Author: Tempest

  • Why we are going to Socialism 2022! (Part II)

    Why we are going to Socialism 2022! (Part II)

    Three more comrades from the Tempest Collective – Kristen Godfrey, Luis Meiners, Hector Agredano Rivera – offer their reminiscences of the annual Socialism Conference and motivations for everyone to attend this year’s event over Labor Day, September 2-5, 2022.

  • Socialist Perspectives for a World in Crisis

    Socialist Perspectives for a World in Crisis

    An online event giving Tempest’s perspectives on anti-oppression struggles, U.S. politics; the global economy & imperialism, and labor: Sunday, August 21st 2-4pm ET.

  • Taiwan: Caught Between Rival Superpowers

    Taiwan: Caught Between Rival Superpowers

    Tempest interviews Brian Hioe and Wen Liu, two prominent commentators on Taiwanese politics and editors of New Bloom Magazine, about Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit and the geopolitical battle between the U.S. and China over the island.

  • Why we are going to Socialism 2022!

    Why we are going to Socialism 2022!

    Three comrades from the Tempest Collective – Phil Gasper, Haley Pessin, Natalia Tylim – offer their reminiscences of the annual Socialism Conference and motivations for everyone to attend this year’s event over Labor Day, September 2-5, 2022.

  • Nicaragua summons!

    Nicaragua summons!

    This month an International Human Rights Commission made up of parliamentarians, social movement, and human rights leaders from different countries, will be traveling to Costa Rica and from there to the border with Nicaragua to demand access to, and to check on the conditions of, political prisoners held by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and…

  • Inside the Ukrainian Resistance

    Inside the Ukrainian Resistance

    Tempest interviews Alona Liasheva and Denys Pilash about the Ukrainian Resistance, the state of war, the dynamics of class struggle and popular consciousness, and the tasks of the international Left in building solidarity with Ukraine.

  • Revenge of the Essential Worker: What’s Next for Labor in 2022?

    Revenge of the Essential Worker: What’s Next for Labor in 2022?

    With the large turnout and organizing energy at the Labor Notes conference last weekend, the Tempest Collective hosts a public discussion to assess the conference and talk about the challenges and opportunities facing the labor movement.

  • A rebel’s guide to Walter Rodney

    A rebel’s guide to Walter Rodney

    Chinedu Chukwudinma speaks on Walter Rodney’s political legacy and the revived interest in his work for a new generation today.

  • A Tempest-zine discussion w/ Lois Weiner

    A Tempest-zine discussion w/ Lois Weiner

    As part of our bi-weekly discussion forum, the Tempest Collective hosts author Lois Weiner to discuss her recent article, “Capitalism and the changing class room,” this coming Tuesday evening.

  • Fighting the attack on abortion rights

    Fighting the attack on abortion rights

    A transcript from the Tempest Collective sponsored panel on May 22, 2022.