Tag: Mass movements
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The alt-right anti-trans crusades
Eric Maroney argues that the far-right attacks on transgender people stem from profound social anxiety over the crises posed by neoliberal capitalism.
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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.
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Taiwan: Caught Between Rival Superpowers
Tempest interviews Brian Hioe and Wen Liu, two prominent commentators on Taiwanese politics and editors of New Bloom Magazine, about Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit and the geopolitical battle between the U.S. and China over the island.
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Unleashing the fight for reproductive justice
Ashley Smith urges those in the fight for abortion justice to build mass opposition to the abortion ban instead of looking to the Democratic party, elections, or liberal feminist organizations.
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The rise and fall of progressivism in Latin America
Anderson Bean reviews The Impasse of the Latin American Left, a new book by Frank Gaudichaud, Massimo Modones, and Jeffery R. Webber on the experience of the Latin American Left, over the last couple of decades, in and out of power.
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In the struggle for abortion rights, capitalism is the enemy
Nancy Welch of the Tempest Collective and Upper Valley for Abortion Rights delivered these remarks on the fight to rewin abortion rights at a recent meeting of Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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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.
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Queer liberation and socialism
In the first of a series of articles for Pride Month, Dana Cloud writes about the history of queer liberation struggle in the United States, its socialist origins, and lessons for today’s queer politics.
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A new era of labor revolt (1966)
In the mid-1960s, in the midst of Black urban revolt and radicalization on campuses, the U.S. working class was supposedly bought off and inactive. Worker-revolutionary Stan Weirdisagreed. In this 1966 speech, he detailed the broad stirrings of a rank and file rebellion—a revolt with roots in unbearable workplace conditions and a deep feeling that “something’s…
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See you at Labor Notes
On behalf of the Tempest Collective, Joe Allen describes the political terrain ahead of the Labor Notes Conference and the importance of an open and serious engagement with the socialist movement.