Category: Article
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Hal Draper’s America as Overlord
Samuel Farber provides the foreword in the Haymarket-published book America as Overlord, a collection of essays written by Hal Draper in the 1950s and 1960s on the role of U.S. imperialism from World War II to the Vietnam War.
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Fund services, not police and prisons!
A panel of Vermont activists spoke out on police, prisons, and capitalism in late January. Speakers took up the need to fund social services and defund police and prisons. The event highlighted a specific reform—community control of police—that is on the local ballot in Burlington on March 7.
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Revolutionary graduate worker unionism
Graduate worker Steven Lazaroff considers what it means to be a revolutionary in graduate student unions on the basis of his experience at Illinois State University, where the ISU Graduate Workers Union won a significant victory.
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Ukraine, Palestine, and internationalism
Ashley Smith of the Tempest Collective interviews Vladyslav Starodubstev on the one-year anniversary of the war about the struggle for internationalist solidarity in Ukraine and Palestine.
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Fascism in Italy today
Last September a fascist party descended from Mussolini’s movement won election in Italy—a milestone in the advance of the far right internationally. Thomas Hummel examines the Italian situation and argues that united struggle can turn the tide.
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Gone is the law of the universe, scattered by frivolous fate
Recent Israeli attacks in the West Bank follow a year of military escalation. Richard Seymour finds the roots of this surge in Palestinian resistance and Israeli class politics.
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From below and to the left
These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.
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We Say: War on War!
A statement by the Émigré Branch of the Russian Socialist Movement on the anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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How NYC nurses won their strike
Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld shares an account by NYSNA member Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez of how nurses organized themselves and their community ahead of the victorious NYC nurses strike.
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You don’t want your nurse to be overworked
Tempest member Snehal Shingavi spoke to four nurses in Texas who participated in rallies last month to protest understaffing at a number of major hospitals.