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California Faculty Association engaged in rolling strikes against the California State University system
Tempest’s Dana Cloud reports on strikes by faculty at the California State University, the largest public university system in the United States. The California Faculty Association has called a system-wide strike for January 22-26.
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Solidarity with Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists
The Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists (CORS) are facing political repression at Ohio State University for its Palestine activism. Tempest shares CORS’s account of the suspension of its student group while rightly calling attention to the wave of McCarthyite tactics by universities across the country. Please sign and circulate the CORS solidarity petition.
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What would it take to win in Palestine?
David Camfield and Charlie Post argue that Palestinian liberation requires a regional revolutionary strategy based on the politics and methods of socialism from below.
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All I want for the holidays is a ceasefire
Scholars Against the War on Palestine called for a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza. Here we reproduce the statement and a partial list of signatories.
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Questions remain for USC international graduate workers after contract win
Tempest’s Promise Li interviews an international graduate student worker at the University of Southern California after the graduate students’ first-ever contract was ratified.
Recent Articles
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Racism has no borders
On August 30, 2021, Roger Wilhelm, a 37-year-old Black man–known to friends and family as “Nzoy”–was killed by police in Morges, Switzerland. Tempest members William Gifis and Haley Pessin talked to Evelyn Wilhelm, who is Nzoy’s sister and runs the Justice 4 Nzoy Switzerland campaign to win justice for her brother.
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Report from the Front: Rally in Pilsen
Joe Allen reports on a tax-Amazon rally in his Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen and nearby Little Village.
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Revolution means smashing the state
Any responsible approach to overcoming capitalism, argues brian bean, must grapple with the need to dismantle the capitalist state and replace it with our own democratic institutions from below.
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Giving credit to the wrong class
Did workers “pivot” toward striking for union recognition because of New Deal legislation, as Eric Blanc claims? Kim Moody looks at what really drove the labor upsurge of the early 1930s.
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The legacy of occupation and the fight for a democratic Iraq
brian bean interviews Workers Against Sectarianism on the struggle against sectarian politics in Iraq.
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Public sector power: Building rank & file organization under Mayor Eric Adams
A Tempest (NYC) public event on union struggles in the City’s public sector.
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UK workers strike back
Daniel Randall reports on the strike wave in Britain and analyzes the dynamics and lessons from the biggest labor upsurge in a generation.
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Neocolonial wastelands
Daniel Johnson reports on the current situation following a 2021 investigation by Greenpeace that revealed how European countries, led by the U.K., Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have shipped millions of tons of waste to Turkey.
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To remember is to fight!
Tempest shares the call of the Russian Socialist Movement for solidarity with Russian anti-war and anti-fascist activists.