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  • Far-right surges, but left surprises, in German elections

    Sean Larson analyses the outcome of last month’s German elections. 

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    The radical roots of harm reduction

    Even the best accounts of the movement for harm reduction leave out the role of Marxists, anarchists, and other radicals. Sam Friedman sets the record straight.

  • So-called axis of resistance  

    Iran has been attempting to achieve a regional balance of power against Israel and the U.S. as well as pursue its own military and economic aims in the region. The regime views any challenge to its influence in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip, whether from below by popular forces or from Israel, other…

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    Trump’s anti-immigrant push 

    Aly Wane predicts what’s coming for immigrants in the Trump era.

  • Each blow against oppression advances us all

    The Tempest National Committee argues that struggles against oppression are an essential part of class struggle and charts a political alternative that rejects the dead-end of class reductionism.

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    Scholasticide at the American Historical Association 

    Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision. 

Recent Articles

  • Palestine solidarity on two Southern California campuses

    While pro-Palestine encampments sprung up at major universities across the United States, Héctor Rivera and Dana Cloud found spirited, inspiring protests on their own campuses, Pasadena City College and California State University, Fullerton.

  • SF educators strike for Palestine

    Alex Schmaus reports on labor actions for Palestine in the Bay Area and one high school that educators shut down on May Day.

  • Palestine and the Arab Revolution

    A panel discussion featuring revolutionaries from around the region talking about the inextricable ties between Palestinian liberation and liberation across the region, and its special relevance in this crucial historic moment.

  • Degrowth and revolutionary socialism

    Tempest’s Paul Fleckenstein reviews Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto and argues that an ecosocialist future depends on mass social and class struggle.

  • The Israel-Iran theater show–a distraction from Gaza genocide 

    Michael Karadjis explains how the recent interchange of missiles between Israel and Iran was an episode of theater distracting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and leaving Israel more powerful.

  • 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.