Category: Interview
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Victory for the Dartmouth student workers
Tempest member Nancy Welch interviews Grace Hillery, a sophomore and member of the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth, on their recent union contract victory for student workers.
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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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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.
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Graduate workers strike at Temple!
Tempest’s Joel Sronce interviews two striking graduate workers from Temple University.
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Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia
Tempest Collective member, Ashley Smith, interviews Ivan Ovsyannikov, a Russian journalist, leftist activist, and trade union organizer on the international days of protest on January 19 through 24, 2023 called against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.
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Racism has no borders
On August 30, 2021, Roger Wilhelm, a 37-year-old Black man–known to friends and family as “Nzoy”–was killed by police in Morges, Switzerland. Tempest members William Gifis and Haley Pessin talked to Evelyn Wilhelm, who is Nzoy’s sister and runs the Justice 4 Nzoy Switzerland campaign to win justice for her brother.
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The legacy of occupation and the fight for a democratic Iraq
brian bean interviews Workers Against Sectarianism on the struggle against sectarian politics in Iraq.
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Confronting authoritarian neoliberalism: the challenges facing the Left
Warren Montag, in this interview with Dimitris Givisis, offers global perspectives for the current capitalist conjuncture.
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The Foxconn uprising in Zhengzhou
Chinese feminist researcher Yige Dong provides context to the labor uprising at the Apple iPhone Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou and its relationship to the broader uprising in China.
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“We were marked for extinction, but we are still here.”
Avery Wear and Brian Ward interview Maria Whitehorse on organizing in San Diego to support Indigenous people and combat settler colonialism.