New Articles

  • An illustration of five nurses protesting outside and holding up various signs. The signs are cropped photos of some of the signs that NNU nurses held up during the January rallies. One sign reads: National Nurses Organizing Committee: SAFE STAFFING SAVES LIVES. Another reads: STAFF UP! FOR SAFE CARE. END CRISIS NOW. Another reads: PATIENT HEALTH BEFORE KAISER WEALTH. The last reads: UNSAFE STAFFING = INCREASED VIOLENCE. The illustration’s colors reflect the two main reddish and maroon colors of the NNU logo.

    You don’t want your nurse to be overworked

    Tempest member Snehal Shingavi spoke to four nurses in Texas who participated in rallies last month to protest understaffing at a number of major hospitals.

  • Nazi symbolism superimposed upon an image of the U.S.Capitol.

    DC’s friends of fascism

    Hank Kennedy uncovers a domestic history of fascist supporters in the halls of powers and finds a line of continuity and important comparisons to this generation of Washington D.C. ultra-reactionaries.

  • blurred images of tents and protest signs on behalf of non-tenure-track faculty

    Faculty unionization and the legacy of Blackburn:

    Howard University faculty members Sean Pears and Jacob Sloan describe how student militancy fueled struggle on the part of non-tenure-track faculty.

  • A large pink fish containing a school of small fish labeled rank and file democracy eats fish representing business and electoral unionism and money on blue-green background.

    Toward a rank-and-file caucus in UCU

    Dan Davison makes the argument for a rank-and-file strategy given the state of the higher education strikes in the United Kingdom and the debates within the University and College Union.

  • People stand witnessing the rubble of a building destroyed by the earthquake.

    The earthquake in Türkiye and Syria

    On Monday, February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (followed by another earthquake of 7.5 magnitude) struck southern Türkiye and northwest Syria in the early hours of the morning. Tempest Collective member Shireen Akram-Boshar explains that this tragedy is fundamentally political, affected by the fault lines of counterrevolution, authoritarianism, racism, and capitalism.

  • A multi-colored collage of signs, many of the signs read "TAs & RAs ON STRIKE!" repeated multiple times in a green background with black text, and others have red signs, some of them read "RESPECT US RESPECT OUR STUDENTS" and others have the message "TEMPLE WORKS BECAUSE WE DO."

    Graduate workers strike at Temple!

    Tempest’s Joel Sronce interviews two striking graduate workers from Temple University.

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