Category: Interview
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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.
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War and resistance in Putin’s Russia
Ashley Smith interviews Ilya Budraitskis on the growing political opposition to Putin’s regime following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and its recent battlefield losses.
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Solidarity with fired UPS Teamster
Thomas Hummel interviews UPS Teamster and socialist Ben Douglass about their firing and the campaign for reinstatement.
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Assata Taught Me
Donna Murch’s latest book is Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives. Naomi Murakawa spoke to her soon after its release.
