By Joel SronceAll images by the author Report originally published at Tempest Magazine. On a cold, windy Thursday in Philly, … More
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What We Should Remember: How Memorials Mask the Capitalist Roots of War
by Herbert P. CainePhoto by Walter Martin on Unsplash Walking through Port Richmond, I regularly pass by two memorials for … More
‘What’s Happening in the Philippines Is Happening Here in America’: Ket Maarte of Anakbayan on the Filipino Diaspora and International Solidarity
Interview by Tarig RobinsonPhoto by Alexes Gerard on Unsplash This is a transcript of an interview with Ket Maarte, the … More
Facing Intimidation and Retaliation, Philly Starbucks Workers Go on Strike
by Joel SroncePhotos by the author. Before sunrise on July 22, 2022, a crowd gathered in downtown Philadelphia at the … More
‘We Intend to Make a Workers’ Paradise’: Mariposa Union Members Reflect on the Struggle So Far — and What’s Next
by Joel SroncePhoto by Scott Warman on Unsplash In mid-May, Joel Sronce sat down at Buna Café with three workers … More
Who’s Reading What We’re Writing?
How leftist journalists can reach readers beyond the activist bubble by Suzy SubwaysAll images by the author unless otherwise noted. … More
A History Still in the Making: 50 Years of Philadelphia Tenant Organizing
by Tommy McGloneFeatured image: Aftermath of the Columbia Avenue Riot, August 29, 1964. Joseph Wiedelman/Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Courtesy of Special … More
Gagarin [Poem]
“Love lives in rage, sings lost names / With each new season of barricades”
Artists Rally to Urge Kenney Not to Annihilate Arts. Again.
Joyful as many of them were, taken together, the rally performances exuded a kind of collective loneliness, a longing to be united in shared space, to dance together, breathing the same air without fear.