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  • Signs that read "we speak for th trees" and "hands off this"

    We are the Lorax and must speak for the trees

    Rose reports on the environmentalist struggle against the city of Los Angeles to save San Pascual Park, demonstrating that democratic, community-based groups willing to fight for a future that benefits the people—not profits—are how we build our mobilizing muscles.

  • A floor mosaic of bees.

    Inside the French student revolt

    In this interview with Janette Zahia Corcelius and Jane-Léonie Bellay, students report from the student revolt in France.

  • Justice for Oscar Belgal

    Statement from Compas de la Diáspora in solidarity with Oscar Belgal and other victims of ICE and NYPD violence.

  • A photo of Rosa Pepper-Macias speaking into a microphone with people holding signs in the background.

    There is no normal to restore

    Blanca Missé reports on the Connecticut state senate campaign of Rosa Pepper-Macias and argues for the importance and viability of independent political campaigns and their role in opening greater space for working class self-organization and political power.

  • A photo of Trump overlayed with a photo of the white house's east wing demolition.

    Trump is sunk 

    The Tempest National Committee describes Donald Trump’s declining popularity and potential ruthlessness that must be met by social movements from below.

  • Photos of signs from protests to abolish ICE and police.

    In defense of abolition

    A discussion on abolition is being hosted by the Tempest Collective POC Caucus this Saturday, October 24 at 2 pm ET.

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  • An image of Cornell University with the name tag "Hello my name is Jane Doe" in a repeated pattern across it.

    The gang rape at Cornell

    Dana Cloud puts the rape at Cornell in the context of a socialist analysis of gender violence and the fight for women’s liberation.

  • Pink background with the symbol of the democratic party in front.

    Anti-Woke electoralism

    Hakan Yilmaz argues that flip-flopping on wokeness is a byproduct of the electoralist logic embraced by right-wing DSA caucuses that make up DSA’s leadership majority, and that discounting movements that center the rights of oppressed communities moves the socialist movement away from the long-term goal of building strong and democratic working-class organizations.

  • Background: photo of protest at Ohio statehouse. Foreground: logo of "together we rise" podcast.

    We have to do something

    Ohio professor and activist Pranav Jani interviews organizer Kristen Guptill-Godfrey about solidarity and socialist organizing.

  • A yellow picture of bubbles.

    The economics of U.S. imperialism (part 1)

    Despite mounting corporate debt and a disastrous war on Iran, the U.S. economy is powering ahead—led by the investment boom in AI. G. Stewart explores the resilience of the economy and the contradictions that threaten to undermine it.

  • A crowd of people holding Ukranian flags.

    Ukraine Needs International Solidarity as Russia Escalates Its Aggression

    We need to strengthen global working-class solidarity with the Ukrainian working class and their self-organization during the continued devastation of the war, argues the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) in this republished statement.

  • A floor mosaic of bees.

    Workers will fight for their self-interest

    Kim Moody assesses some recent writings and interview by Catalyst editor and podcaster Professor Vivek Chibber on state planning, market socialism and the transition to socialism.

  • Signs on a fence that say "bolition" and "stop the violence"

    In defense of abolition

    As prominent leftists and progressives scramble to walk back their previous commitments to “woke” demands, the Tempest National Committee explains why abolition politics is fundamental to socialism.

  • Book cover with title "Metabolic rifts: capitalism's assault on the earth system by Ian Angus" with an illustration of a rift in the earth between rich people and regular people.

    Confronting the ecological crisis

    Paul Fleckenstein reviews Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism Assault on the Earth System and argues that the book makes an important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to our compounding ecological crisis.

  • 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.