Articles

  • Trump is sunk 

    The Tempest National Committee describes Donald Trump’s declining popularity and potential ruthlessness that must be met by social movements from below.

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    In defense of abolition

    A discussion on abolition is being hosted by the Tempest Collective POC Caucus this Saturday, October 24 at 2 pm ET.

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    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.

  • An illustration of a human head, x-rayed with a brain in it.

    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.

  • An illustration of a human head, x-rayed with a brain in it.

    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.

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    The gang rape at Cornell

    Dana Cloud puts the rape at Cornell in the context of a socialist analysis of gender violence and the fight for women’s liberation.

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    Anti-Woke electoralism

    Hakan Yilmaz argues that flip-flopping on wokeness is a byproduct of the electoralist logic embraced by right-wing DSA caucuses that make up DSA’s leadership majority, and that discounting movements that center the rights of oppressed communities moves the socialist movement away from the long-term goal of building strong and democratic working-class organizations.

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    We have to do something

    Ohio professor and activist Pranav Jani interviews organizer Kristen Guptill-Godfrey about solidarity and socialist organizing.

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    The economics of U.S. imperialism (part 1)

    Despite mounting corporate debt and a disastrous war on Iran, the U.S. economy is powering ahead—led by the investment boom in AI. G. Stewart explores the resilience of the economy and the contradictions that threaten to undermine it.

  • A crowd of people holding Ukranian flags.

    Ukraine Needs International Solidarity as Russia Escalates Its Aggression

    We need to strengthen global working-class solidarity with the Ukrainian working class and their self-organization during the continued devastation of the war, argues the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) in this republished statement.

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    Workers will fight for their self-interest

    Kim Moody assesses some recent writings and interview by Catalyst editor and podcaster Professor Vivek Chibber on state planning, market socialism and the transition to socialism.

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    In defense of abolition

    As prominent leftists and progressives scramble to walk back their previous commitments to “woke” demands, the Tempest National Committee explains why abolition politics is fundamental to socialism.