Author: Ashley Smith
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After the surreal summit
Ashley Smith analyzes the surreal, chummy meeting between the authoritarian Trump and NYC Mayor Elect and self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and argues that building mass class and social struggle is the only way forward.
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Against the New McCarthyism
Ashley Smith argues that the Left must reject both the civility trap that liberals and Democrats have fallen into, which simply legitimizes Kirk’s bigotry as debate, and the dead-end of individualist violence. The task for socialists is to advocate and build the capacity to carry out collective organizing, protests, and strikes to advance democratic demands.
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Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.
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Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.
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The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Sopho Verdzueli, who are all members of a new Left organization in the country of Georgia. In the midst of high levels of struggle, including one of largest and most sustained mass protests in their country’s history, socialists in Georgia have come together to form…
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Trump seizes power in D.C.
Unlike eight years ago, there is little protest against Trump, who seems all-powerful. But his administration will be prevented from establishing stable rule by its deep internal divisions, policies that will exacerbate not solve the country’s problems, and its tendency to overreach and impose deeply unpopular policies. All of this will inevitably trigger resistance.
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Uprising for democracy in the Caucasus
Tempest’s Ashley Smith and Posle Media’s Ilya Budraitskis interview Georgian activists and scholars Ia Eradze, Luka Nakhutsrishvili, and Lela Rekhviashvili about the roots of the uprising, its trajectory, and Georgia’s place in global capitalism and the imperialist order.
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Part Two: Resisting authoritarian populism
Ashley Smith analyzes the Democrats’ failure to defeat Trump and what it means for the Left.
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Part One: Resisting authoritarian populism
Ashley Smith analyzes the Democrats’ failure to defeat Trump and what it means for the Left.
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Block, squander, disorganize?
Ashley Smith responds to Max Elbaum’s overheated polemic on the question of strategy for socialists in the 2024 elections.