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  • Militarized police in headgear aim guns toward a group of students in the street, surrounded by wafts of teargas.

    Neither authoritarianism nor exploitation

    The Venezuelan socialist organization Marea Socialista offers a powerful critique of the Maduro government and calls for independent working-class organization.

  • An abstract image of jagged red lines.

    The crisis of liberal hegemony

    Ilya Budraitskis discusses the successes of the far-right internationally, the post-fascists, and what the Left must do in response.

  • The battle of Los Angeles

    Tempest members provide a gripping account of the rise of pro-immigrant resistance and police and military backlash in Los Angeles.

  • A close-up shot of a row of pride flags stuck in the grass.

    Assessing the queer fightback

    Within a few days of Trump’s first anti-trans executive order, protests were called, and trans people and their allies began to gather in large numbers to demonstrate their opposition in NYC and beyond. To grow and sustain this opposition, it is important for organizers to recount and reflect on the shape and form of struggle…

  • A picture of a sign in a protest crowd with "resist tyranny" written on it.

    Prospects for organized mass struggle

    Mel Bienenfeld offers an optimistic assessment of the emerging struggles against Trumpism and calls for greater organization.

  • A mural depicting the inside of an industrial factory.

    Building solidarity in auto: across the shop floor, across the borders

    An interview with UAW Local 160 member and skilled mold-maker, Jessie Kelly, about Trump, tariff policy, U.S. nationalism and the struggle to build an internationalist and solidaristic class politics on the shop floor and within the Union. 

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  • Photo of an empty polling center, with a dark orange and blue filter.

    Not showing up for Harris

    With a focus on the supposed shift toward Trump in New York City, BC Hamilton argues that the real story of the election was a lack of motivation to vote for status-quo politics.

  • A red silhouette of Donald Trump on the left points a finger towards a blue silhouette of Kamala Harris speaking on the right. Between them is a picture of a figure in a top hat standing on top of a pyramid of tanks and other weaponry, being held up by and crushing masses off people underneath. Purple background.

    Trump vs Harris: how did the U.S.A. get here? 

    David Camfield interviews Tempest’s Aaron Amaral about the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the development of the two-party system, and the history and possibility of mass challenges from below for an episode of podcast Victor’s Children. What follows is a transcript of that interview, edited for length and clarity.

  • A red, paintbrush-effect-filtered photo of Paul Foot's face looking off into the distance to the right.

    A review of Paul Foot: A Life in Politics

    Bill Roberts reviews the new biography Paul Foot: A Life in Politics.

  • An all-purple, close-up illustration of a candle flame.

    Re-opening the question of Jewish Liberation

    The new book on fighting antisemitism by Ben Lorber and Shane Burley could not have come at a better time, writes Naomi Bennet.

  • A compilation of photos, all overlaid with a red filter. From top left, clockwise: photo of a person being tortured at Abu Ghraib, people outside the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, a protest in Ferguson, and of a medical rescue in Gaza.

    When the circus leaves town

    The Tempest National Committee argues that while there is little to nothing that the socialist movement can do now to challenge the right-wing visions on offer in the 2024 U.S. elections, a serious reckoning with how we got here and the post-election tasks of the Left is critical to raising our collective horizons beyond the…

  • A photo of Donald Trump on the left and of Vladimir Lenin on the right, all overlaid with a yellow tint.

    The logic of Trump vs. the logic of Lenin

    Paul LeBlanc argues that socialists must adapt Leninism to the current moment to face Trumpism’s political effectiveness.

  • A pencil-drawn image of a city skyline. In the top-right, there are direction signs written in Chinese. Below it are people walking away across a bridge toward the city building. Whole image is overlaid with a red tint.

    A review of China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry 

    Ben Rosenfield reviews Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith’s China in Global Capitalism.

  • A silhouetted group of students walking, with a green filter over the image.

    A racist counter-offensive in Texas 

    Interview with Joshua Hamilton on the attacks on DEI in the Texas higher-education system.

  • Notes on the ILA tentative agreement and the end of the strike

    Kim Moody offers some initial thoughts on the settlement of the East Coast strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the role of the Biden Administration.