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  • Green background. Against it is a drawing of Mao surrounded by people waving red books. To the right it says "socialism from below series" with a cyclone image.

    Was the Chinese revolution socialist?

    The Chinese revolution aimed for national sovereignty and economic development, but not for socialism. Tempest publishes a chapter from Charlie Hore’s new edition of The Road to Tiananmen Square.

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    We need socialism to save democracy 

    A radicalizing working-class majority is ripe for the long-held argument of the tradition of socialism from below: only revolutionary workers’ power, socialism, can win lasting democracy.

  • Mustard background. A sketch-effect image of Sean O'Brien on the left, facing to the right, and J.D. Vance on the right, facing to the left.

    The conservative (d)evolution of Teamsters for a Democratic Union

    Tim Goulet examines the history and recent right-ward direction of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).

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    “Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition

    David Camfield’s Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of “actually existing socialism.”

  • A drawing of a Palestinian flag waving behind a barbed-wire fence.

    Electoralism cannot free Palestine

    Shireen Akram-Boshar argues that a recent interview by Eric Blanc with Bashir Abu-Manneh and Hoda Mitwally in Jacobin offers a mistaken analysis of the challenges facing the Palestine solidarity movement.

  • A sketch of an open book with blank pages and a latch on the cover. The whole image is a pale yellow.

    Breaking barriers to academic freedom

    Tempest member Dana Cloud urges scholars to tell the truth and take sides to defend academic freedom.

  • A drawing of a candle lit inside a chalice, against a plain, pinkish-red background.

    Loyalty to truth and solidarity—not to the authoritarian state

    Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian recently spoke at a National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths organized by the American Association of University Professors, which notes that President Trump’s so-called Compact with universities “violates the First Amendment by forcing universities to surrender their right of free speech and academic freedom in exchange for federal funds.”

  • Speak out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the fight for free speech

    The Tempest Collective is a supporter of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter and encourages everyone to attend this event on Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm ET, as well as to join the fight to defend Tom Alter and the growing list of victims of Trumpite repression and the broad attacks on all of…

  • The left half of the image has a green background with a silhouette of a businessman in a top hat. The right half has a dark blue background with overlayed cutout photos of Zohran Mamdani, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries each speaking at microphones.

    The candidate, the billionaires, and the Democrats

    Mel Bienenfeld explains the relationship of Zohran Mamdani to New York elites.