A revolutionary socialist organizing project
A review of “We do this ’til we free us”
by Haley Pessin, Héctor Rivera, and P.B. RichterHaley Pessin, PB Richter, and Héctor Rivera review Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
A Tempest editorial on the ongoing vote for unionization at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.
Phillip Clark assesses the current political moment and argues that Black liberation cannot be realized through electoral politics.
Reflections on August 19, 2017
by Bill KeachA number of Boston socialists reflect on one of the most important confrontations with the far-right in the U.S. during the Trump years as a model of organizing and mass challenge to the racists and their enablers.
Camila Valle interviews puzzle constructor Natan Last about the sometime hidden, sometimes open politics of crosswords.
Tempest Collective Public Forum
by TempestThe Tempest Collective is hosting an online forum on January 24th to discuss how the Left can organize to fight the Far Right under the incoming Biden Administration.
Whitewashing the history of Classic Rock
by Geoff BaileyIn the final of a three-part series, Geoff Bailey, looks at the racial politics of rock and roll in the creation of “Classic Rock”, and how they inform a critique of the concept of cultural appropriation.
A review of “Living and Dying on the Factory Floor”
by Joe AllenJoe Allen reviews David Ranney’s autobiographical account of his life as a revolutionary socialist factory worker in the 1970s and 1980s.
History and resistance
by Bill KeachBill Keach assesses the struggle to remove, relocate, and/or destroy certain monuments and statutes as both a reckoning with histories of racism and oppression and part of the process of envisioning a better future.