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The Bund, anti-Zionism and the Jewish Left

In this review of Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, Janey Stone, co-author of The Radical Jewish Tradition offers praise for Crabapple’s authentic approach to storytelling that brings to life an underappreciated anti-Zionist history of the Jewish Labor Bund, while providing additional historical context and perspectives…

We are the Lorax and must speak for the trees

Rose reports on the environmentalist struggle against the city of Los Angeles to save San Pascual Park, demonstrating that democratic, community-based groups willing to fight for a future that benefits the people—not profits—are how we build our mobilizing muscles.

There is no normal to restore

Blanca Missé reports on the Connecticut state senate campaign of Rosa Pepper-Macias and argues for the importance and viability of independent political campaigns and their role in opening greater space for working class self-organization and political power.

Trump is sunk 

The Tempest National Committee describes Donald Trump’s declining popularity and potential ruthlessness that must be met by social movements from below.

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In defense of abolition

A discussion on abolition is being hosted by the Tempest Collective POC Caucus this Saturday, October 24 at 2 pm ET.

In the crosshairs of AI (part three)

Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part three proposes organizing interventions and strategies of resistance for the Left.

In the crosshairs of AI (part two)

Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part two explores AI’s connection to global labor, climate, and imperialism struggles.

In the crosshairs of AI (part one)

Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part one provides an analysis of the political, financial, and existential “hype” around AI.

The gang rape at Cornell

Dana Cloud puts the horrific rape at Cornell in the context of a socialist analysis of gender violence and the fight for women’s liberation.

Anti-Woke electoralism

Hakan Yilmaz argues that flip-flopping on wokeness is a byproduct of the electoralist logic embraced by right-wing DSA caucuses that make up DSA’s leadership majority, and that discounting movements that center the rights of oppressed communities moves the socialist movement away from the long-term goal of building strong and democratic working-class organizations.

We have to do something

Ohio professor and activist Pranav Jani interviews organizer Kristen Guptill-Godfrey about solidarity and socialist organizing.

The economics of U.S. imperialism (part 1)

Despite mounting corporate debt and a disastrous war on Iran, the U.S. economy is powering ahead—led by the investment boom in AI. G. Stewart explores the resilience of the economy and the contradictions that threaten to undermine it.

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