Roundtable

Posted July 11, 2023 Article

Resisting the shock doctrine

Ukraine, debt, and reconstruction

by Ashley Smith

Ashley Smith chairs an event with Yuliya Yurchenko, Eric Toussaint, and Sushovan Dhar on the global movement against neoliberalism, debt, and the struggle in Ukraine.

Posted May 25, 2023 Article

Organizing for union democracy

An interview with five Tempest members in the UAW’s rank-and-file caucus

by Nevena Pilipović-Wengler

Tempest member Nevena Pilipović-Wengler interviews Tempest members Ron Lare (Local 600), Judy Wraight (Local 600), Ye-Eun Jong (Local 2710), Toly Rinberg (Local 5118), and Andrew Bergman (Local 5118) about their history-making rank-and-file caucus UAWD in the UAW.

Posted March 10, 2023 Article

Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century

Transcript of Tempest event

by Luis Meiners, Rabab Elnaiem, Andreu Coll, and Natalia Tylim

Panelists on Tempest’s Building the Revolutionary Left Today panel present the questions and takeaways from their experiences in the revolutionary Left.

An aerial image of Burlington Vermont with an ink drawing of a police car following a Black Lives Matter March.

Posted March 4, 2023 Article

Fund services, not police and prisons!

Vermont activists speak out

by Tempest

A panel of Vermont activists spoke out on police, prisons, and capitalism in late January. Speakers took up the need to fund social services and defund police and prisons. The event highlighted a specific reform—community control of police—that is on the local ballot in Burlington on March 7.

Posted June 23, 2022 Article

Revenge of the Essential Worker: What’s Next for Labor in 2022?

A Tempest Panel

by Tempest

With the large turnout and organizing energy at the Labor Notes conference last weekend, the Tempest Collective hosts a public discussion to assess the conference and talk about the challenges and opportunities facing the labor movement.