Author: Charlie Post
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Socialism from below
This introduction to socialism from below by Charlie Post was part of Tempest’s 2025 political education series.
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The instrumentalization of antisemitism and the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States
Sherry Wolf and Charlie Post chart the bad-faith conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and argue for the importance of openly organizing as anti-Zionist Jews in relation to the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States.
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What would it take to win in Palestine?
David Camfield and Charlie Post argue that Palestinian liberation requires a regional revolutionary strategy based on the politics and methods of socialism from below.
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Why capitalism fails
In this talk, delivered in June 2023 at the Tempest NYC Marxism day school, Charlie Post discusses Marxist crisis theory.
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The far right today
Hard-right politicians and fascist street gangs pose growing threats to workers and the oppressed, argues Charlie Post, but they aren’t the same thing, and the Left needs different tactics to combat each one.
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Polarization and paralysis
Now is the time for a critical assessment of the Left’s failed electoral strategy and the shift to a fundamentally different one—an orientation on the independent organization of class and social struggle.
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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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Labor law reform and class struggle
In the context of an ongoing campaign to pass the PRO ACT, Charlie Post looks at important moments of labor law reform and their relationship to the broader class struggle.
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Backing Biden will not stop Trumpism
Charlie Post and Ashley Smith respond to Stephen R. Shalom’s criticisms of their article, “The lesser evil trap.”
