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Building power now!
Lizartistry has created a new share-able ‘zine that speaks to the disillusionment with electoral politics and offers a vision of how to build political power from the perspective of socialism from below.
In honor of May Day
On May 1, the day honoring the international working class struggle, the Tempest National Committee calls for labor mobilization and ongoing organizing against the Trump agenda.
Madness as method
Thomas Hummel argues that Trump’s tariff policy is a desperate gamble to re-establish U.S. world dominance.
Understanding the cynical efforts to dissolve UAWD
Tempest asked Andrew Bergman, Nevena Pilipović-Wengler, Toly Rinberg, and Judy Wraight, long standing organizers within UAWD, about the recent proposal, originating with a section of the UAWD leadership, to liquidate the important rank and file caucus. A key vote will take place on Sunday. They provide some basic background and explain the principled importance for…
Listening to Victor’s Children
Tempest interviews David Camfield about his podcast Victor’s Children and its role in promoting the politics of socialism from below.
Within and without?
BC Hamilton explains that Zohran Mamdani’s bid for mayor represents the ongoing battle and committed political tactics of the DSA’s inside-out approach. This is the playbook that Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Mamdani have stuck with: democratic socialists who run as Democrats and, when they win, continue to operate within the Democratic Party, forming a left wing…