New Articles
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The smoke is at our door
Julia Corrado reflects on the impacts of climate change and the Canadian wildfires, arguing that environmental disaster requires more than the market-based solutions on offer.
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Building an anti-fascist city
Aaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.
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The promise of workers’ power
Debates among the International Socialists in 1976–77 offer lessons for socialists today—article by Bill Roberts.
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Can shattering capitalist economic theory lead to revolution?
Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.
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Party Time? Setting the record straight
Giselle Gerolami responds to Charlie Post on the strengths and weaknesses of left organization, including Solidarity, of which she is a member.
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Put workers and patients first!
Workers at the University of Vermont Medical Center fight for a fair contract as the possibility of a strike looms.
Recent Articles
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Standing up to MAGA’s war against the people
The United Left Platform statement on the escalation of state-sponsored murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine by the Trump administration and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
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Solidarity without exception
Sam Friedman argues for the connection between the Left’s principled defense of the rights of national self-determination, in places like Iran and Ukraine, with the historic development of capitalism and imperialism and the movements which arose in struggle against them.
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Iran’s Revolution was not destined to end in clerical rule
Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that the outcome of the Iranian Revolution was not inevitable. It contained democratic and egalitarian possibilities that were defeated through political struggle rather than cultural destiny.
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Two cases, one tradition
Blanca Missé argues that the legal repression of activists calls for a political response inside the courtroom—linked to organizing on the outside.
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Afro-surrealism with a banging soundtrack
What makes I Love Boosters distinctive is the clarity of its class politics—a review by Glenn Allen.
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Patrimonial Bonapartism
Anthony Teso makes the case for seeing Trump’s regime as patrimonial and Bonapartist in character rather than fascist or populist-authoritarian.
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Tempest, the United Front approach, and “the Resistance”
Aaron Amaral assesses how revolutionaries should relate to the constellation of forces that have grown up in opposition to the Trump administration and its authoritarian efforts
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From squats to trenches
Paweł Jędral reports on the activity and ideas of a Ukrainian leftist collective in the armed resistance to the Russian invasion.
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Solidarity with striking ICE hostages!
Tempest interviews Izzy, a NYC activist, about their experiences in organizing in support of the strikers and their families at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center.