A revolutionary socialist organizing project
A review of Kohei Saito’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
by Paul FleckensteinTempest’s Paul Fleckenstein reviews Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto and argues that an ecosocialist future depends on mass social and class struggle.
In a new book, Russia scholar Lars Lih sees a basic continuity in Bolshevism from 1903 to Stalin. John Marot argues that party history was marked instead by major turns—first toward socialist revolution and later a break away from it.
Review of If We Burn
by David CamfieldDavid Camfield reviews a new book by journalist Vincent Bevins surveying “mass protest explosions” around the world between 2010 and 2020.
Review of A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story
by Brian WardTempest’s Brian Ward reviews A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story by Leo Zeilig.
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.
A review of 20 Days in Mariupol
by Sam FriedmanSam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.
A film review
by Samuel FarberSamuel Farber reviews the film Emily the Criminal and its portrayal of a sympathetic working-class person forced into a life of crime.
A Review of This is Only the Beginning
by Aaron AmaralAaron Amaral reviews Michael Chessum’s book This is Only the Beginning.
Tens of thousands of activists were inspired to join socialist Bernie Sanders’ campaigns for president in 2016 and 2020. Shamus Cooke reviews Bernie’s latest book and argues that the Sanders project of shifting the Democratic Party leftward has squandered the movement in a time of crisis and need.
A review of A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney
by Anyanwu LTempest’s Anyanwu L. reviews A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney by Chinedu Chukwudinma.