Author: Ashley Smith
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Unleashing the fight for reproductive justice
Ashley Smith urges those in the fight for abortion justice to build mass opposition to the abortion ban instead of looking to the Democratic party, elections, or liberal feminist organizations.
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An unstable triumph: the Philippines after the election
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Walden Bello in this follow-up interview after the national elections in the Philippines on May 9, which saw the consolidation of power under the right-wing populist and authoritarian Marcos/Duterte ticket.
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Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance!
Ashley Smith reviews the ongoing Left debates about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the continuing need to defend Ukrainian resistance as the starting point for rebuilding international solidarity from below.
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Stop Putin’s war!
Ashley Smith argues for the historic importance of the Russian attacks on Ukraine, the need to unconditionally oppose the invasion, and the political basis on which a viable challenge to the imperialists threats to world must be based.
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Taking on the Philippine axis of evil
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews activist and author Waldon Bello about the situation in the Philippines and his run for vice president in the May 9 election.
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The U.S. left at a strategic impasse
Charlie Post and Ashley Smith argue for a new orientation for the U.S. Left.
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Five crises of capitalism
A lightly edited version of a 15-minute talk by Ashley Smith for the Tempest convention on international perspectives.
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Made in the U.S.A.
Ashley Smith assesses the Biden Administration’s response to the recent wave of Haitian refugees and finds 200 years of racist history playing out in a south Texas border crossing.
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No Ben & Jerry’s for Israeli Apartheid
Ashley Smith interviews Wafic Faour and Hannah Rose about a recent BDS victory.
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Authoritarianism & resistance in India (pt. 3)
The final part of an interview with Nagesh Rao about Narendra Modi’s horrific mishandling of the pandemic in India and the state of the political alternatives to Modi’s BJP government.