Tag: Anti-racism
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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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Anti-racist rebellion and the Left
Ben Rosenfield reviews the book The George Floyd Uprising edited by Vortex Group.
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Ocean Hill-Brownsville and the Freedom Schools of 1968
The following piece is an account of the 1968 Ocean Hill-Brownsville Strike by former teacher and rank-and-file activist in the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) Marc Pessin.
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Resisting the backlash
Speakers on the Tempest Panel “Resisting the Backlash, Defending Black Studies” look to educator organizing and labor movements in higher education as inspiring sites of struggle to defend Black studies against the right-wing backlash.
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Resisting the backlash
A Tempest Collective event on Sunday, March 26 at 2 pm EDT.
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Justice for Tyre Nichols! Solidarity against police murder!
The Tempest editorial board and the Tempest Collective stand in solidarity with the family and communities of Tyre Nichols, who was murdered by police on January 7, 2023.
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Staughton Lynd (1929–2022)
Eric Kerl offers his personal reminiscence of Staughton Lynd, who died on November 17 at the age of 92. The article first ran in the Haymarket Books blog.
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Reflections on the 2020 uprising
Mara Chinelli looks back on the 2020 rebellion that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota and its reverberations across the country, including in New York City.
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Remembering Alan Grant
Hank Kennedy remembers the life of comic book writer Alan Grant and the Left politics found in some of his most well-known works including Detective Comics, Batman, and Shadow of the Bat.
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Why I joined Tempest
In the first of an ongoing series of personal contributions, Donna Murch shares her reasons for becoming a member of the Tempest Collective.