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For a strategy of independence and mass struggle
Ashley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani’s fight is our fight
Todd Chretien argues that socialists need to find “a useful role inside the Mamdani experiment” instead of issuing warnings from outside.
Socialism from below
This introduction to socialism from below by Charlie Post was part of Tempest’s 2025 political education series.
Trump’s Looming “Forever War”
A statement in defense of the people and autonomy of Venezuela against Trump’s imperialism by the United Left Platform.
Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine
Tempest re-publishes the statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. in opposition to the joint Trump/ Putin plan for Ukrainian surrender to Russian imperialism.
After Mamdani, we still have to fight Trump’s America
The Tempest National Committee argues that, despite the excitement of the Mamdani moment, the Democrats have no answer to Trump’s attacks on the working class.
After the surreal summit
Ashley Smith analyzes the surreal, chummy meeting between the authoritarian Trump and NYC Mayor Elect and self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and argues that building mass class and social struggle is the only way forward.
Resisting transphobia
As part of the past week of events that took place throughout the country during Trans Awareness Week and the observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, the Vermont Tempest chapter hosted an event, “Resisting Transphobia,” that took place in the backdrop of the local tragic death earlier this month of Middlebury College…
Ukrainian nurses call for continued solidarity in the face of unrelenting attacks
Ukraine’s healthcare system is pushed to its limits, Kris Parker explains. Hundreds of thousands of combined military and civilian casualties, frequent Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure, and systemic underfunding of hospitals have posed significant challenges to those working in healthcare. The U.S.-based Ukrainian NGO Kryla, with support from the Ukraine Solidarity Network, has launched a…
Was the Chinese revolution socialist?
The Chinese revolution aimed for national sovereignty and economic development, but not for socialism. Tempest publishes a chapter from Charlie Hore’s new edition of The Road to Tiananmen Square.
We need socialism to save democracy
A radicalizing working-class majority is ripe for the long-held argument of the tradition of socialism from below: only revolutionary workers’ power, socialism, can win lasting democracy.
The conservative (d)evolution of Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Tim Goulet examines the history and recent right-ward direction of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).
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