“The John Brown way” part 2
Into battle
by David WhitehouseDavid Whitehouse recounts the battles, up through the Harpers’ Ferry revolt, of anti-slavery militant John Brown, a period that influenced the emergence of the United States Left.
Sentenced to a life of poor health
Failures in U.S. prison health care
by Slim PhilomathSlim Philomath explains why attempts to reform health care in U.S. prisons have been inadequate to the task, which requires an interrogation of the entire carceral system.
“The John Brown way” (part 1)
Grassroots frameworks, interlinked movements
by David WhitehouseDavid Whitehouse tells a different story about John Brown, who led the 1859 raid against slavery in what was then Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. This article is Part One of Two.
We are fighting for Palestinian liberation
Speech to Pasadena Palestine teach-in
by Denée JacksonTempest member Denée Jackson draws connections among Jewish, Black, and Palestinian experience and liberation, arguing for solidarity across multiple marginalized identities.
Construyendo un movimiento masivo para detener Cop City
by Erwin Freed
En este artículo, publicado en Tempest en inglés, Erwin Freed de Workers’ Voice escribe sobre la lucha contra la construcción de Cop City en Atlanta, la cual ha llegado a ser la primera línea de batalla contra el estado carcelario.
Building a mass movement to stop Cop City
by Erwin Freed
Erwin Freed of Workers’ Voice writes on the ongoing struggle against the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, which has become a front-line battle against the carceral state.
Build healthy communities, not prisons
Activists rally in Vermont against expansion of the carceral state
by Jayna AhsafA transcript of a speech last month by Jayna Ahsaf, an organizer with the Vermont chapter of the FreeHer campaign from the abolitionists group the National Council speaking to activists on the need for a long-term campaign to abolish prisons and fund people and healthy communities.
Fund services, not police and prisons!
Vermont activists speak out
by TempestA 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.
From below and to the left
Two poems by former Texas death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster
by Kenneth Foster, Jr.These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.
Revolution means smashing the state
by brian bean
Any responsible approach to overcoming capitalism, argues brian bean, must grapple with the need to dismantle the capitalist state and replace it with our own democratic institutions from below.