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    Introducing the UAWD’s Daily Struggle

    UAWD, a rank-and-file caucus within UAW, is holding a launch event this Sunday, October 19, at 3 pm ET for a new worker-led publication by and for UAW members that will provide a platform for workers to speak for themselves. Register for the event here.

  • A photo of two men in suits, Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn, leaning together, talking. The photo has a red filter over it.

    Rehabilitating McCarthyism

    As Trump continues to escalate his campaign of domestic repression, Tempest offers a perspective from Bill Keach on the repression of another period—the McCarthy era.

  • Two sketch-style portraits of indigenous people, each with feathers in their hair and wearing a necklace. The portrait to the left is filtered in green, the portrait to the right is filtered in orange.

    Indigenous Peoples’ Day

    The Tempest editorial board suggests a list of readings and resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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    “A huge massacre awaits”

    Tempest’s Shireen Akram-Boshar asked Toufic Haddad to characterize the current phase of the Gaza genocide.

  • A photo of Tom Alter smiling at the camera holding his dog. The photo has a green filter over top of it.

    Statement by the Committee to Defend History Professor Tom Alter

    A call for support for professor fired for speaking at a socialist conference.

  • A drawing. Background: a keffiyeh pattern. Foreground: A woman in a white hijab holds a camera up to her face. A Palestinian flag is in the lens.

    Killing the messengers 

    In the midst of Israel’s ongoing genocide, the editorial board remembers the more than 300 journalists who have been targeted and killed by the state of Israel.

Recent Articles

  • For revolutionaries, the period must be defined by the international fight against the far right

    Thomas Hummel describes how the rise of the far right defines the tasks of socialists today.

  • A Tesla Cybertruck is on fire, behind a newspaper cover that says "Face the Truth: Richest Man Destroys Aid to the Poor"

    Tesla: An Appeal for an International Anti-Fascist Campaign

    An appeal to build support for the international anti-fascist campaign directed at Tesla and its billionaire, pro-Trump, neo-Nazi owner, Elon Musk.

  • Between Trump and Putin

    Tempest republishes an article from Daniel Tanuro responding to the political alliance between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and its meaning for the European Left. Tanuro warns against any alignment with European capital and the imperial interests of the European Union while highlighting the importance of defending the Ukrainians right to self-determination. 

  • Far-right surges, but left surprises, in German elections

    Sean Larson analyses the outcome of last month’s German elections. 

  • An umbrella underneath the rain. Red tint over the image.

    The radical roots of harm reduction

    Even the best accounts of the movement for harm reduction leave out the role of Marxists, anarchists, and other radicals. Sam Friedman sets the record straight.

  • So-called axis of resistance  

    Iran has been attempting to achieve a regional balance of power against Israel and the U.S. as well as pursue its own military and economic aims in the region. The regime views any challenge to its influence in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip, whether from below by popular forces or from Israel, other…

  • A black illustration against a burnt orange background, of different people walking over hilly ground from left to right, some holding each other's hands.

    Trump’s anti-immigrant push 

    Aly Wane predicts what’s coming for immigrants in the Trump era.

  • Each blow against oppression advances us all

    The Tempest National Committee argues that struggles against oppression are an essential part of class struggle and charts a political alternative that rejects the dead-end of class reductionism.

  • Illustration of young people, some in headscarves, reading.

    Scholasticide at the American Historical Association 

    Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision.