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  • Against a bright pink background are two sketchlike drawings in navy of Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani.

    After the surreal summit

    Ashley Smith analyzes the surreal, chummy meeting between the authoritarian Trump and NYC Mayor Elect and self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and argues that building mass class and social struggle is the only way forward.

  • Against a dark grey background are 5 candles in the colors of the trans flag stripes (blue, pink, white, pink, blue) from left to right.

    Resisting transphobia

    As part of the past week of events that took place throughout the country during Trans Awareness Week and the observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, the Vermont Tempest chapter hosted an event, “Resisting Transphobia,” that took place in the backdrop of the local tragic death earlier this month of Middlebury College…

  • A photo of surgeons wearing masks standing over a patient they are operating on. The picture is filtered in blue and yellow. To the right, flowers are imposed over the photo.

    Ukrainian nurses call for continued solidarity in the face of unrelenting attacks

    Ukraine’s healthcare system is pushed to its limits, Kris Parker explains. Hundreds of thousands of combined military and civilian casualties, frequent Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure, and systemic underfunding of hospitals have posed significant challenges to those working in healthcare. The U.S.-based Ukrainian NGO Kryla, with support from the Ukraine Solidarity Network, has launched a…

  • Green background. Against it is a drawing of Mao surrounded by people waving red books. To the right it says "socialism from below series" with a cyclone image.

    Was the Chinese revolution socialist?

    The Chinese revolution aimed for national sovereignty and economic development, but not for socialism. Tempest publishes a chapter from Charlie Hore’s new edition of The Road to Tiananmen Square.

  • Against a red background, a dark red silhouette of a group of people waving flags and their fists and arms in the air.

    We need socialism to save democracy 

    A radicalizing working-class majority is ripe for the long-held argument of the tradition of socialism from below: only revolutionary workers’ power, socialism, can win lasting democracy.

  • Mustard background. A sketch-effect image of Sean O'Brien on the left, facing to the right, and J.D. Vance on the right, facing to the left.

    The conservative (d)evolution of Teamsters for a Democratic Union

    Tim Goulet examines the history and recent right-ward direction of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).

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    Tempest asked Andrew Bergman, Nevena Pilipović-Wengler, Toly Rinberg, and Judy Wraight, long standing organizers within UAWD, about the recent proposal, originating with a section of the UAWD leadership, to liquidate the important rank and file caucus. A key vote will take place on Sunday. They provide some basic background and explain the principled importance for…

  • Against a solid red background, a black sketch of a person with short hair wearing pince-nez glasses.

    Listening to Victor’s Children 

    Tempest interviews David Camfield about his podcast Victor’s Children and its role in promoting the politics of socialism from below. 

  • Within and without?

    BC Hamilton explains that Zohran Mamdani’s bid for mayor represents the ongoing battle and committed political tactics of the DSA’s inside-out approach. This is the playbook that Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Mamdani have stuck with: democratic socialists who run as Democrats and, when they win, continue to operate within the Democratic Party, forming a left wing…

  • Strategies of resistance 

    A panel discussion on the Trump attacks, the beginnings to the organized mass response, and the strategic paths open to the resistance. 

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

    Trump and the Billionaires

    DK Renton responds to Mel Bienenfeld, raising questions about how to understand the second Trump administration and its relationship to the capitalist class. 

  • A drawing of a book made to look like a matchbook. The cover of the book has the US flag on it, and the matches are on fire.

    Targeted scholars, targeted institutions

    A Tempest roundtable of scholars and activists on the federal and state-level assaults on higher education and strategies of fighting back.

  • We need to do this together

    Tempest member David Whitehouse discusses the resistance to Trump, the arrival of a constitutional crisis, and the need for independent, member-driven Left organizations to protect working people and the oppressed.

  • A person stands at the end of an aisle of warehouse shelves. Photo has a pink toned filter over it.

    Lessons from the Quebec Amazon union campaign

    Amazon’s shutdown of its entire operation in Montreal is a historic moment for capital’s assault on workers and their ability to organize for dignity. The shocking and abrupt move needs to be seen within a broader context, writes Mostafa Henaway.

  • Photo of a tank driving in front of a building in Ukraine. Image is filtered with a blue and yellow filter.

    Death from above, resistance from below, in Ukraine

    In the fourth straight year of Ukrainians defending themselves, Kris Parker writes that a new dynamic threat is rapidly developing under the guise of a Trump administration overtly sympathetic to the rightwing Putin regime and quickly moving to undermine Ukraine’s ability to defend itself.