Author: Ashley Smith
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Ukrainians in solidarity with Palestine
Ashley Smith interviews Andriy Movchan about their participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla and its significance for building solidarity between Ukrainians and Palestinians and their liberation struggles.
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War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia
Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.
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Faultlines in a new epoch of crisis
We have entered a new epoch of crisis, imperial rivalry, authoritarian nationalism, and episodic, explosive resistance from below. Trump’s brief year of misrule has brought all these to a head. Ashley Smith explains.
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Venezuela después del golpe
Ashley Smith conversa con Federico Fuentes sobre la Doctrina Donroe, la crisis del chavismo y la resistencia antiimperialista.
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Iran on the brink?
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Houshang Sepehr about the recent wave of mass protest in Iran and the Iranian regime’s brutal response.
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Venezuela after the coup
Ashley Smith talks to Federico Fuentes about the Donroe Doctrine, the crisis of Chavismo, and anti-imperialist resistance.
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For a strategy of independence and mass struggle
Ashley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.
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After the surreal summit
Ashley Smith analyzes the surreal, chummy meeting between the authoritarian Trump and NYC Mayor Elect and self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and argues that building mass class and social struggle is the only way forward.
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Against the New McCarthyism
Ashley Smith argues that the Left must reject both the civility trap that liberals and Democrats have fallen into, which simply legitimizes Kirk’s bigotry as debate, and the dead-end of individualist violence. The task for socialists is to advocate and build the capacity to carry out collective organizing, protests, and strikes to advance democratic demands.
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Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.