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  • A painting of three people sitting face to face over a table, looking down at a book. A pink filter over the photo.

    Organizing for reform and socialism in the Mamdani era

    In this response to Ashley Smith, Alan Maass argues in support of electoral socialist campaigns, including those that make use of the Democratic Party line.

  • A yellow-filtered image of a school bus transposed next to the face of Zohran Mamdani speaking on a microphone transposed in front of a sign of the brooklyn bridge.

    Mamdani’s mayoral control mishap 

    NYC educators Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien analyze and critique Mamdani’s support for mayoral control of the city’s schools.

  • A purple-filtered photo of protest signs reading things like "General strike", "ICE out of Minnesota", and "Arrest Jonathan Ross for Murder Now"

    The long arc of struggle 

    Harsha Walia argues in the context of the mass mobilizations against ICE in Minnesota, for a politics grounded in the long arc of struggle and learning across generations.

  • Iran: The anatomy of Dey

    Iranian exile Siyavash Shahabi explores the roots of the country’s crisis and the currents that make up the recent wave of resistance.

  • U.S. out of Venezuela – ICE out of our communities!

    The United Left Platform is hosting a meeting to help build the movements in opposition to U.S. imperialism and against Trump’s wars abroad and those here in the U.S.

  • A close-up photo of a crowd holding anti-ICE signs. The photo has an orangish-red filter.

    Resistance to ICE’s war on Chicago

    Members of the Chicago Tempest Collective compiled these oral history interviews with anti-ICE activists in Chicago.

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  • A painting of a dancer with a flowing skirt, duplicated twice next to each other. Image overlaid with a thick yellow filter.

    Mutual ruin? Or working-class revolution?

    Sam Friedman reviews Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.

  • US dollar bills and Chinese yuan bills overlap. A pink filter over the image.

    Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance

    Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.

  • A close-up of a crowd of people at a march. One wears a sweatshirt that says CTU on it, another holds a signpole.

    May Day Strong!

    Tempest member Alex Schmaus interviewed Chicago Teachers Union activist Jesse Sharkey about the May Day Strong Meeting at CTU headquarters on July 18, 2025.

  • A red-filtered photo of a school bus facing left on a street in front of a wall and trees.

    Schools as sites of struggle

    Education scholar and activist Lois Weiner discusses the strength of education workers and the specific attacks facing the education sector.

  • US dollar bills and Chinese yuan bills overlap.

    Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance

    Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.

  • 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.