Tag: U.S. politics
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The United States’ home-grown fascist
Tempest member Hank Kennedy surveys the life and career of Catholic priest Charles Coughlin who was commonly known as Father Coughlin, a prominent and influential Nazi sympathizer who promoted antisemitic and pro-fascist views.
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Kanye, Kyrie, and the continuum of antisemitic violence
Jonah ben Avraham addresses the antisemitic social media outbursts by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving and places them in the context and continuum of the wider growth of antisemitism, cultivated within ruling class and right-wing media and politics.
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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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Lessons from IBT Local 1150
Jay Poppa reviews the history of Rocco Calo—a newly promoted member of the Sean O’Brien leadership team—while running Teamster Local 1150, and looks for lessons for the future.
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We need better than the Inflation Reduction Act
Thomas Hummel provides analysis of the environmental and economic impact of the Inflation Reduction Act which was signed into law last week.
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Taiwan and the logic(s) of imperialism
Charlie Hore looks at the background to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan—which has further raised tensions between the United States and China—and asks what the U.S. expected to get out of it.
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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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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.
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Democratic decline in the U.S., democratic deficit in Puerto Rico
As the attacks on basic democratic rights picks up steam in the U.S., these reactionary politics have impacted Puerto Rico, where the right-wing seeks to deploy similar strategies and tactics. As a result, argues Paul Figueroa, the appeal of national independence has again started to grow across the Left in Puerto Rico.