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  • 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.

  • A photo of Zohran Mamdani addressing a crowd on a microphone, covered with a red filter.

    The Mamdani moment

    While the project of reforming the Democratic Party from within is a strategic non-starter, BC Hamilton cautions socialists against mere dismissal of Zohran Mamdani. Rather, he argues that a sober understanding of the limitations of Mamdani’s electoral strategy of inside-out reform must be married to a proactive campaign of solidaristic organizing.

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  • A red background, with a black silhouette of many fists, tilted rightward, raised into the sky.

    Part One: Resisting authoritarian populism

    Ashley Smith analyzes the Democrats’ failure to defeat Trump and what it means for the Left.

  • A field with a sky in the background with a dark blue and red filter over it.

    What’s next for the Chicago Left? 

    On November 17, 80-90 activists joined Tempest members in Chicago for a vibrant discussion about organizing after the presidential election.

  • A light purple and brown filter over a photo of Trump and Netanyahu standing next to each other.

    On Gaza and the struggle to restrain Trump

    The West’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza has legitimized and encouraged the far right in the West itself, argues British socialist David Renton.

  • A heavily purple and orange filtered photo of the gatehouse of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

    No Laughing Matter

    Tempest member Hank Kennedy discusses the Nazi use of cartoon propaganda and draws parallels to the Zionist attack on Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists today.

  • Two knights on a chess board face each other.

    Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry

    Thomas Hummel interviews Ashley Smith about a new book on China in global capitalism.

  • 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.