Category: Roundtable

  • What’s next for the Syrian revolution?

    What’s next for the Syrian revolution?

    A Tempest sponsored panel: “What’s next for the Syrian revolution? Challenges and organizing since Assad’s fall”

  • Palestine and the Arab Revolution

    Palestine and the Arab Revolution

    A panel discussion featuring revolutionaries from around the region talking about the inextricable ties between Palestinian liberation and liberation across the region, and its special relevance in this crucial historic moment.

  • Confronting the backlash

    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.

  • Black Lives Matter and Palestine

    Black Lives Matter and Palestine

    A transcript of Black Lives Matter and Palestine Solidarity Teach-In held in Seattle, Washington, February 1, 2024.

  • From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime

    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.

  • Lenin: Catastrophe and revolution

    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.

  • One year after Dobbs

    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.

  • Resisting the shock doctrine

    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.

  • Organizing for union democracy

    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.

  • Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century

    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.