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  • Starving Armenians and very tasty cookies

    The blockade is a form of terrorism, meant to drive people from their homeland. Starvation is a weapon of genocide, but for the moment Artsakh’s residents are doing everything they can to hold on.

  • Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965)

    On the 60th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Hank Kennedy tells the riveting story of a mostly unsung civil rights hero, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the KKK in 1965 and then smeared by the FBI and police.

  • UAW rally in Warren, Michigan

    On August 25, 97 percent of the 150,000 auto workers represented by the UAW voted to authorize a strike if an agreement is not reached before their contracts expire on September 14. Hank Kennedy reports on a rally of the United Auto Workers in Warren, Michigan last weekend before the strike authorization vote.

  • Did the Left wing of the Second International foreshadow the politics of the Third?

    John Marot argues that the politics of the Third International, formed in 1919, did not just carry forward the positions of the Left wing of the Second. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed what the Left thought about workers’ power.

  • Starbucks: the long haul from recognition to a national contract

    Frank Emspak argues that Starbucks workers can win a union and a contract at Starbucks if the labor movement acts like a labor movement.

  • Why are hospitals keeping nurses away from patients in need?

    Tempest member Snehal Shingavi interviews striking union nurses in Kansas and Texas following their historic one-day strike in June against Ascension and the company’s retaliation to lockout the employees from returning to work for three days.

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  • JD Vance overlaid on a picture of the Buffalo shooter and headlines about replacement theory

    J.D. Vance, Replacement Theory, and the 2022 U.S. elections

    Bill V. Mullen reflects on the Ohio Senate campaign of J.D. Vance, in the aftermath of the white supremacist murders in Buffalo, and finds a through line of “Replacement Theory” and emergent fascist politics.

  • Fighting the attack on abortion rights

    Fighting the attack on abortion rights , an on-line Tempest panel Sunday, May  22, 2022 from  2-4 p.m., EDT

  • The fight to defend abortion rights (continued…)

    Tempest follows up on our previous roundup of reports from the front, which covered protests around the country in response to the leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

  • Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today

    Simon Hannah reviews the varied Left positions in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and how to understand Lenin’s position of “revolutionary defeatism” in the current war.

  • Zionists fear the picket

    Joel Reinstein unpacks Liza Featherstone’s recent defense of DSA’s ostensible solidarity with Palestine, and finds logical fallacies and factual mistakes.

  • Israel’s murder of Shireen Abu Akleh

    Joel Reinstein assesses the fallout from the assassination of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military.

  • CTU election

    Joe Allen examines the context of the 2022 CTU elections, the impact of its leadership on Chicago politics, teacher unionism, and the trade union movement nationally, and argues for the importance of a vote for CORE.

  • In memory of Neal Adams

    Hank Kennedy celebrates Neal Adams’ political and artistic contributions to the world of comic books in this obituary.

  • Reflections on building the third camp

    Since the 1960s, Cuban-born Samuel Farber has been an activist and writer with a third camp, anti-capitalist, anti-Stalinist perspective. He talked to Kent Worcester about his political development, his experiences—and his reflections on people, movements, and organizations—from his earliest years to today.