Category: Roundtable
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Confronting the backlash
In this transcript of a session at Socialism 2023, Tempest’s Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper discuss how socialists should challenge the backlash against the anti-racist uprising of the 2020s and argue that it takes a combined anti-racism and anti-capitalism to mount the necessary resistance.
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Black Lives Matter and Palestine
A transcript of Black Lives Matter and Palestine Solidarity Teach-In held in Seattle, Washington, February 1, 2024.
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From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime
On November 2, 2023, Haymarket Books and the Ukraine Solidarity Network hosted a forum on the connection between the occupations and wars in Ukraine and Palestine facilitated by Ashley Smith and featuring Dana El-Kurd, Daria Saburova, Ramah Kudaimi and Joseph Daher.
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Lenin: Catastrophe and revolution
Paul Le Blanc in conversation with Promise Li and Cliff Connolly about the legacy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks explored through Leblanc’s recent book Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution.
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One year after Dobbs
A panel of activists discusses strategies to mount a defense and counteroffensive to win full reproductive justice including free abortion one year following the Dobbs decision.
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Resisting the shock doctrine
Ashley Smith chairs an event with Yuliya Yurchenko, Eric Toussaint, and Sushovan Dhar on the global movement against neoliberalism, debt, and the struggle in Ukraine.
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Organizing for union democracy
Tempest member Nevena Pilipović-Wengler interviews Tempest members Ron Lare (Local 600), Judy Wraight (Local 600), Ye-Eun Jong (Local 2710), Toly Rinberg (Local 5118), and Andrew Bergman (Local 5118) about their history-making rank-and-file caucus UAWD in the UAW.
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Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century
Panelists on Tempest’s Building the Revolutionary Left Today panel present the questions and takeaways from their experiences in the revolutionary Left.
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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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Revenge of the Essential Worker: What’s Next for Labor in 2022?
With the large turnout and organizing energy at the Labor Notes conference last weekend, the Tempest Collective hosts a public discussion to assess the conference and talk about the challenges and opportunities facing the labor movement.