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  • A photo of an Air Canada plane on a runway.

    More pay, but less union democracy

    Striking flight attendants at Air Canada have won real gains in pay, but union officials bargained away the workers’ right to reject the deal and fight for more. As the ratification vote goes on, David Camfield explains.

  • An image of a shattered window.

    Democrats are saboteurs in the resistance camp

    Avery Wear argues that ignoring the differences between the increasingly authoritarian Republican Party and the Democrats isn’t politically effective. Socialists should acknowledge the reality of these differences while making clear that the Democratic Party—as a party of capital and capitalists, even liberal ones—will ultimately sabotage fights of working-class and oppressed people against the authoritarian and…

  • A militarized group of police stands while tear gas floats to the left.

    Solidarity with Venezuelan intellectuals

    A call for solidarity with Venezuelan academics and intellectuals facing state repression. Please add your name to the petition.

  • A photo of posters pasted on a city wall. In the middle, a ZOHRAN FOR MAYOR poster. The whole photo has an orange and grey filter applied to it.

    Mamdani and the tasks for NYC socialists 

    After much collective discussion and debate, the New York City Tempest Collective Organizing Committee here explains the local’s approach to the Mamdani campaign. This includes recognizing the acute need for collective organizing beyond the campaign to win crucial reforms, including those promised by Mamdani, and to defend ourselves against the coming attacks from the right,…

  • Solid blue background. Against it, a grey sketch of a nurse on the left, and a sketch of 3 flowers on the right.

    Support Ukraine’s Nurses

    A call for material support and solidarity with a campaign on behalf of the Ukrainian nurses union. 

  • A sketch of a classroom against a red background. Empty desks face a short podium in front of a wall with a board, a clock and speaker above the board, and a closed door next to it.

    Strike lessons from Massachusetts teachers

    Peter Allen-Lamphere discusses the education strike wave in Massachusetts with presidential candidate for the Massachusetts Teachers Association and Educators for a Democratic Union member, Matt Bach.

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    Video from a Tempest Collective sponsored roundtable discussion held earlier this month on the Syrian revolution.

  • Campus policing today

    University of Texas professor Karma Chávez describes a new era of campus collaboration with police.

  • A person holds a sign written in Russian.

    Imperial poison in Russian politics

    As we approach the three year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleg Shein, a Russian historian, and a former MP in the Russian State Duma, assesses the impact on Russian politics both now and for its future. 

  • After the South Korean coup attempt

    Hong Myungkyo explains the reason why martial law was rescinded was because of the citizens’ resistance to it, and the reason why state violence under martial law was not implemented as Yoon had hoped was because there remains, in South Korean society generally, a living memory of recent and successful democratic struggles, a history of…

  • Women’s liberation and the fight against the Trump regime

    Linda Loew replies to the Tempest editorial from January 2025 highlighting the misogynistic attacks on women and bodily autonomy and the centrality of these struggles to an anti-capitalist resistance to the Trump regime.

  • Trump seizes power in D.C.

    Unlike eight years ago, there is little protest against Trump, who seems all-powerful. But his administration will be prevented from establishing stable rule by its deep internal divisions, policies that will exacerbate not solve the country’s problems, and its tendency to overreach and impose deeply unpopular policies. All of this will inevitably trigger resistance.

  • Drawing of a person wearing a mask leaning over and holding the earth.

    Pandemic futures

    Sam Friedman, Sara Johnson and Karyn Pomerantz report on the threat of a Bird Flu pandemic, analyzing capitalism’s failures in mitigating pandemics like COVID-19. They argue for a socialist vision of public health that prioritizes the well-being of people, the welfare of animals and a commitment to protect the environment.

  • A man walks up the steps towards Congress. Image against a dark purple background.

    Who and what is the ruling class?

    In part two of “Who and What is the Working Class,” Josh On discusses the relationship between the market and the state. Part one is here.

  • Defending trans students in NYC schools

    Educator Danielle Bullock reports on the struggle to defend transgender students, arguing that  solidarity among teachers, transgender students, activists, and community members will be crucial for NYC to remain a progressive oasis in Trump’s America.