Author: Keith Rosenthal
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The Mamdani campaign, left horizons, and the “defund the police” question
Keith Rosenthal discusses the New York City Mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani’s courting of the New York Police Department (NYPD), and cautions the socialist Left against abandoning racial justice demands.
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Union days, sweepin’ the clouds away
Phoebe Gilpin, Senior Director of Formal Learning at Sesame Workshop, is part of the union organizing committee and one of the workers recently laid off. Gilpin spoke with Keith Rosenthal for Tempest Magazine about the struggle, how it transpired, and what comes next.
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Complicit academia: Israel and the US
Keith Rosenthal reviews Towers of Ivory and Steel. Maya Wind’s new book details the active service that Israeli universities have always given to the project of settlement and the repression of Palestinian perspectives and resistance.
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Demonstrations for a free Palestine continue
Three Tempest members report on demonstrations in New York City for Palestinian self-determination and a ceasefire.
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Israel promises war crimes
Keith Rosenthal looks at Israel’s open intent to create a catastrophe in Gaza—and the hypocrisy of U.S. rulers.
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Once again on the Democratic Party, the lesser evil, and the working-class Left
Tempest’s Keith Rosenthal argues that, in the context of looming environmental catastrophe and ongoing social crisis, we cannot place our faith in the Democratic Party to advance the interests of the working class and the oppressed.
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The political economy of disability
In this first article of two on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Keith Rosenthal explains how the category of disability and oppression based on ability are rooted in the capitalist economic system.
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The continuation of politics by other means
Keith Rosenthal reviews a new board game published by Jacobin.