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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…
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Solidarity with Venezuelan intellectuals
A call for solidarity with Venezuelan academics and intellectuals facing state repression. Please add your name to the petition.
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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,…
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Support Ukraine’s Nurses
A call for material support and solidarity with a campaign on behalf of the Ukrainian nurses union.
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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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“The starvation of Gaza is not a glitch in the system”
brian bean, writing for the Tempest National Committee, calls out the crocodile tears of the U.S. ruling class over the starvation of Gaza, and calls for an immediate response to the starving and a broadening of the movement against the genocide and the system behind it.
Recent Articles
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Leftist studies in China and the United States
Shi Yongqin is a translator whose life’s work has been to bring Trotsky’s writings to a Chinese audience. Here he talks with Paul Le Blanc.
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Trump and his oligarchs (back) at the gate
On the brink of the second Trump presidency, Tempest offers this editorial statement on the current moment and the tasks ahead.
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Report on the Amazon Teamsters’ strike in Southern California
Michael Fabregas and Promise Li, members of the Los Angeles branch of Tempest, report on Teamsters’ pickets against Amazon in Southern California.
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At NYU, pro-Palestinian efforts are in the crosshairs
BC Hamilton reports on the repression of pro-Palestine activism at NYU.
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After decades, an insurgency falters
The strongest force on the Philippine Left is faltering under long-term attrition. Alex de Jong explains the decline.
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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
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Navigating the storm, rebuilding the fightback
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