Author: Phil Gasper
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Confronting the backlash
In this transcript of a session at Socialism 2023, Tempest’s Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper discuss how socialists should challenge the backlash against the anti-racist uprising of the 2020s and argue that it takes a combined anti-racism and anti-capitalism to mount the necessary resistance.
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Resisting the backlash
Speakers on the Tempest Panel “Resisting the Backlash, Defending Black Studies” look to educator organizing and labor movements in higher education as inspiring sites of struggle to defend Black studies against the right-wing backlash.
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In Memoriam: John Molyneux
Tempest member Phil Gasper discusses the work and politics of the prominent and dedicated British Marxist John Molyneux.
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Twenty years since 9/11
On the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Phil Gasper explains the historical relationship between U.S. imperialism and the jihadist groups in the Middle East.
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Assessing the 2020 election
Aaron Amaral and Phil Gasper offer analysis and perspectives coming out of the 2020 U.S. elections.
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The radical legacy of Howard Zinn
Phil Gasper interviewed Anthony Arnove about Donald Trump’s recent attack on the radical historian Howard Zinn.