Category: Article

  • One year after Dobbs

    One year after Dobbs

    A Tempest Collective event on Sunday, May 28 at 2 pm EDT

  • On The Brink?: The Teamsters and UPS

    On The Brink?: The Teamsters and UPS

    Joe Allen discusses whether UPS Teamsters will strike this summer.

  • The Left under Brandon Johnson

    The Left under Brandon Johnson

    brian bean argues the need for independent organizing and struggle under Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago

  • We demand justice for Jordan Neely

    We demand justice for Jordan Neely

    In an editorial on behalf of the Tempest Collective, Haley Pessin looks at the conditions that led to the murder of Jordan Neely, an unhoused Black man who was choked to death on May 1 while riding the New York City subway.

  • re: notice of rent increase

    re: notice of rent increase

    In this poem, Michelle Everette explores how it hurts to be poor.

  • Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy

    Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy

    Naomi Bennet responds to Charlie Post on how to understand the relationship between the electoral far right and fascist forces and what this means for threats to bourgeois democracy and the strategies for the Left.

  • “The Generals’ fight for power is not our fight”

    “The Generals’ fight for power is not our fight”

    Shireen Akram-Boshar and brian bean interview Muzna Alhaj, a member and organizer of a Khartoum Resistance Committee, about the escalating armed conflict between rival factions of the ruling junta and its impact on the revolutionary dynamic in Sudan.

  • Build healthy communities, not prisons

    Build healthy communities, not prisons

    A transcript of a speech last month by Jayna Ahsaf, an organizer with the Vermont chapter of the FreeHer campaign from the abolitionists group the National Council speaking to activists on the need for a long-term campaign to abolish prisons and fund people and healthy communities.

  • This is what solidarity looks like!

    This is what solidarity looks like!

    Alex Schmaus interviews UTLA member Thalía Cataño and SEIU Local 99 member Rosalba Romero— both of whom work at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles—about the successful strike in March.

  • May Days

    May Days

    May 1 is International Workers’ Day. In this short essay, Joe Allen recounts the experience of the walking tour at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, where there is a monument to the May 1, 1886 uprising and the bloody confrontation on May 3 between police and workers–and ultimately, the execution of four militants involved in the uprising.