Category: Article
-
A response to Jonah ben Avraham’s “Support Palestinians when they fight…”
Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom respond critically to a recent article by Jonah Ben Avraham.
-
Political economy of passing
In recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance and Transgender Awareness Week, Eric Maroney meditates on what it means to be Black and transgender in white-supremacist, capitalist society. In spite of carceral logics and practices alongside intimately felt gender discipline, Maroney finds reason for hope in queer and abolitionist kinship.
-
Academics protest Gaza genocide, face a clampdown on academic freedom
Tempest member Dana Cloud reports on the breakout of Palestine solidarity in an unexpected space–the annual convention of the National Communication Association.
-
Challenging Raytheon’s complicity with Israeli Genocide
Tempest members and other activists report on two actions in solidarity with Palestine and targeting Raytheon for supplying military equipment–including the “Iron Dome” system–to Israel.
-
Pat Robertson: Supervillain
Tempest member Hank Kennedy looks back at the X-Men comic God Loves, Man Kills, which inspired a surprising fight with the famed televangelist Pat Robertson who passed away earlier this year.
-
DSA after the 2023 convention
The window for revolutionaries in the DSA is still open, if “open” means the opportunity to work with other socialists in the unions and movements, to win a layer of activists to revolutionary politics, and to advance the projects of left and revolutionary regroupment, argue Tempest members Giselle Gerolami, Ron Lare, and Peter Solenberger.
-
CUNY for Palestine
Two statements by people affiliated with the City University of New York and related colleges in support of the Palestinian people.
-
A week of solidarity with Palestine
Tempest members David Whitehouse and Paul Fleckenstein attended significant demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians seeking an end to Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.
-
Labor for Palestine
The organization Labor for Palestine put out a call on October 24 for unionists in the United States to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza. Here is their call and a model resolution to use in your union.
-
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions Statement
This statement by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions appeared originally on October 16. We republish it here with the response from U.S. trade unionists in solidarity with Palestine.