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    This recession is an ambush

    Portland socialist Shamus Cooke has warned that the ruling class is conjuring up a recession to wipe out recent workers’ gains. Here he writes that we need a national response that combines action from below with steps toward workers’ political independence.

  • Making sense of the Ukraine war

    Eric Draitser critically reviews War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies, which, he argues, sees the entirety of the conflict through the lens of U.S.-NATO aggression without making even a perfunctory attempt to engage with the many other critical aspects of the war.

  • Stills of a video of the police shooting of an Oklahoma meatpacking worker at Seaboard Foods.

    Cop murder on the production line

    Paul KD reports on the police murder of 26-year-old Sudanese immigrant Chiewelthap Mariar on the floor of the Oklahoma meatpacking plant where he was working.

  • international days of protest against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.

    Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

    Tempest Collective member, Ashley Smith, interviews Ivan Ovsyannikov, a Russian journalist, leftist activist, and trade union organizer on the international days of protest on January 19 through 24, 2023  called against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.

  • Nzoy, a young Black man, looks contemplative in this portrait. He wears a ball cap. The image is purple on a green background.

    Racism has no borders

    On August 30, 2021, Roger Wilhelm, a 37-year-old Black man–known to friends and family as “Nzoy”–was killed by police in Morges, Switzerland. Tempest members William Gifis and Haley Pessin talked to Evelyn Wilhelm, who is Nzoy’s sister and runs the Justice 4 Nzoy Switzerland campaign to win justice for her brother.

  • Report from the Front: Rally in Pilsen

    Joe Allen reports on a tax-Amazon rally in his Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen and nearby Little Village.

Recent Articles

  • Imperialist Keynesianism

    Ashley Smith contextualizes the Biden administration program, and argues that it represents a Keynesian break from decades of neo-liberal policy. However, it is a break driven in the first instance by the imperative to rehabilitate the profitability of U.S. capitalism and U.S. imperial power.

  • View from the warehouse floor

    Malli Nath writes of their experience as a Texas Fed Ex warehouse worker in light of the murders at an Indianapolis warehouse, the failed BAmazon organizing effort, and popular cultural representation of logistics work.

  • A truck full of sensors

    A Teamster in Oklahoma City describes how UPS uses new surveillance technology to undermine the union.

  • The Black Legion and beyond.

    Hank Kennedy looks at the history of far right organizing in Michigan and the meaning of its recent resurgence.

  • Defeat in Bessemer

    Longtime socialist and Teamster, Joe Allen, critically assesses both the defeat of the Amazon organizing drive as well as the limitations of the lessons being drawn by some on the Left.

  • The Paris Commune and workers’ democracy

    Thomas Hummel draws some of the principled lessons of the Paris Commune that have guided the socialist Left for 150 years, and asks how today’s Left measures up in having learned those lessons.

  • Addressing the climate emergency with a Biden government

    Paul Fleckenstein reviews the state of the climate movement and climate policy at the start of the Biden era.

  • No war, no KKK

    Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.

  • Organizing Amazon

    Joe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama