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Cancel culture or “call out culture” has been variously described as a way of holding institutions and people accountable, as the cultural boycott of offensive works and their authors, and as the ostracism of contemporary hated figures. As a form of public denunciation, as I prefer to see it, (...)
The Democratic Socialists of America organized a panel discussion on Ukraine on August 28, but it made no reference to the central issue of Ukraine’s right to self-determination. A few of the of the speakers condemned the Russian invasion rather perfunctorily, and a couple described the (...)
How a Ruinous Imperial War Has Strengthened His Rule at Home
Is Russia at war? To anyone visiting Moscow or even the provinces this summer, it can sometimes be hard to find much evidence. People are going about their usual lives, and the economy continues to function. There are no shortages of (...)
In an editorial for the Tempest Collective, Natalia Tylim offers a perspective for the Left following the loss of abortion rights in the Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The right has made their move, with six of nine Supreme Court Justices, including three (...)
In the interview with Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian reproduced in Green Left Issue 1350, Noam Chomsky has no proposal for ending the Russian invasion, except one word — diplomacy.
He said: “It is one possibility. The other is just to drag it out and see how much everybody will suffer, how (...)
“‘Russian artillery is shooting from morning until evening,’ said Volodymyr Pohorilyy, 43, intelligence commander of the Dnipro-1 battalion, which holds several key positions in the region. ‘If our side shoots one their way, we get 10 or 15 back.’
“‘In some respects, this is one war but two distinct (...)
Ashley Smith reviews the ongoing Left debates about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the continuing need to defend Ukrainian resistance as the starting point for rebuilding international solidarity from below.
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with the expectation of a quick (...)
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 (...)
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