Category: Article

  • Solidarity with Twin City educators

    Solidarity with Twin City educators

    A transcript from the March 3 roundtable event to discuss the context of the ongoing Minneapolis educators strike.

  • Stop Putin’s war!

    Stop Putin’s war!

    Ashley Smith argues for the historic importance of the Russian attacks on Ukraine, the need to unconditionally oppose the invasion, and the political basis on which a viable challenge to the imperialists threats to world must be based.

  • Victory to the Minneapolis strikers!

    Victory to the Minneapolis strikers!

    Darrin Hoop reports on the Minneapolis educators’ strike, beginning today, on International Womens’ Day. He highlights how the anti-racist fight is at the center of the demands of the strike and the political energies earned from the struggle for justice for George Floyd.

  • A new face for old politics

    A new face for old politics

    Ben Rosenfield profiles the rise of Eric Adams from police officer to Mayor of New York City in the era of Black Lives Matter.

  • It’s a bird, It’s a plane…no, it’s a union!

    It’s a bird, It’s a plane…no, it’s a union!

    Hank Kennedy situates the recent organizing drive of workers at Image comics into a longer history of efforts at Union organizing in that industry.

  • The rise of Ilhan Omar

    The rise of Ilhan Omar

    Shamus Cooke assesses the record of Representative Ilhan Omar and what her autobiography reveals about her political trajectory.

  • When commonsense fails

    When commonsense fails

    This article was originally published in Spectre Journal. The following is an edited version, condensed for readability. The full-text can be read here.

  • Fascism is as Canadian as the maple leaf

    Fascism is as Canadian as the maple leaf

    Todd Gordon puts the ongoing protest known as the “Freedom Convoy”, that started in Canada’s capital city and then spread, in its historical context with that country’s other fascist and far-right movements.

  • Russia out of Ukraine!

    Russia out of Ukraine!

    Tempest Collective statement in opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Erin Cass writes on behalf of the Steering Committee.

  • Defeating the legacy of Pinochet

    Defeating the legacy of Pinochet

    Joaquín Araneda and Luis Meiners situate the recent electoral breakthrough for the Left in Chile in both the recent insurrectionary uprising of October 2019, and the longer term processes in Chile  from the Pinochet dictatorship, and the period of custodial democracy from 1990 to 2021.