Category: Article
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The battle of Los Angeles
Tempest members provide a gripping account of the rise of pro-immigrant resistance and police and military backlash in Los Angeles.
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Assessing the queer fightback
Within a few days of Trump’s first anti-trans executive order, protests were called, and trans people and their allies began to gather in large numbers to demonstrate their opposition in NYC and beyond. To grow and sustain this opposition, it is important for organizers to recount and reflect on the shape and form of struggle…
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Prospects for organized mass struggle
Mel Bienenfeld offers an optimistic assessment of the emerging struggles against Trumpism and calls for greater organization.
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Building solidarity in auto: across the shop floor, across the borders
An interview with UAW Local 160 member and skilled mold-maker, Jessie Kelly, about Trump, tariff policy, U.S. nationalism and the struggle to build an internationalist and solidaristic class politics on the shop floor and within the Union.
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NYC teachers may toss out union leaders
The country’s biggest teachers’ union may vote for a major change, but a three-way election is making the results hard to predict. Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien explain what’s at stake.
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Inside Die Linke
Sean Larson sat down with Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer of the revolutionary socialist group marx21 to discuss Die Linke’s recent election success and the challenges facing the party and the Left in Germany.
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Bay Area teachers rally to defend public education and protest ICE
A report on the May 17 California-wide day of action in defense of public education, a demonstration which amplified calls of solidarity and targeted the Trump administration, its racism, and its attacks on the working class and our communities.
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Michael Gloss’s real and imaginary wars
Anatoly Dobrynin examines the conditions that enabled leftist student Michael Gloss to fight on the side of Putin’s Russia against Ukraine and die in the service of Russian imperialism.
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Fighting Oligarchy
Teto Huezo delivers a critical assessment of Bernie Sanders’ and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy Tour
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Only the beginning of the struggle
Tempest comrades from a number of cities report on their involvement in recent May Day actions.