Category: Article
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Breaking barriers to academic freedom
Tempest member Dana Cloud urges scholars to tell the truth and take sides to defend academic freedom.
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Loyalty to truth and solidarity—not to the authoritarian state
Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian recently spoke at a National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths organized by the American Association of University Professors, which notes that President Trump’s so-called Compact with universities “violates the First Amendment by forcing universities to surrender their right of free speech and academic freedom in exchange for federal funds.”
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Speak out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the fight for free speech
The Tempest Collective is a supporter of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter and encourages everyone to attend this event on Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm ET, as well as to join the fight to defend Tom Alter and the growing list of victims of Trumpite repression and the broad attacks on all of…
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The candidate, the billionaires, and the Democrats
Mel Bienenfeld explains the relationship of Zohran Mamdani to New York elites.
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Introducing the UAWD’s Daily Struggle
UAWD, a rank-and-file caucus within UAW, is holding a launch event this Sunday, October 19, at 3 pm ET for a new worker-led publication by and for UAW members that will provide a platform for workers to speak for themselves. Register for the event here.
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Rehabilitating McCarthyism
As Trump continues to escalate his campaign of domestic repression, Tempest offers a perspective from Bill Keach on the repression of another period—the McCarthy era.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The Tempest editorial board suggests a list of readings and resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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“A huge massacre awaits”
Tempest’s Shireen Akram-Boshar asked Toufic Haddad to characterize the current phase of the Gaza genocide.
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Statement by the Committee to Defend History Professor Tom Alter
A call for support for professor fired for speaking at a socialist conference.
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Killing the messengers
In the midst of Israel’s ongoing genocide, the editorial board remembers the more than 300 journalists who have been targeted and killed by the state of Israel.