New articles
In defense of abolition
As prominent leftists and progressives scramble to walk back their previous commitments to “woke” demands, the Tempest National Committee explains why abolition politics is fundamental to socialism.
Confronting the ecological crisis
Paul Fleckenstein reviews Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism Assault on the Earth System and argues that the book makes an important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to our compounding ecological crisis.
Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis
Earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela in quick succession on June 24. Gonzalo Gómez speaks to Tempest about the official and popular responses to the quakes.
How do we stop the bloodshed?
In the wake of the ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine over the summer, the Tempest National Committee makes the case for the Left to build and support independent immigrant defense networks.
Trump’s legal conspiracy (part two)
In part two of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the resistance he met in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis.
Trump’s legal conspiracy (part one)
In part one of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the devastating results of the Prairieland case.
Recent articles
Try me for treason
Try Me for Treason; Anti-war Protesters’ Speeches in the Russian Courts is a film featuring excerpts from four speeches by Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov.
Childhood and Marxism
Kirstin Roberts shows how capitalism renders children as incomplete victims or threats in the context of the capitalist nuclear family–not as beings with personhood and rights. These images are rooted in the capitalist economy and ideologies of the family that buttress it.
The smoke is at our door
Julia Corrado reflects on the impacts of climate change and the Canadian wildfires, arguing that environmental disaster requires more than the market-based solutions on offer.
Building an anti-fascist city
Aaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.
The promise of workers’ power
Debates among the International Socialists in 1976–77 offer lessons for socialists today—article by Bill Roberts.
Can shattering capitalist economic theory lead to revolution?
Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.
Party Time? Setting the record straight
Giselle Gerolami responds to Charlie Post on the strengths and weaknesses of left organization, including Solidarity, of which she is a member.
Put workers and patients first!
Workers at the University of Vermont Medical Center fight for a fair contract as the possibility of a strike looms.
Trump’s ethnonationalist immigration agenda
Avery Wear argues that Trump’s second-term immigration agenda marks a historical shift from labor management to ethnonationalism, demanding a new left strategy.
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