Speaking tour: Resisting Russian imperialism
Ukraine’s struggle for self-determination
by TempestFour scholars and leftists from Ukraine and Russia will participate in a speaking tour with events in Chicago, New York, and Berkeley.
Did the DSA Convention Move Left?
by Andy Sernatinger
Andy Sernatinger analyzes the developments from DSA’s 2023 National Convention.
Starving Armenians and very tasty cookies
The blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh is a form of terrorism
by Nancy KricorianThe blockade is a form of terrorism, meant to drive people from their homeland. Starvation is a weapon of genocide, but for the moment Artsakh’s residents are doing everything they can to hold on.
Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965)
Why did the FBI smear this civil rights martyr?
by Hank KennedyOn the 60th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Hank Kennedy tells the riveting story of a mostly unsung civil rights hero, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the KKK in 1965 and then smeared by the FBI and police.
UAW rally in Warren, Michigan
Report from the front
by Hank KennedyOn August 25, 97 percent of the 150,000 auto workers represented by the UAW voted to authorize a strike if an agreement is not reached before their contracts expire on September 14. Hank Kennedy reports on a rally of the United Auto Workers in Warren, Michigan last weekend before the strike authorization vote.
Did the Left wing of the Second International foreshadow the politics of the Third?
by John Marot
John Marot argues that the politics of the Third International, formed in 1919, did not just carry forward the positions of the Left wing of the Second. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed what the Left thought about workers’ power.
Starbucks: the long haul from recognition to a national contract
by Frank Emspak
Frank Emspak argues that Starbucks workers can win a union and a contract at Starbucks if the labor movement acts like a labor movement.
Why are hospitals keeping nurses away from patients in need?
An Interview with nurses in Kansas and Texas on their Ascension strike
by Snehal ShingaviTempest member Snehal Shingavi interviews striking union nurses in Kansas and Texas following their historic one-day strike in June against Ascension and the company’s retaliation to lockout the employees from returning to work for three days.
Trapped in the Democratic Party
The Left, Bidenomics, and socialist strategy
by Ashley SmithTempest’s Ashley Smith describes how Joe Biden’s economic program represents “imperialist Keynesianism” designed to rival China, ameliorate domestic social inequalities, and neutralize challenges from both the Left and the Trumpian right. The Left must build an alternative.
Are the Teamsters going red-hunting?
by Joe Allen
Joe Allen highlights the barely-concealed red-baiting in a recent defense of the UPS Tentative Agreement from a Teamster National Bargaining Committee member.