Mutual ruin? Or working-class revolution?
What Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss fails to consider
by Sam FriedmanSam Friedman reviews Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.
Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
Prioritizing great power rivalry with China, part two
by Ashley SmithDespite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.
May Day Strong!
Interview with CTU activist Jesse Sharkey
by Alex Schmaus and Jesse SharkeyTempest member Alex Schmaus interviewed Chicago Teachers Union activist Jesse Sharkey about the May Day Strong Meeting at CTU headquarters on July 18, 2025.
Schools as sites of struggle
What the ICE raids in LA and Trump’s defunding schools reveal
by Lois WeinerEducation scholar and activist Lois Weiner discusses the strength of education workers and the specific attacks facing the education sector.
Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
Prioritizing great power rivalry with China, part one
by Ashley SmithDespite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.
An internationalist looks back
A review of Walden Bello’s Global Battlefields
by Alex de JongAlex de Jong reviews the Filipino activist-scholar Walden Bello’s new memoir, Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love. Chronicling Bello’s political development, Global Battlefields provides us with an informative and entertaining portrait of a committed internationalist.
The buffoon, the empire, and the crisis
Reflecting on Trumpism at six months
by Thomas HummelThomas Hummel describes the onslaught of Trump’s first six months: a program of crisis-driven neoliberal austerity and ideological appeals to his petty bourgeois base.
The instrumentalization of antisemitism and the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States
An interview with Sherry Wolf and Charlie Post
by Sherry Wolf, Charlie Post, and Theodore DeutscherSherry Wolf and Charlie Post chart the bad-faith conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and argue for the importance of openly organizing as anti-Zionist Jews in relation to the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States.
The Mamdani moment
New hopes and new hazards for the NYC Left
by B. Colby HamiltonWhile the project of reforming the Democratic Party from within is a strategic non-starter, BC Hamilton cautions socialists against mere dismissal of Zohran Mamdani. Rather, he argues that a sober understanding of the limitations of Mamdani’s electoral strategy of inside-out reform must be married to a proactive campaign of solidaristic organizing.
Which way forward for the resistance?
Now is the time for independent politics and solidarity without exception
by Tempest National CommitteeThe Tempest Collective argues that now is the time to throw ourselves into movements opposing President Trump and argue for the politics of solidarity.