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  • An illustration of a human head, x-rayed with a brain in it.

    In the crosshairs of AI (part three)

    Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part three proposes organizing interventions and strategies of resistance for the Left.

  • An illustration of a human head, x-rayed with a brain in it.

    In the crosshairs of AI (part two)

    Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part two explores AI’s connection to global labor, climate, and imperialism struggles.

  • An illustration of a human head, x-rayed with a brain in it.

    In the crosshairs of AI

    Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left.

  • An image of Cornell University with the name tag "Hello my name is Jane Doe" in a repeated pattern across it.

    The gang rape at Cornell

    Dana Cloud puts the rape at Cornell in the context of a socialist analysis of gender violence and the fight for women’s liberation.

  • Pink background with the symbol of the democratic party in front.

    Anti-Woke electoralism

    Hakan Yilmaz argues that flip-flopping on wokeness is a byproduct of the electoralist logic embraced by right-wing DSA caucuses that make up DSA’s leadership majority, and that discounting movements that center the rights of oppressed communities moves the socialist movement away from the long-term goal of building strong and democratic working-class organizations.

  • Background: photo of protest at Ohio statehouse. Foreground: logo of "together we rise" podcast.

    We have to do something

    Ohio professor and activist Pranav Jani interviews organizer Kristen Guptill-Godfrey about solidarity and socialist organizing.

Recent Articles

  • A red-tinted photo of ICE officers shooting non-lethal rounds.

    How do we stop the bloodshed?

    In the wake of the ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine over the summer, the Tempest National Committee makes the case for the Left to build and support independent immigrant defense networks.

  • Black and white photos of protests.

    Trump’s legal conspiracy (part two)

    In part two of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the resistance he met in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis.

  • A black and white photo of the Prairieland detention center.

    Trump’s legal conspiracy (part one)

    In part one of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the devastating results of the Prairieland case.

  • A composite of photos of Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov with a red filter.

    Try me for treason

    Try Me for Treason; Anti-war Protesters’ Speeches in the Russian Courts  is a film featuring excerpts from four speeches by Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov.

  • A drawing of a family in front of a house.

    Childhood and Marxism

    Kirstin Roberts shows how capitalism renders children as incomplete victims or threats in the context of the capitalist nuclear family–not as beings with personhood and rights. These images are rooted in the capitalist economy and ideologies of the family that buttress it.

  • Photo of a city covered in smog.

    The smoke is at our door

    Julia Corrado reflects on the impacts of climate change and the Canadian wildfires, arguing that environmental disaster requires more than the market-based solutions on offer.

  • A crowd of protestors holding signs in German.

    Building an anti-fascist city

    Aaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.

  • A graphic of a red fest against the silhouettes of trees.

    The promise of workers’ power

    Debates among the International Socialists in 1976–77 offer lessons for socialists today—article by Bill Roberts.

  • A green maze in the background. Lime green book cover of "Escape from Capitalism by Clara E. Mettei" in the foreground.

    Can shattering capitalist economic theory lead to revolution? 

    Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.