Category: Interview

  • In the crosshairs of AI (part three)

    In the crosshairs of AI (part three)

    Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part three proposes organizing interventions and strategies of resistance for the Left.

  • In the crosshairs of AI (part two)

    In the crosshairs of AI (part two)

    Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part two explores AI’s connection to global labor, climate, and imperialism struggles.

  • In the crosshairs of AI

    In the crosshairs of AI

    Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left.

  • Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis

    Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis

    Earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela in quick succession on June 24. Gonzalo Gómez speaks to Tempest about the official and popular responses to the quakes.

  • Building an anti-fascist city

    Building an anti-fascist city

    Aaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.

  • Solidarity with striking ICE hostages!

    Solidarity with striking ICE hostages!

    Tempest interviews Izzy, a NYC activist, about their experiences in organizing in support of the strikers and their families at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center.

  • Ukrainians in solidarity with Palestine 

    Ukrainians in solidarity with Palestine 

    Ashley Smith interviews Andriy Movchan about their participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla and its significance for building solidarity between Ukrainians and Palestinians and their liberation struggles.

  • War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia

    War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia

    Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.

  • Kids Over Corporations

    Kids Over Corporations

    Amid worsening conditions in North Carolina’s public schools, teacher and organizer Carla Harris discusses the May Day “Kids Over Corporations” action, the broader crisis facing educators and school workers, and efforts to build collective power across the state in this interview with Anderson Bean.

  • ICE and the Police State

    ICE and the Police State

    Tempest interviews Alec Karakatsanis and brian bean about ICE, the police state, and the tasks for abolitionists today.