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  • 187 schools including 55 pre-schools damaged in Israeli attacks towards Gaza - Middle East Monitor

    Scholasticide at the American Historical Association

    Originally published: Tempest on February 26, 2025 by Daniel Johnson (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Apr 02, 2025)

    Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. The Council’s cowardly actions are complicit in a pattern on institutional silence (and worse) within the U.S. academy in the face of the U.S. backed genocide by Israel. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision

  • Brexit debate - Michel Barnier, EU Brexit negotiator

    The post-election challenge in France

    Originally published: Tempest on October 11, 2024 (more by Tempest)  |

    An interview with John Mullen of La France Insoumise.

  • Image Credit: Image by bratispixl; modified by Tempest.

    “Do not forsake me, comrade”

    Originally published: Tempest on December 31, 2022 by Hank Kennedy (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Jan 12, 2023)

    The continuing relevance of High Noon.

  • June 24, 2022 demonstration at the U.S. Supreme Court the day of the Dobbs decision. Photo by Ted Eytan.

    Unleashing the fight for reproductive justice

    Originally published: Tempest on August 9, 2022 by Ashley Smith (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2022)

    In an outrageous act of judicial activism that disregarded both judicial precedent and popular opinion, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional protection of abortion as a national right.

  • A 2017 protest against U.S. aid for Israel in Washington D.C. Photo by Ted Eytan.

    The rise of Ilhan Omar: Lessons from a self-portrait

    Originally published: Tempest on March 2, 2022 by Shamus Cooke (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Mar 22, 2022)

    Shamus Cooke assesses the record of Representative Ilhan Omar and what her autobiography reveals about her political trajectory.

  • A protest against Duterte’s drug war in 2019. Photo by Ryomaandres.

    Taking on the Philippine axis of evil

    Originally published: Tempest on February 8, 2022 by Ashley Smith (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Feb 21, 2022)

    I was initially pushed to try to run for president. I really did not want to, because I felt somebody younger and more vigorous should. I am 76! – Walden Bello

  • Pro-choice protesters rallied in December as the Supreme Court began to hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that could potentially overturn Roe v Wade. Credit: Miki Jourdan, Flickr.

    The best offense is more clinic defense

    Originally published: Tempest on February 3, 2022 by Anonymous (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    An abortion provider discusses the tactic of clinic defense, and why it’s necessary to defend abortion rights.

  • A Philadelphia rally from March, 2021 in solidarity with the drive to unionize Amazon in Bessmer, Alabama. Credit: Joe Piette, Flickr.

    Nothing natural about this disaster

    Originally published: Tempest on Decembe 31, 2021 by Thomas Hummel (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2022)

    Profit over people kills workers in the Midwest.

  • EC Comics logo, circa 1944.

    When comic books threatened the U.S.A. (and the world)

    Originally published: Tempest on December 27, 2021 by Hank Kennedy (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2022)

    Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today.

  • Chicago Teachers on strike for fully-funded schools and racial justice

    How not to unite a class: a response to DSA’s Class Unity caucus

    Originally published: Tempest on July 16, 2021 by Felipe Bascuñán (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Jul 21, 2021)

    Felipe Bascuñán responds to a debate on the Left about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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