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  • A crowd of people fills a street of houses with their backs to the camera. Photo has a green filter over it.

    Minneapolis shows the way

    Friday’s mass strike actions in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump’s racist campaign of street terror—and an example for activists in other cities to follow. A Tempest National Committee statement.

  • A photo of Nicolás Maduro driving an army car with others in it, holding his fist up, with a crowd of people behind. Photo is filtered with a faded brownish texture.

    The end of pretenses

    The January 3 attack on Venezuela, says Anderson Bean, was the collision of U.S. imperial escalation with a regime that had dismantled the very social forces capable of defending sovereignty from below.

  • On a street of houses, a row of police and police cars faces a group of people. The photo is filtered with a cream and brown color filter.

    ICE is waging class war

    ICE terror is an attack on the whole working class. Anthony Teso explains.

  • A black and white photo of a crowd facing off with a line of police officers in front of a building.

    We can’t vote our way out of this mess

    The Tempest National Committee looks to the emergence of mass protests as the way to challenge Trump’s authoritarianism.

  • A fuschia-filtered photo of a CUPE flag flying in front of a building.

    Being on strike when your employer is a union 

    Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since October 27, 2025. Chris Little and Jeffery R. Webber sat down with CUPE 1281 members, Nicole Leach and Manuel Marqués, to discuss the reasons behind the strike and the development of the dispute to date.

  • Una foto de un caza en el aire aterrizando en la cubierta de vuelo de un barco.

    ¡Contra la guerra imperialista de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela!

    Anderson Bean entrevista al socialista venezolano Gonzalo Gómez sobre la escalada de la intervención estadounidense en Venezuela, sus antecedentes, lo que está en juego y una estrategia de resistencia al imperialismo.

Recent Articles

  • 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.

  • Militarized police in headgear aim guns toward a group of students in the street, surrounded by wafts of teargas.

    Neither authoritarianism nor exploitation

    The Venezuelan socialist organization Marea Socialista offers a powerful critique of the Maduro government and calls for independent working-class organization.

  • An abstract image of jagged red lines.

    The crisis of liberal hegemony

    Ilya Budraitskis discusses the successes of the far-right internationally, the post-fascists, and what the Left must do in response.

  • The battle of Los Angeles

    Tempest members provide a gripping account of the rise of pro-immigrant resistance and police and military backlash in Los Angeles.

  • A close-up shot of a row of pride flags stuck in the grass.

    Assessing the queer fightback

    Within a few days of Trump’s first anti-trans executive order, protests were called, and trans people and their allies began to gather in large numbers to demonstrate their opposition in NYC and beyond. To grow and sustain this opposition, it is important for organizers to recount and reflect on the shape and form of struggle…