Category: Interview
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France’s student strikes
Danielle Bullock interviews public high school teacher Laurent about the protests that began last month in Paris’s northern suburbs, where students have struggled to learn in crumbling, pest-infested schools with too few teachers.
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Inside the French student revolt
In this interview with Janette Zahia Corcelius and Jane-Léonie Bellay, students report from the student revolt in France.
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In the crosshairs of AI (part three)
Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part three proposes organizing interventions and strategies of resistance for the Left.
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In the crosshairs of AI (part two)
Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part two explores AI’s connection to global labor, climate, and imperialism struggles.
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In the crosshairs of AI (part one)
Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part one provides an analysis of the political, financial, and existential “hype” around AI.
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Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis
Earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela in quick succession on June 24. Gonzalo Gómez speaks to Tempest about the official and popular responses to the quakes.
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Building an anti-fascist city
Aaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.
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Solidarity with striking ICE hostages!
Tempest interviews Izzy, a NYC activist, about their experiences in organizing in support of the strikers and their families at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center.
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Ukrainians in solidarity with Palestine
Ashley Smith interviews Andriy Movchan about their participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla and its significance for building solidarity between Ukrainians and Palestinians and their liberation struggles.
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War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia
Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.