We have to do something
And we have to do it with other people
by Kristen Guptil-Godfrey and Pranav JaniOhio professor and activist Pranav Jani interviews organizer Kristen Guptil-Godfrey about solidarity and socialist organizing.
The economics of U.S. imperialism (part 1)
From boom to AI bubble?
by G. StewartDespite mounting corporate debt and a disastrous war on Iran, the U.S. economy is powering ahead—led by the investment boom in AI. G. Stewart explores the resilience of the economy and the contradictions that threaten to undermine it.
Ukraine Needs International Solidarity as Russia Escalates Its Aggression
by Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S.
We need to strengthen global working-class solidarity with the Ukrainian working class and their self-organization during the continued devastation of the war, argues the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) in this republished statement.
Workers will fight for their self-interest
A response to Vivek Chibber on planning, market socialism, and the necessity of rupture
by Kim MoodyKim Moody assesses some recent writings and interview by Catalyst editor and podcaster Professor Vivek Chibber on state planning, market socialism and the transition to socialism.
In defense of abolition
Resisting the backlash
by Tempest National CommitteeAs 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
A review of Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System
by Paul FleckensteinPaul 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
Interview with Gonzalo Gómez
by Shireen Akram-Boshar and Anderson BeanEarthquakes 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?
by Tempest National Committee
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)
Attacks against the movement
by George B. WashingtonIn 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)
Attacks against the movement
by George B. WashingtonIn 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.