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  • A solidarity message from Canada on the UAW and auto tariffs

    A powerful statement to the labor movement and auto workers from Bruce Allen, a former president of Unifor Local 199, opposing Trump’s tariff policies. This was read at one of the twin rallies held on April 26, 2025 in Detroit and across the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario. 

  • A crowd of people waving flags of the country of Georgia, with a paintstroke-filter effect.

    The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Sopho Verdzueli, who are all members of a new Left organization in the country of Georgia. In the midst of high levels of struggle, including one of largest and most sustained mass protests in their country’s history, socialists in Georgia have come together to form…

  • Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender

    Sean K. Isaacs reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

  • Real freedom means having no fear

    Public defender Pauloma Martinez delivers a May Day call to action at the Queens Criminal Courthouse.

  • A crowd of people hold a long banner saying "Stoppt Die Afd!"

    Rebuilding the left as Germany turns right

    In an interview, Martin Haller, the Chief Editor of marx21.de, explains the state of politics in Germany which has simultaneously witnessed: a large rise in support for the far right Alternative for Germany; a new right-led government shattering taboos and preparing to re-arm Germany; and the resurgence of Germany’s Left party (Die Linke).

  • Nationalism, workers’ power, and the myth of auto tariffs

    Andy Sernatinger argues that Shawn Fain and the UAW’s pro-tariff stance misses the real threats to autoworkers and the role the union can play in resisting these threats.

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  • A headshot of George Galloway with a dark red tint over it.

    Gruesome George Galloway and the Paris Olympics

    Hank Kennedy writes on the transphobia of once-prominent British leftist, George Galloway.

  • Rebuilding the Palestine Solidarity Movement

    Brian McDougall on behalf of the Tempest Collective Palestine Solidarity Working Group reflects on debates over strategy and tactics within the Palestine Solidarity Movement.

  • Making sense of Venezuela’s presidential elections

    Tempest’s Anderson Bean interviews Venezuelan socialist Gustavo Martinez from Marea Socialista about the July 28, 2024 elections.

  • Join Tempest at the Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago!

    Annabelle Guptill and  Natalia Tylim argue for the importance of the upcoming Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago.

  • U.S. politics today

    Ashley Smith discusses the U.S. presidential election and the limitations of lesser-evilism.

  • 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.