New Articles
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To remember is to fight!
Tempest shares the call of the Russian Socialist Movement for solidarity with Russian anti-war and anti-fascist activists.
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Class independence and the broad parties
Tempest’s Andrew Sernatinger responds to a debate with Left Voice on how revolutionary socialists should relate to broad parties.
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The Denmark Vesey rebellion (part 1)
Tempest member David Whitehouse examines how Denmark Vesey and his comrades recruited and organized in 1822 for an attempted uprising against slavery in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The contradictions of internationalism from above
Travis S. argues that a more promising road forward for effective confrontation with the U.S. empire lies in disruptive power from below.
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Worker insurgency and the New Deal
Kim Moody interrogates Eric Blanc’s account of the relationship between the Democrats and working-class self-activity in the New Deal era.
Recent Articles
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Is socialism winning?
Emma Wilde Botta contends that the idea that socialism is winning misreads the moment.
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Council power in the Iranian labor movement
Nasrin discusses how the memory of workers’ councils during the revolution of 1979 in Iran has shaped a new wave of class struggles in that country the last few years.
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Monuments to oppression
Bill Keach assesses the struggle to remove, relocate, and/or destroy certain monuments and statutes as both a reckoning with histories of racism and oppression and part of the process of envisioning a better future.
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What is socialism from below?
Sean Larson outlines different conceptions of socialism and asserts that only the self-emancipation of the working class can lead to the world we want.
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The elephant (and the donkey) in the room
Reflecting on the end of the election period, Luis Meiners compares the sharp attention to issues of empire paid by the U.S. establishment, with the relative silence on the part of much of the U.S. Left.
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Islamophobia unleashed in France
Sylvestre Jaffard, a member of the NPA, explains the context for the reactionary and Islamophobic backlash by the French government, following the murder of teacher Samuel Paty.
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A very “American” coup
Kit Adam Wainer argues that President Trump is in no position to steal an election or to lead a coup.
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Fighting for the air we breathe
Jessica Hansen-Weaver examines the larger implications of the recent surge of wildfires across the west coast.
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The rank-and-file strategy goes to school
New York City school teacher Peter Allen Lamphere explains the role of a rank and file caucus in advancing class struggles and shares some insights regarding recent socialist debates.