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    After decades, an insurgency falters

    The strongest force on the Philippine Left is faltering under long-term attrition. Alex de Jong explains the decline.

  • For an end to last-gasp liberalism

    Sarang Narasimhaiah calls for a break with the deeply ingrained but unacknowledged principles and protocols of liberalism and the organization of an independent left alternative.

  • Grief, mourning, and solidarity

    Sarah Jaffe discusses grief, Palestine, and the pandemic in an interview about her recent book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

  • Navigating the storm, rebuilding the fightback

    Help support the Tempest Collective and Tempestmag.org by donating to our fundraiser.

  • Santa Socialism

    John Lang explores what it means to engage in wishful thinking about political change.

  • Rosa Luxemburg’s war against cynicism

    Sean Larson reviews the newest volume in The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.

Recent Articles

  • Taiwan’s 2024 presidential elections

    Brian Hioe and Wen Liu analyze the recent national elections in Taiwan and their significance for domestic politics  and the country’s relationship with China.

  • Bolshevism Mystified

    In a new book, Russia scholar Lars Lih sees a basic continuity in Bolshevism from 1903 to Stalin. John Marot argues that party history was marked instead by major turns—first toward socialist revolution and later a break away from it.

  • The war in Ukraine

    Oleksandr Kyselov writes about what solidarity looks like for the international Left with the Ukrainian people and the Ukraine Left in their resistance against Russian imperialism.

  • From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime

    On November 2, 2023, Haymarket Books and the Ukraine Solidarity Network hosted a forum on the connection between the occupations and wars in Ukraine and Palestine facilitated by Ashley Smith and featuring Dana El-Kurd, Daria Saburova, Ramah Kudaimi and Joseph Daher.

  • Lenin: Catastrophe and revolution

    Paul Le Blanc in conversation with Promise Li and Cliff Connolly about the legacy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks explored through Leblanc’s recent book Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution.

  • Perspectives on Russian imperialism

    Ilya Budraitskis offers an update and perspective on the current political situation in Russia and its ongoing imperialist war in Ukraine.

  • The United States’ home-grown fascist

    Tempest member Hank Kennedy surveys the life and career of Catholic priest Charles Coughlin who was commonly known as Father Coughlin, a prominent and influential Nazi sympathizer who promoted antisemitic and pro-fascist views.

  • Once More on Hamas

    As part of a continuing exchange on October 7, the Palestinian resistance, and the posture of the Left towards Hamas, Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom reply here to Sean Larson. La Botz and Shalom had previously submitted a response to an article by Jonah ben Avraham to which Larson, in turn, responded.

  • Response to Camfield and Post on “What would it take to win in Palestine?”

    Reader Neil Rogall raises questions about the way forward for Palestine.