Category: Article
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Not essential? Brainerd grocery workers fight back
Paul KD reports on a new contract for grocery workers at five stores in and around Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Electoral advances for the revolutionary left in Argentina
Natalia Tylim interviews Cele Fierro following an electoral breakthrough for the revolutionary Left in Argentina.
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Not so…grrrrrrreat!
The eleven-week strike against Kellogg’s ended on December 21 when workers represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers’ International Union (BCTGM) ratified the latest contract proposal (Agreement). The biggest issue for most of the 1,400 strikers was ending the longstanding two-tier wage and employment structure, which condemned a large part of the…
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When Comic Books Threatened the U.S.A. (and the world)
Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today.
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Eleanor Marx and the case for Christmas trees
Aaron Amaral on EP Thompson’s writing on Eleanor Marx and the meaning of the Christmas tree.
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Building a mass movement with no apologism
Within and outside DSA, many on the Left have aligned themselves with the Communist Party of China (CPC). Guest author Travis S. submitted this piece to Tempest in the interest of furthering debate on the question of how the left should relate to the CPC. He explores the contradictions and implications of tying the Left…
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Nothing natural about this disaster
Thomas Hummel discusses how climate change-fueled tornadoes and corporate greed caused the deaths of workers at Amazon and Mayfield Consumer Products in the Midwest.
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What’s become of the rank and file strategy?
Mel Bienenfeld traces the evolution of the debates around the rank and file strategy within New York City Democratic Socialists of America and DSA nationally.
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Reports from the front
Report from Linda Loew on a Chicago protest against General Iron’s air pollution.
