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  • Within and without?

    BC Hamilton explains that Zohran Mamdani’s bid for mayor represents the ongoing battle and committed political tactics of the DSA’s inside-out approach. This is the playbook that Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Mamdani have stuck with: democratic socialists who run as Democrats and, when they win, continue to operate within the Democratic Party, forming a left wing…

  • Strategies of resistance 

    A panel discussion on the Trump attacks, the beginnings to the organized mass response, and the strategic paths open to the resistance. 

  • A painting of three people sitting face to face over a table, looking down at a book.

    Trump and the Billionaires

    DK Renton responds to Mel Bienenfeld, raising questions about how to understand the second Trump administration and its relationship to the capitalist class. 

  • A drawing of a book made to look like a matchbook. The cover of the book has the US flag on it, and the matches are on fire.

    Targeted scholars, targeted institutions

    A Tempest roundtable of scholars and activists on the federal and state-level assaults on higher education and strategies of fighting back.

  • We need to do this together

    Tempest member David Whitehouse discusses the resistance to Trump, the arrival of a constitutional crisis, and the need for independent, member-driven Left organizations to protect working people and the oppressed.

  • A person stands at the end of an aisle of warehouse shelves. Photo has a pink toned filter over it.

    Lessons from the Quebec Amazon union campaign

    Amazon’s shutdown of its entire operation in Montreal is a historic moment for capital’s assault on workers and their ability to organize for dignity. The shocking and abrupt move needs to be seen within a broader context, writes Mostafa Henaway.

Recent Articles

  • Lesser-evilism is not a vote–it’s a strategy

    Tempest’s Natalia Tylim explains how pinning our hopes on the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris against Trump is misguided and how the task is to build an infrastructure of resistance to both parties of capitalism and empire and make the case for a socialist horizon.

  • Palestine and political repression in Argentina

    Tempest’s Anderson Bean and brian bean sat down with Argentine left-wing political leader Alejandro Bodart to discuss his criminal case and the attempt to silence those who defend the Palestinian struggle and silence all criticism of the state of Israel and its policy of apartheid, settler-colonialism, and genocide.

  • The French elections and the defeat of the far right

    Tempest interviews revolutionary socialist Sylvestre Jaffard about the French elections last month, their political impact on both the right and Left, and the prospects going forward.

  • Modi’s electoral setback

    Kunal Chattopadhyay cuts through the complexity of Indian politics to assess the significance of the far right’s surprising electoral stumble.

  • How Chinese and African organizers came together to protest an oil pipeline

    Zhang Mazi explains how Chinese and African activists against an oil pipeline build transnational solidarity against international capitalist exploitation.

  • Ten days in Bangladesh, a report on the uprising

    A report on the student uprising in Bangladesh where the government has violently repressed and murdered protestors.

  • Luxemburg on the Russian Revolution

    Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc, editors of Volume 5 of Verso’s Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, reply to John Marot’s Tempest article based on the book.

  • Long COVID and social struggle

    When they get noticed, people with Long COVID are often viewed as helpless victims—but Sara Johnson and Sam Friedman show how long haulers have been getting organized on their own behalf.

  • Solidarity with Argentine Palestine activists

    Tempest encourages its readers to sign the solidarity petition in support of Alejandro Bodart, a leader of the International Socialist League in Argentina, facing criminal prosecution as a result of his Palestine activism.