Tag: Trump
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How should the Left respond to Trump’s threats against Canada?
Tempest member David Camfield lays out the proper Left response to Trump’s bullying.
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Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine
Tempest re-publishes the statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. in opposition to the joint Trump/ Putin plan for Ukrainian surrender to Russian imperialism.
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Resisting anti-trans policies in NYC and beyond
Danielle Bullock discusses examples of organized resistance to the attacks on trans youth in New York City and beyond.
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Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.
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Schools as sites of struggle
Education scholar and activist Lois Weiner discusses the strength of education workers and the specific attacks facing the education sector.
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Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.
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The buffoon, the empire, and the crisis
Thomas Hummel describes the onslaught of Trump’s first six months: a program of crisis-driven neoliberal austerity and ideological appeals to his petty bourgeois base.
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How mass protest can turn liberal dissent into struggles for liberation
Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian discusses how leftists need to approach people attending mass protests against Trump.
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Building solidarity in auto: across the shop floor, across the borders
An interview with UAW Local 160 member and skilled mold-maker, Jessie Kelly, about Trump, tariff policy, U.S. nationalism and the struggle to build an internationalist and solidaristic class politics on the shop floor and within the Union.
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A solidarity message from Canada on the UAW and auto tariffs
A powerful statement to the labor movement and auto workers from Bruce Allen, a former president of Unifor Local 199, opposing Trump’s tariff policies. This was read at one of the twin rallies held on April 26, 2025 in Detroit and across the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario.
