Category: Article

  • Vote no and fight for more

    Vote no and fight for more

    Five years ago, New York City forced its teachers to take cuts in health coverage. This year they’re offering a sub-inflation raise. Keegan O’Brien calls for a NO vote and explains how to build a fight to win more.

  • Disability justice movements: history and practice

    Disability justice movements: history and practice

    In this second article of two (the first is here) on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Dana Cloud and Nina Lozano explore the history of social movements by people with disabilities and suggest lessons for socialist practice today.

  • Strike Ready?

    Strike Ready?

    Tempest member Joe Allen explores the role of the Left in preparing for the potential Teamsters strike this summer.

  • The political economy of disability

    The political economy of disability

    In this first article of two on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Keith Rosenthal explains how the category of disability and oppression based on ability are rooted in the capitalist economic system.

  • Building a mass movement to stop Cop City

    Building a mass movement to stop Cop City

    Erwin Freed of Workers’ Voice writes on the ongoing struggle against the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, which has become a front-line battle against the carceral state.

  • The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.

    The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.

    Brendan Stanton interviews Justin Akers Chacón, a socialist based in San Diego. Akers Chacón campaigns for worker and immigrant rights in the U.S.-Mexico border region and is the author of The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the U.S.-Mexico Border.

  • Essential Uprising

    Essential Uprising

    In “Essential Uprising,” Demetrius Noble urges workers to organize to demand an end to alienation and the meeting of basic human needs.

  • Organizing for union democracy

    Organizing for union democracy

    Tempest member Nevena Pilipović-Wengler interviews Tempest members Ron Lare (Local 600), Judy Wraight (Local 600), Ye-Eun Jong (Local 2710), Toly Rinberg (Local 5118), and Andrew Bergman (Local 5118) about their history-making rank-and-file caucus UAWD in the UAW.

  • UPS part-time wage cuts

    UPS part-time wage cuts

    In this response to Joe Allen’s article On the Brink? The Teamsters and UPS, Dom Belcastro details part-time wage cuts.

  • Reflections on Emily the Criminal

    Reflections on Emily the Criminal

    Samuel Farber reviews the film Emily the Criminal and its portrayal of a sympathetic working-class person forced into a life of crime.