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  • A close-up of Walden Bellow's face speaking and gesturing with a microphone. The photo has a paintlike orange filter overlayed.

    An internationalist looks back 

    Alex 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.

  • A red-filtered photo of a crowd of people in front of the Capitol building holding and wearing American flag and Trump regalia.

    The buffoon, the empire, and the crisis

    Thomas 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.

  • A photograph of a crowd holding a sign saying "Jews say no to genocide." Photo is filtered with a purple tint.

    The instrumentalization of antisemitism and the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States

    Sherry 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.

  • A photo of Zohran Mamdani addressing a crowd on a microphone, covered with a red filter.

    The Mamdani moment

    While 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?

    The Tempest Collective argues that now is the time to throw ourselves into movements opposing President Trump and argue for the politics of solidarity.

  • A collage of different protest crowds from different cities with the names of each city over each photo.

    How mass protest can turn liberal dissent into struggles for liberation

    Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian discusses how leftists need to approach people attending mass protests against Trump.

  • A protest crowd holds a banner that says NO KINGS.

    No Kings protests

    Tempest members report back and reflect on No Kings demonstrations across the US.

  • End the war in Iran!

    The Tempest National Committee prepared the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s bombing of Iran.

  • The Middle East in flames—yet again

    Imran Kamyana assesses the social forces at play in Israel’s war against Iran.