Category: Article
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Building solidarity in auto: across the shop floor, across the borders
An interview with UAW Local 160 member and skilled mold-maker, Jessie Kelly, about Trump, tariff policy, U.S. nationalism and the struggle to build an internationalist and solidaristic class politics on the shop floor and within the Union.
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NYC teachers may toss out union leaders
The country’s biggest teachers’ union may vote for a major change, but a three-way election is making the results hard to predict. Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien explain what’s at stake.
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Bay Area teachers rally to defend public education and protest ICE
A report on the May 17 California-wide day of action in defense of public education, a demonstration which amplified calls of solidarity and targeted the Trump administration, its racism, and its attacks on the working class and our communities.
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Michael Gloss’s real and imaginary wars
Anatoly Dobrynin examines the conditions that enabled leftist student Michael Gloss to fight on the side of Putin’s Russia against Ukraine and die in the service of Russian imperialism.
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Only the beginning of the struggle
Tempest comrades from a number of cities report on their involvement in recent May Day actions.
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The Professoriate v. Trump
The actions signal the beginnings of a convergence between academic labor organizing, Palestine solidarity work, and immigrant defense networks. They demonstrate a necessary and healthy development in the response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on immigrants, trans people, education, working people, and civil liberties, but they are only a first step.
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A solidarity message from Canada on the UAW and auto tariffs
A powerful statement to the labor movement and auto workers from Bruce Allen, a former president of Unifor Local 199, opposing Trump’s tariff policies. This was read at one of the twin rallies held on April 26, 2025 in Detroit and across the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario.
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The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Sopho Verdzueli, who are all members of a new Left organization in the country of Georgia. In the midst of high levels of struggle, including one of largest and most sustained mass protests in their country’s history, socialists in Georgia have come together to form…


