New Articles

  • international days of protest against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.

    Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

    Tempest Collective member, Ashley Smith, interviews Ivan Ovsyannikov, a Russian journalist, leftist activist, and trade union organizer on the international days of protest on January 19 through 24, 2023  called against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.

  • Nzoy, a young Black man, looks contemplative in this portrait. He wears a ball cap. The image is purple on a green background.

    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.

  • 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.

  • Cartoonish arms and hands holding sledgehammers and roses smash a police station and a military facility.

    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.

  • A cartoon image sketch of workers carrying picket signs.

    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.

  • Iraqi protesters fly the Iraqi flag.

    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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