New Articles

  • A photo of a rubbled building.

    Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis

    Earthquakes 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.

  • A red-tinted photo of ICE officers shooting non-lethal rounds.

    How do we stop the bloodshed?

    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.

  • Black and white photos of protests.

    Trump’s legal conspiracy (part two)

    In 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.

  • A black and white photo of the Prairieland detention center.

    Trump’s legal conspiracy (part one)

    In 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.

  • A composite of photos of Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov with a red filter.

    Try me for treason

    Try Me for Treason; Anti-war Protesters’ Speeches in the Russian Courts  is a film featuring excerpts from four speeches by Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov.

  • A drawing of a family in front of a house.

    Childhood and Marxism

    Kirstin Roberts shows how capitalism renders children as incomplete victims or threats in the context of the capitalist nuclear family–not as beings with personhood and rights. These images are rooted in the capitalist economy and ideologies of the family that buttress it.

Recent Articles

  • Photo of a city covered in smog.

    The smoke is at our door

    Julia Corrado reflects on the impacts of climate change and the Canadian wildfires, arguing that environmental disaster requires more than the market-based solutions on offer.

  • A crowd of protestors holding signs in German.

    Building an anti-fascist city

    Aaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.

  • A graphic of a red fest against the silhouettes of trees.

    The promise of workers’ power

    Debates among the International Socialists in 1976–77 offer lessons for socialists today—article by Bill Roberts.

  • A green maze in the background. Lime green book cover of "Escape from Capitalism by Clara E. Mettei" in the foreground.

    Can shattering capitalist economic theory lead to revolution? 

    Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.

  • A painting of three people sitting face to face over a table, looking down at a book.

    Party Time? Setting the record straight

    Giselle Gerolami responds to Charlie Post on the strengths and weaknesses of left organization, including Solidarity, of which she is a member.

  • Put workers and patients first!

    Workers at the University of Vermont Medical Center fight for a fair contract as the possibility of a strike looms.

  • Trump’s ethnonationalist immigration agenda

    Avery Wear argues that Trump’s second-term immigration agenda marks a historical shift from labor management to ethnonationalism, demanding a new left strategy.

  • Image of Rosa Luxemburg

    Revolutionary Futures

    Promise Li delivers a talk at Occidental College on “reform vs. revolution” that describes how Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project.

  • Frustration and anger on Syria’s streets

    Joseph Daher reports on a surge of protest in Syria.