A “messiah” won’t save us
A response to Judas and the Black Messiah
by Brian Young Jr.Brian Young Jr. reflects on the themes of solidarity, socialism, and revolutionary struggle in the film Judas and the Black Messiah.
Reflections on revolutionary socialist organization today
Interview with David McNally
by TempestThe Tempest Collective Editorial Board continues its engagement with David McNally on the challenges of building revolutionary organization in the current conjuncture. The interview seeks to expand ongoing discussions and debates on the question of the so-called micro-sect or micro-party model of building revolutionary organization.
The rise of Ilhan Omar
Lessons from a self-portrait
by Shamus CookeShamus Cooke assesses the record of Representative Ilhan Omar and what her autobiography reveals about her political trajectory.
Defeating the legacy of Pinochet
From the Chilean October to Boric and beyond
by Joaquín Araneda and Luis MeinersJoaquín Araneda and Luis Meiners situate the recent electoral breakthrough for the Left in Chile in both the recent insurrectionary uprising of October 2019, and the longer term processes in Chile from the Pinochet dictatorship, and the period of custodial democracy from 1990 to 2021.
Against Purgatory
A reply to Jacobin
by Adam TurlAdam Turl responds to Bhaskar Sunkara’s “The Left in Purgatory” , the lead editorial in the recent print issue of Jacobin, No. 44, Winter 2022.
From union to workers’ council
J.T. Murphy’s rank and file strategy for revolution
by Avery WearAvery Wear argues that rank and file workplace organization can offer a path to revolutionary workers’ power.
Social movements are how classes struggle
by Colin Barker
Tempest reprints a piece by Colin Barker that argues social movements are essential vehicles of the class struggle.
The U.S. left at a strategic impasse
The case for reorientation on struggle and political independence
by Ashley Smith and Charlie PostCharlie Post and Ashley Smith argue for a new orientation for the U.S. Left.
Die Linke: seven theses on the way forward
After the German election debacle
by Marx21Marx 21, the revolutionary socialist network within the German Left Party, Die Linke, provides its analysis of the September elections in Germany.
Cutting history to fit a model
On Eric Blanc and the lessons of the British Labour Party
by Kim MoodyKim Moody responds to Eric Blanc’s piece on the origins of the Labour Party and “the dirty break.”