’ Day. In this short essay, Joe Allen recounts the experience of the walking tour at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, where there is a monument to the May 1, 1886 uprising and the bloody confrontation on May 3 between police and workers–and ultimately, the execution of four militants involved in the uprising.
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Get off Twitter and get into the (online) streets
With the Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 set to expire next month, Mary Jirmanus Saba and Zoey Thill, members of the People’s CDC, write about the role Twitter has played during the pandemic among public health and disability justice activists, and they argue in this piece for moving beyond the platform’s limitations to reclaim the…
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A French spring
Tempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard regarding the mass uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.
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Intersectional organizing wall-to-wall at Rutgers
Tempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and AAUP-AFT leader Deepa Kumar about how the union united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the higher education labor movement.
Recent Articles
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What’s become of the rank and file strategy?
Mel Bienenfeld traces the evolution of the debates around the rank and file strategy within New York City Democratic Socialists of America and DSA nationally.
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Reports from the front
Report from Linda Loew on a Chicago protest against General Iron’s air pollution.
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On (not) expelling Jamaal Bowman
After weeks of public debate about DSA’s relationship to Congressional Representative Jamaal Bowman, DSA’s leadership announced that they will not expel Bowman. Andy Sernatinger reports on how the crisis unfolded and examines the forces at play.
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Tempest Collective inaugural convention report
A brief report from the first convention of the Tempest Collective, by the newly elected Steering Committee.
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Solidarity with Sawant
On behalf of the Tempest Collective, William Gifis calls for solidarity with Kshama Sawant in the December 7 recall election.
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Do comrades cross picket lines?
brian bean responds to Hadas Thier’s article in Jacobin, “No, DSA Shouldn’t Expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman”.
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Four distinct approaches to revolutionary organization
A slightly edited version of a short talk by Aaron Amaral on perspective for the revolutionary Left, given at the 2021 Tempest Convention.
