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  • 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.

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  • Photo of young men holding guns with their faces painted stand in lines and face right. A dark blue filter over the photo.

    After decades, an insurgency falters

    The strongest force on the Philippine Left is faltering under long-term attrition. Alex de Jong explains the decline.

  • For an end to last-gasp liberalism

    Sarang Narasimhaiah calls for a break with the deeply ingrained but unacknowledged principles and protocols of liberalism and the organization of an independent left alternative.

  • Grief, mourning, and solidarity

    Sarah Jaffe discusses grief, Palestine, and the pandemic in an interview about her recent book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

  • Navigating the storm, rebuilding the fightback

    Help support the Tempest Collective and Tempestmag.org by donating to our fundraiser.

  • Santa Socialism

    John Lang explores what it means to engage in wishful thinking about political change.

  • Rosa Luxemburg’s war against cynicism

    Sean Larson reviews the newest volume in The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.

  • Uprising for democracy in the Caucasus

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith and Posle Media’s Ilya Budraitskis interview Georgian activists and scholars Ia Eradze, Luka Nakhutsrishvili, and Lela Rekhviashvili about the roots of the uprising, its trajectory, and Georgia’s place in global capitalism and the imperialist order.

  • A notebook transposed on a dark red background with notes.

    Notes on an Interview with Joseph Daher

    Lizartistry shares graphic notes on the Tempest interview with Joseph Daher about the fall of Assad and the rebellion in Syria.

  • A drawing of a hallway of a penitentiary with a dark green and blue filter.

    Borders are prisons and prisons are borders

    Kristen Godfrey argues that the Left must call for an end to borders and nation-states, and build solidarity among Black people and immigrants in and out of the United States to resist displacement and immobility