Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine
by Ukraine Solidarity Network
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
A Tempest editorial
by Tempest National CommitteeThe 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
Mamdani, Trump, and socialist strategy
by Ashley SmithAshley 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
The struggle for trans rights and liberation today
by Eric Maroney, Clarissa (Lars) Gold, and Ambrose MooreAs 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 student and trans activist Lia Smith.
Ukrainian nurses call for continued solidarity in the face of unrelenting attacks
by Kris Parker
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 campaign to help fundraise for Ukrainian nurses, while attempting to strengthen relationships between unions in the U.S. and nurses organized in the Be Like We Are network.
Was the Chinese revolution socialist?
A chapter from The Road to Tiananmen Square
by Charlie HoreThe 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
by Avery Wear
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
by Tim Goulet
Tim Goulet examines the history and recent right-ward direction of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).
“Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition
Review of David Camfield’s Red Flags
by Hakan YilmazDavid Camfield’s Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of “actually existing socialism.”
Electoralism cannot free Palestine
The problem of the Palestine solidarity movement is not ultraleftism
by Shireen Akram-BosharShireen Akram-Boshar argues that a recent interview by Eric Blanc with Bashir Abu-Manneh and Hoda Mitwally in Jacobin offers a mistaken analysis of the challenges facing the Palestine solidarity movement.