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    The economics of U.S. imperialism (part 1)

    Despite mounting corporate debt and a disastrous war on Iran, the U.S. economy is powering ahead—led by the investment boom in AI. G. Stewart explores the resilience of the economy and the contradictions that threaten to undermine it.

  • A crowd of people holding Ukranian flags.

    Ukraine Needs International Solidarity as Russia Escalates Its Aggression

    We need to strengthen global working-class solidarity with the Ukrainian working class and their self-organization during the continued devastation of the war, argues the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) in this republished statement.

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    Workers will fight for their self-interest

    Kim Moody assesses some recent writings and interview by Catalyst editor and podcaster Professor Vivek Chibber on state planning, market socialism and the transition to socialism.

  • Signs on a fence that say "bolition" and "stop the violence"

    In defense of abolition

    As prominent leftists and progressives scramble to walk back their previous commitments to “woke” demands, the Tempest National Committee explains why abolition politics is fundamental to socialism.

  • Book cover with title "Metabolic rifts: capitalism's assault on the earth system by Ian Angus" with an illustration of a rift in the earth between rich people and regular people.

    Confronting the ecological crisis

    Paul Fleckenstein reviews Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism Assault on the Earth System and argues that the book makes an important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to our compounding ecological crisis.

  • A photo of a rubbled building.

    Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis

    Earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela in quick succession on June 24. Gonzalo Gómez speaks to Tempest about the official and popular responses to the quakes.

Recent Articles

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

    Party Time? Setting the record straight

    Giselle Gerolami responds to Charlie Post on the strengths and weaknesses of left organization, including Solidarity, of which she is a member.

  • Put workers and patients first!

    Workers at the University of Vermont Medical Center fight for a fair contract as the possibility of a strike looms.

  • Trump’s ethnonationalist immigration agenda

    Avery Wear argues that Trump’s second-term immigration agenda marks a historical shift from labor management to ethnonationalism, demanding a new left strategy.

  • Image of Rosa Luxemburg

    Revolutionary Futures

    Promise Li delivers a talk at Occidental College on “reform vs. revolution” that describes how Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project.

  • Frustration and anger on Syria’s streets

    Joseph Daher reports on a surge of protest in Syria.

  • Cutout photos of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero smiling at the camera.

    Standing up to MAGA’s war against the people

    The United Left Platform statement on the escalation of state-sponsored murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine by the Trump administration and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

  • A drawing of crowds of yellow, gray, orange, and green hands reaching out to each other.

    Solidarity without exception

    Sam Friedman argues for the connection between the Left’s principled defense of the rights of national self-determination, in places like Iran and Ukraine, with the historic development of capitalism and imperialism and the movements which arose in struggle against them.

  • A crowd of people facing signs written in Persian.

    Iran’s Revolution was not destined to end in clerical rule

    Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that the outcome of the Iranian Revolution was not inevitable. It contained democratic and egalitarian possibilities that were defeated through political struggle rather than cultural destiny.

  • Lady justice holds the scales and lifts her blindfold.

    Two cases, one tradition

    Blanca Missé argues that the legal repression of activists calls for a political response inside the courtroom—linked to organizing on the outside.