Category: Article
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Revolution means smashing the state
Any responsible approach to overcoming capitalism, argues brian bean, must grapple with the need to dismantle the capitalist state and replace it with our own democratic institutions from below.
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Giving credit to the wrong class
Did workers “pivot” toward striking for union recognition because of New Deal legislation, as Eric Blanc claims? Kim Moody looks at what really drove the labor upsurge of the early 1930s.
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The legacy of occupation and the fight for a democratic Iraq
brian bean interviews Workers Against Sectarianism on the struggle against sectarian politics in Iraq.
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Public sector power: Building rank & file organization under Mayor Eric Adams
A Tempest (NYC) public event on union struggles in the City’s public sector.
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UK workers strike back
Daniel Randall reports on the strike wave in Britain and analyzes the dynamics and lessons from the biggest labor upsurge in a generation.
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Neocolonial wastelands
Daniel Johnson reports on the current situation following a 2021 investigation by Greenpeace that revealed how European countries, led by the U.K., Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have shipped millions of tons of waste to Turkey.
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To remember is to fight!
Tempest shares the call of the Russian Socialist Movement for solidarity with Russian anti-war and anti-fascist activists.
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Class independence and the broad parties
Tempest’s Andrew Sernatinger responds to a debate with Left Voice on how revolutionary socialists should relate to broad parties.
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The Denmark Vesey rebellion (part 1)
Tempest member David Whitehouse examines how Denmark Vesey and his comrades recruited and organized in 1822 for an attempted uprising against slavery in Charleston, South Carolina.
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“Do not forsake me, comrade”
Hank Kennedy revisits the Hollywood classic High Noon.