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Polarization and paralysis
Now is the time for a critical assessment of the Left’s failed electoral strategy and the shift to a fundamentally different one—an orientation on the independent organization of class and social struggle.
Staughton Lynd (1929–2022)
Eric Kerl offers his personal reminiscence of Staughton Lynd, who died on November 17 at the age of 92. The article first ran in the Haymarket Books blog.
Seizing the beans of production!
Tempest members report from picket lines around the country on a one-day strike by Starbucks Workers.
“We were marked for extinction, but we are still here.”
Avery Wear and Brian Ward interview Maria Whitehorse on organizing in San Diego to support Indigenous people and combat settler colonialism.
Victory in Ohio?
Joe Allen analyzes the Ohio Teamsters’ electoral strategy in Ohio and its endorsement of the right-wing Republican, incumbent Governor, Mike DeWine.
Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?
A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.
Recent articles
When Iran is free
Amid ongoing protests following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amin in September while in Iranian police custody for several days after being arrested by the morality police, Fred, an Iranian socialist, analyzes the government’s harsh response, the different ideological factions that are within the “woman, life, freedom” movement, and where these opposition forces are situated in a future post-regime Iran.
Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, #FreeThemAll
brian bean and Shireen Akram-Boshar report on the campaign, during COP27, to save Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Voices from Ukraine & Russia
The Real News Network, in partnership with Haymarket Books, hosts a panel with Ukrainian and Russian activists and academics.
Shitstorming the opposition
Dean O’Possum writes about a far-right effort to attack a local Drag Story Time event in Eugene, Oregon and the ideological landscape in which transphobic legislation, online conspiracies, and hate speech targeting trans youth must be understood, organized against, and resisted. Excerpt: Dean O’Possum writes about a far-right protest against a Drag Story Time event in Eugene, Oregon, why these attacks are spreading, and how we can fight back.
Don’t ever forgive, don’t ever forget
Thomas Hummel reviews the film “All Quiet on the Western Front,” a new adaptation of the classic anti-war novel.
Kanye, Kyrie, and the continuum of antisemitic violence
Jonah ben Avraham addresses the antisemitic social media outbursts by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving and places them in the context and continuum of the wider growth of antisemitism, cultivated within ruling class and right-wing media and politics.
Ujima’s plan to transcend neoliberalism in Maryland
Phillip Clark writes about the Ujima People’s Progress Party, an independent third-party led by Black workers in Baltimore, Maryland,and its ongoing initiative to get on the ballot this election cycle.
Why we need a planned economy
Common wisdom, even among socialists, is that large-scale economic planning doesn’t work. Avery Wear reviews three key texts on the question and argues that planning is not only feasible but necessary.
Justice for Paris Moore!
Tempest reader Danelle provides an update on a disturbing incident of police violence in a Rockford, Illinois public high school last year.
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