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  • On the right, in yellow on a dark green background, cafeteria workers dish out food. On the left, the tower at Dartmouth is behind a protest sign reading "Living Staff, Living Wage."

    Victory for the Dartmouth student workers

    Tempest member Nancy Welch interviews Grace Hillery, a sophomore and member of the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth, on their recent union contract victory for student workers.

  • Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century

    Panelists on Tempest’s Building the Revolutionary Left Today panel present the questions and takeaways from their experiences in the revolutionary Left.

  • Hal Draper’s America as Overlord

    Samuel Farber provides the foreword in the Haymarket-published book America as Overlord, a collection of essays written by Hal Draper in the 1950s and 1960s on the role of U.S. imperialism from World War II to the Vietnam War.

  • An aerial image of Burlington Vermont with an ink drawing of a police car following a Black Lives Matter March.

    Fund services, not police and prisons!

    A panel of Vermont activists spoke out on police, prisons, and capitalism in late January. Speakers took up the need to fund social services and defund police and prisons. The event highlighted a specific reform—community control of police—that is on the local ballot in Burlington on March 7.

  • A crowd of students marches carrying a banner reading "ISU works because we do."

    Revolutionary graduate worker unionism

    Graduate worker Steven Lazaroff considers what it means to be a revolutionary in graduate student unions on the basis of his experience at Illinois State University, where the ISU Graduate Workers Union won a significant victory.

  • Two photos show different sets of people standing in front of the same vehicle, a silver four by four pickup vehicle. The vehicle has a flag laid on top of its front hood that says “GMB. WORKING TOGETHER.” The left image shows a person wearing a t-shirt that says ‘UKRAINIAN’ holding the left corner of a Ukrainian flag that has a handwritten message written on the flag’s yellow stripe. The message’s lettering are too faint to discern specific words. Another person holds the right corner of the flag. The right image captures the same person wearing the shirt that says ‘UKRAINIAN’ with two people wearing red shirts with the British National Union of Mineworkers logo. One of them holds up a piece of fabric with text that says ‘SUPPORT UKRAINE.’ Above the text is the NUM logo and below is the Ukrainian flag.

    Ukraine, Palestine, and internationalism

    Ashley Smith of the Tempest Collective interviews Vladyslav Starodubstev on the one-year anniversary of the war about the struggle for internationalist solidarity in Ukraine and Palestine.

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