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  • What’s next for the Syrian revolution?

    Video from a Tempest Collective sponsored roundtable discussion held earlier this month on the Syrian revolution.

  • Campus policing today

    University of Texas professor Karma Chávez describes a new era of campus collaboration with police.

  • A person holds a sign written in Russian.

    Imperial poison in Russian politics

    As we approach the three year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleg Shein, a Russian historian, and a former MP in the Russian State Duma, assesses the impact on Russian politics both now and for its future. 

  • After the South Korean coup attempt

    Hong Myungkyo explains the reason why martial law was rescinded was because of the citizens’ resistance to it, and the reason why state violence under martial law was not implemented as Yoon had hoped was because there remains, in South Korean society generally, a living memory of recent and successful democratic struggles, a history of…

  • Women’s liberation and the fight against the Trump regime

    Linda Loew replies to the Tempest editorial from January 2025 highlighting the misogynistic attacks on women and bodily autonomy and the centrality of these struggles to an anti-capitalist resistance to the Trump regime.

  • Trump seizes power in D.C.

    Unlike eight years ago, there is little protest against Trump, who seems all-powerful. But his administration will be prevented from establishing stable rule by its deep internal divisions, policies that will exacerbate not solve the country’s problems, and its tendency to overreach and impose deeply unpopular policies. All of this will inevitably trigger resistance.

Recent Articles

  • Southern autoworkers on the rise

    Workers at six Daimler Truck plants in the South were set to strike when Joel Sronce interviewed UAW members and their supporters in North Carolina.

  • The bipartisan attack on immigrants

    Dana Cloud sat down with immigration justice activist Aly Wane to discuss how Democrats and Republicans, despite differences in rhetoric, have the same border agenda.

  • Freedom for Cuban political prisoners

    A press release from the FIT-U on a recent meeting between deputies and leaders of the FIT-U and the Cuban Ambassador to Argentina.

  • Erdoğan’s colossal defeat in Turkey — and a new hope

    Hakan Yilmaz reports on the electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP) in last month’s Turkish municipal elections and argues that the Left’s victory hints at a completely new balance of forces in which movements from below can be revived.

  • How should socialists think about political tradition?

    Tempest’s David Camfield reviews the trove of theoretical resources available to us as we think about what traditions should inform our work.

  • Confronting the backlash

    In this transcript of a session at Socialism 2023, Tempest’s Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper discuss how socialists should challenge the backlash against the anti-racist uprising of the 2020s and argue that it takes a combined anti-racism and anti-capitalism to mount the necessary resistance.

  • Black Lives Matter and Palestine

    A transcript of Black Lives Matter and Palestine Solidarity Teach-In held in Seattle, Washington, February 1, 2024.

  • DSA’s budget crisis has been a long time coming

    Andy Sernatinger assesses the severe budget crisis that has surfaced within the  Democratic Socialists of America.

  • Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all Russian anti-war prisoners

    The case of Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky, in prison for opposing the war on Ukraine, may be up for appeal in early May. Tempest supports an urgent campaign for his release.