Tag: Donald Trump
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Women’s liberation and the fight against the Trump regime
Linda Loew replies to the Tempest editorial from January 2025 highlighting the misogynistic attacks on women and bodily autonomy and the centrality of these struggles to an anti-capitalist resistance to the Trump regime.
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Trump seizes power in D.C.
Unlike eight years ago, there is little protest against Trump, who seems all-powerful. But his administration will be prevented from establishing stable rule by its deep internal divisions, policies that will exacerbate not solve the country’s problems, and its tendency to overreach and impose deeply unpopular policies. All of this will inevitably trigger resistance.
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Defending trans students in NYC schools
Educator Danielle Bullock reports on the struggle to defend transgender students, arguing that solidarity among teachers, transgender students, activists, and community members will be crucial for NYC to remain a progressive oasis in Trump’s America.
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Trump and his oligarchs (back) at the gate
On the brink of the second Trump presidency, Tempest offers this editorial statement on the current moment and the tasks ahead.
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Part Two: Resisting authoritarian populism
Ashley Smith analyzes the Democrats’ failure to defeat Trump and what it means for the Left.
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Part One: Resisting authoritarian populism
Ashley Smith analyzes the Democrats’ failure to defeat Trump and what it means for the Left.
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On Gaza and the struggle to restrain Trump
The West’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza has legitimized and encouraged the far right in the West itself, argues British socialist David Renton.
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Not showing up for Harris
With a focus on the supposed shift toward Trump in New York City, BC Hamilton argues that the real story of the election was a lack of motivation to vote for status-quo politics.
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The logic of Trump vs. the logic of Lenin
Paul LeBlanc argues that socialists must adapt Leninism to the current moment to face Trumpism’s political effectiveness.
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U.S. politics today
Ashley Smith discusses the U.S. presidential election and the limitations of lesser-evilism.