New Articles
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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.
Recent Articles
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Defeat in Bessemer
Longtime socialist and Teamster, Joe Allen, critically assesses both the defeat of the Amazon organizing drive as well as the limitations of the lessons being drawn by some on the Left.
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The Paris Commune and workers’ democracy
Thomas Hummel draws some of the principled lessons of the Paris Commune that have guided the socialist Left for 150 years, and asks how today’s Left measures up in having learned those lessons.
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Addressing the climate emergency with a Biden government
Paul Fleckenstein reviews the state of the climate movement and climate policy at the start of the Biden era.
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No war, no KKK
Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.
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Organizing Amazon
Joe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama
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Socialists and the BAmazon Union
Nasrin discusses the lack of a coordinated response from the Democratic Socialists of America to what could be the most significant union election in the South in decades.
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Electoral politics ≠ Black liberation
Phillip Clark assesses the current political moment and argues that Black liberation cannot be realized through electoral politics.
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Texas freeze
Texas-based socialist Snehal Shingavi dissects the most common explanations for the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 and finds they fail to address the systemic causes which are not at all unique to Texas.
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Biden’s border regime
Ashley Smith analyses Biden’s immigration proposals and executive orders, and finds small steps forwards lost to the rapid return to a reactionary status quo ante.