About

The Tempest Collective is an organizing and educational project.  Our goal is to put forward a revolutionary vision that is clear and understandable, that weighs in on strategic and tactical questions, and that offers concrete guidance about how to put  a consistent set of working-class politics “from below” into practice today. 

We share a commitment to revolutionary socialism from below, united by a vision of replacing capitalism with a society rooted in the interests of the majority. See “Our politics.” We have broad agreement on political perspectives, but don’t represent a line or a single point of view.

We are building local chapters across the country. We organize public forums and events events to educate, discuss, and engage with struggles.Tempest members are engaged in activism in unions and other  workers’ organizations in housing rights, climate and racial justice movements, in the fights for bodily autonomy and gender liberation, against the threat of the far right, and for internationalist solidarity with Palestine and other struggles. 

We need new forms of revolutionary organization that can better meet this moment, that can bring fresh eyes to how we make revolutionary organization relevant to what’s happening and what needs to be done. We do not claim to have the answer to how a new revolutionary organizational form will come about. We want to contribute to the process of figuring out how to strengthen organized socialist forces in this era of worsening crises, a process that is underway in many different publications and organizations.

Our collective produces this online publication, pursuing pieces from activists and writers that grapple with the emerging questions for the Left. Our editors don’t uniformly endorse every position represented in the articles published, and operate on the premise that genuine engagement and debate will strengthen our movement and politics. 

Tempest aims to contribute to the reconstitution of revolutionary politics and organization in the United States and Canada today. 

If you want to get involved, get in touch!
mail@tempestmag.org