New Articles

  • Against a red background, a photo of an apartment building with fire escapes.

    Mamdani, the market, and the NYC housing crisis

    Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor speak to Tempest to provide further context for their recently published Spectre article about the NYC housing crisis, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s policy, and the debates on the Left.

  • Against a red background, a sketch of handcuffs with a caterpillar and butterfly crawling and flying off of them.

    Communism, abolition, states, and the future of the Left

    In this conversation with Demetrius Noble, David Camfield and brian bean analyze the capitalist state and argue for abolition of the state and the police that defend it.

  • A photo of a crowd of anti-ICE protestors filling a street.

    Lessons from Minneapolis

    The Tempest National Committee argues that we can use the kinds of mass protests seen in Minneapolis to build the organizational capacity to launch mass strikes against Trump.

  • Iran on the brink?

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Houshang Sepehr about the recent wave of mass protest in Iran and the Iranian regime’s brutal response.

  • When the rubber hits the road

    Three organizers discuss putting the tradition of socialism from below to work in their organizing projects. 

  • A photo of Delcy Rodriguez sitting at a table with other people, speaking with the Venezuelan flag behind her.

    Venezuela after the coup

    Ashley Smith talks to Federico Fuentes about the Donroe Doctrine, the crisis of Chavismo, and anti-imperialist resistance.

Recent Articles

  • A drawing. Background: a keffiyeh pattern. Foreground: A woman in a white hijab holds a camera up to her face. A Palestinian flag is in the lens.

    Killing the messengers 

    In the midst of Israel’s ongoing genocide, the editorial board remembers the more than 300 journalists who have been targeted and killed by the state of Israel.

  • A mosaic image of two goldfish facing each other against a background of orange, above a wavy strip of blue.

    Hiding our goals is no way to win

    brian bean and Thomas Hummel respond to Ben Burgis’s recent Jacobin article, “The Point of Politics is to Convince People, Not Grandstand.”

  • An icon of a flag on a pole off to the right. Image is overlaid with red.

    Against the New McCarthyism

    Ashley Smith argues that the Left must reject both the civility trap that liberals and Democrats have fallen into, which simply legitimizes Kirk’s bigotry as debate, and the dead-end of individualist violence. The task for socialists is to advocate and build the capacity to carry out collective organizing, protests, and strikes to advance democratic demands.

  • A huge crowd marches across a bridge. The photo is filtered with a bright green.

    The Mamdani campaign, left horizons, and the “defund the police” question

    Keith Rosenthal discusses the New York City Mayoral race,  Zohran Mamdani’s courting of the New York Police Department (NYPD), and cautions the socialist Left against abandoning racial justice demands.

  • On the left, a close-up of Jeremy Corbyn's face looking off to the right. On the right, a headshot of Zarah Sultana looking at the camera. The image is filtered in orange.

    Your Party: Don’t fuck this up! 

    UK socialists in rs21 call on the country’s new political party not to squander this opportunity.

  • Dark blue background with light blue shapes, taken from the shapes of the Nepal flag, against it.

    Nepal protests have deeper roots

    Protests against a social media in Nepal ban grew into a full blown uprising after police killed 19 protesters. But what is next? Tempest republishes this article from Alex de Jong, initially run in International Viewpoint, with minor edits.

  • A photo of Tom Alter smiling at the camera holding his dog. The photo has a red filter over top of it.

    Texas State University Fires History Professor Tom Alter

    A statement from the Texas State Employees Union condemning the termination of Texas State University Professor Tom Alter. Tempest stands in solidarity with Tom Alter.

  • A photo of a line of soldiers standing in front of the Capitol building.

    Trump’s D.C. occupation is an attack on all of us

    In this interview, conducted before Trump’s direct control of the M.P.D. expired, D.C.-based scholar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò discusses the forms of resistance and experimental collectivity that emerged in opposition to Trump’s takeover and considers the possibility of future escalation and organization.

  • A photo of a protest for Palestine. Background: signs in Spanish and Palestine flags. Foreground: 3 people, 2 of whom are wearing keffiyehs.

    Palestine on trial in Argentina

    As Argentina continues to arrest peaceful protesters, socialist Alejandro Bodart speaks to Tempest again about the criminalization of himself and other advocates of Palestinian freedom.