War is hell
A review of 20 Days in Mariupol
by Sam FriedmanSam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.
Why don’t they just negotiate?
A poem
by Sam FriedmanIn this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman observes the limits of pacifism while children die and catastrophe looms.
Fatal abstractions
Disease, death, and capitalist abstraction
by Sam FriedmanThere are effective vaccines for COVID-19 and effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but both remain global epidemics. Medical researcher Sam Friedman explains how the profit system is limiting the reach of life-saving medicines.
Anti-lamentation
A poem by Sam Friedman
by Sam FriedmanIn this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.
Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?
by Sam Friedman
A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.