Tag: Racism
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How not to unite a class
Felipe B. responds to a debate on the Left about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
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Twin Cities bus drivers and anti-racist action
Paul KD interviews Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 member Adam Burch about the union and the anti-racist action it took during the uprising in Minneapolis last summer.
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‘A jailbreak of the imagination’
Haley Pessin, PB Richter, and Héctor Rivera review Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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Solidarity with the Amazon workers
A Tempest editorial on the ongoing vote for unionization at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
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No war, no KKK
Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.
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Electoral politics ≠ Black liberation
Phillip Clark assesses the current political moment and argues that Black liberation cannot be realized through electoral politics.
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How Boston beat the far right
A number of Boston socialists reflect on one of the most important confrontations with the far-right in the U.S. during the Trump years as a model of organizing and mass challenge to the racists and their enablers.
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Crossword politics
Camila Valle interviews puzzle constructor Natan Last about the sometime hidden, sometimes open politics of crosswords.
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Fight the far right in the Biden era
The Tempest Collective is hosting an online forum on January 24th to discuss how the Left can organize to fight the Far Right under the incoming Biden Administration.
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How rock became white – part 3
In the final of a three-part series, Geoff Bailey, looks at the racial politics of rock and roll in the creation of “Classic Rock”, and how they inform a critique of the concept of cultural appropriation.