Author: Promise Li
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Revolutionary Futures
Promise Li delivers a talk at Occidental College on “reform vs. revolution” that describes how Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project.
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Report on the Amazon Teamsters’ strike in Southern California
Michael Fabregas and Promise Li, members of the Los Angeles branch of Tempest, report on Teamsters’ pickets against Amazon in Southern California.
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Lenin: Catastrophe and revolution
Paul Le Blanc in conversation with Promise Li and Cliff Connolly about the legacy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks explored through Leblanc’s recent book Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution.
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Questions remain for USC international graduate workers after contract win
Tempest’s Promise Li interviews an international graduate student worker at the University of Southern California after the graduate students’ first-ever contract was ratified.
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University of Michigan graduate workers protest for Palestine
Tempest’s Promise Li interviews Michael Mueller, an arrestee during a November 17 Palestine protest at the University of Michigan.
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No pride in genocide!
Héctor A. Rivera reports on the experiences of grassroots queer networks like the one in Los Angeles that are coming together across social movements and activist communities coming out in support of Palestine.
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“From heroes to zeroes”
Tempest’s Promise Li reports on Kaiser Permanente workers’ three-day strike, which ended October 10 with a tentative agreement but no contract.
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Princeton graduate workers are fighting like tigers for a union
Tempest member Promise Li reports on the recently announced union card campaign launched last month by PGSU at Princeton University.
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The Foxconn uprising in Zhengzhou
Chinese feminist researcher Yige Dong provides context to the labor uprising at the Apple iPhone Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou and its relationship to the broader uprising in China.
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Reimagining anti-imperialist praxis in DSA
Promise Li contends that discerning between allies and enemies is no expression of chauvinism, but a marker of socialist clarity.