New Articles
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They gave their life to Stop Cop City
Tempest member Leandro Herrera speaks with an Atlanta Forest defender about Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (aka Tortuguita), a beloved activist part of the Stop Cop City campaign who was murdered by police in January.
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Victory for the Dartmouth student workers
Tempest member Nancy Welch interviews Grace Hillery, a sophomore and member of the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth, on their recent union contract victory for student workers.
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Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century
Panelists on Tempest’s Building the Revolutionary Left Today panel present the questions and takeaways from their experiences in the revolutionary Left.
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Hal Draper’s America as Overlord
Samuel Farber provides the foreword in the Haymarket-published book America as Overlord, a collection of essays written by Hal Draper in the 1950s and 1960s on the role of U.S. imperialism from World War II to the Vietnam War.
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Fund services, not police and prisons!
A panel of Vermont activists spoke out on police, prisons, and capitalism in late January. Speakers took up the need to fund social services and defund police and prisons. The event highlighted a specific reform—community control of police—that is on the local ballot in Burlington on March 7.
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Revolutionary graduate worker unionism
Graduate worker Steven Lazaroff considers what it means to be a revolutionary in graduate student unions on the basis of his experience at Illinois State University, where the ISU Graduate Workers Union won a significant victory.
Recent Articles
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Hurricane Maria four years later
Paul Figueroa analyzes the state of settler colonialism and disaster capitalism obstructing self-determination for Puerto Rico four years after Hurricane Maria.
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Cutting history to fit a model
Kim Moody responds to Eric Blanc’s piece on the origins of the Labour Party and “the dirty break.”
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The IPCC Report and the socialist way forward
Thomas Hummel elaborates on the ecological and political implications of the most recent IPCC report.
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Ten years since Occupy Wall Street
Tempest Collective members reflect on the ten-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
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Twenty years since 9/11
On the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Phil Gasper explains the historical relationship between U.S. imperialism and the jihadist groups in the Middle East.
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The outlines of opposition in a post-Trump U.S.A.
Peter Ikeler assesses the multi-dimensional crises facing the U.S., the development of antagonistic social movements under the pressure of these crises, and offers some tentative strategic conclusions on the question of organization for the U.S. Left.
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From militant to Washington insider
Tim Goulet discusses the life and death of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.
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Atlanta was a watershed
Pranav Jani examines the new wave of organizing against anti-Asian racism and why the Left must deepen our understanding of its impact and origins as we strive to build solidarity.
