Review

Posted July 16, 2022 Article

“Written on Mars”

Is it time to lay Philip Foner to rest?

by Joe Allen

The final volume of Philip Foner’s groundbreaking history of the U.S. labor movement is now available. It covers the years 1929–1932. Despite its promise to frame the origins of the labor militancy of the Great Depression, Joe Allen argues that it presents a distorted picture.

Posted May 30, 2022 Article

The decolonized ear

A review of Noise Uprising: the Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution

by Neil Rogall

Neil Rogall’s review was solicited by Tempest after seeing an abridged version posted on social media. While the book has been in print since 2015, the editors appreciated the politics … Continue Reading The decolonized ear

Posted May 11, 2022 Article

The left wing of the possible?

Review of A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism

by Bill Keach

Bill Keach reviews A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism by Doug Greene.

Posted April 28, 2022 Article

Remembering an icon of the resistance to settler colonialism

A review of David Correia’s An Enemy Such as This

by Brian Ward

Brian Ward reviews David Correia’s new book on Larry Casuse and the struggle for Native liberation.

Posted April 11, 2022 Review

Dissidents Among Dissidents

Kit Wainer reviews Ilya Budraitskis’ recent book.

by Kit Wainer

Kit Wainer reviews Ilya Budraitskis recent book, Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia.

Posted March 21, 2022 Review

Class against class

The case for class struggle unionism

by Tim Goulet

Tim Goulet reviews Joe Burns’ new book Class Struggle Unionism and how it relates to the current state of the labor movement.

Posted January 8, 2022 Article

Capitalism isn’t coming to save us

Don’t Look Up : Disaster spectacle as political satire

by Ricardo Gabriel, Thomas Hummel, & Adam Turl

Tempest Collective members Ricardo Gabriel, Thomas Hummel, and Adam Turl offer three different takes on the disaster movie Don’t Look Up.