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Ukrainian American protest against Russian invasion of Ukraine, New York City, February 2022. No DSA presence.
The Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States, with about 75,000 members (down from 94,000) in more than 200 chapters, has been unable (...)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been met with strange responses on the part of segments of the USA Left and among many progressives. While, generally speaking, there has been a strong condemnation of the Russian invasion, there has simultaneously been a tendency to excuse the Russian (...)
This essay was originally published in French in the pamphlet Soutien à Ukraine Resistante, №6 of a series of pamphlets in support of Ukraine from Editions Syllepse, Paris, May 9, 2022, edited by Brigades Éditoriales de Solidarité.
We support the Ukrainian people and Ukraine because it is an (...)
Whose side are we on? That is the question that anyone professing a commitment to anti-imperialism should be asking, when a sovereign nation is invaded by a Great Power.
Blinded by American Exceptionalism, however, many of the U.S. Left are not able to answer the question, and their silence (...)
Tempest contributors Justin Feldman and Sam Friedman discuss the shortcomings of the Left in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and try to trace a path forward.
The Left in the United States and many other countries have had little presence in pandemic politics. As Adam Turl said, “The organized (...)
Russia’s imperialist war on Ukraine presents a challenge to the entire Left, including DSA. With an attack on an independent nation, massive destruction in Ukraine, thousands of soldiers and civilians dead, millions of refugees, and the threat of nuclear weapons raised in a way not seen since (...)
The Tempest Collective Steering Committee lays the recent actions of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) at the feet of the organization’s pro-Democratic Party right-wing, which seeks to split the organization and must be opposed. This leadership has shown itself to be (...)
Russia is responsible for invading Ukraine, and we have to recognize that.
A world on edge after two years of Covid-19 and unprecedented climate change events now faces the prospect of a large scale war in Europe. No one other than arms merchants can possibly want this war. Brave Russian (...)
Jim Ramey reports on an anti-war rally in Montpelier, VT that featured a speech from Tempest Collective member Paul Fleckenstein.
On March 13, 2022, an ad hoc coalition of Ukrainian Americans, elected officials, and anti-war organizations held a small statewide rally of around 125 people in (...)
Ashley Smith argues for the historic importance of the Russian attacks on Ukraine, the need to unconditionally oppose the invasion, and the political basis on which a viable challenge to the imperialists threats to world must be based.
Vladimir Putin’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine is the most (...)
On February 26, the Democratic Socialists of America issued a statement condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that also urged the U.S. to exit NATO and “end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict.” The suggestion that the U.S. was somehow to blame for Vladimir Putin’s (...)
WHILE THE PRESENT unfolding catastrophe is proceeding at breakneck speed, the Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s criminal invasion has already defeated Vladimir Putin’s expectations of a quick victory.
The power of Ukrainian resistance has surprised the world, especially the governments of (...)
An interview with Matt Duss, Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy adviser, on Russia’s invasion.
Progressive Democrats in Congress reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week with calls for targeted sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle, a more generous US (...)
The Democratic Socialists of America’s International Committee has issued a statement on Ukraine that fails to adhere to basic socialist principles. As socialists, we have a responsibility to speak out and to act against our own government’s imperialist role in the world, but we also have a (...)
A Tempest editorial argues that building a movement that can challenge the main enemy at home, to defeat imperialism globally, must be based on solidarity from below, and unwavering opposition to all ruling class adventurism and imperial war-mongering internationally. Ukraine as a test for the (...)
Mike Parker spent his entire adult life engaged in movements and organizations that he believed would advance the struggle for the creation of a democratic socialist society. In the 1960s he was first a leader of the Student Peace Union, then in California of the Free Speech Movement and the (...)
Within and outside DSA, many on the Left have aligned themselves with the Communist Party of China (CPC). Guest author Travis S. submitted this piece to Tempest in the interest of furthering debate on the question of how the left should relate to the CPC. He explores the contradictions and (...)
Emma Wilde Botta and Natalia Tylim make the case for why the October 2 Women’s March was a missed opportunity for the Left, and how we can build a socialist defense of abortion rights.
Last week, the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Socialist Feminist Working Group Steering Committee (...)
Review of The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography, by Hilary Holladay, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2020, 480 pages, $32.50 hardback.
ADRIENNE RICH WAS many things to many people. She was one of the United States’ leading poets, the recipient of countless honors, beginning while she was still in (...)
Haunted by Slavery A Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Haymarket Books, 2021, 234 pages, $21.95 paper
GWENDOLYN MIDLO HALL, now 92, has for 50 years been a noteworthy scholar of Western Hemisphere slavery, ever since the 1971 publication of her (...)
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