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  • Global crises and global revolts

    In this talk delivered last September at the Socialism Conference, Tempest member Shireen Akram-Boshar describes how multiple global crises and revolts signal rising popular rage against the neoliberal capitalist order. Because neoliberalism has eviscerated resources for care and social reproduction, feminist insurgency is especially important.

  • Solidarity against Anti-Palestinian hate crimes

    Paul Fleckenstein interviews Wafic Faour and Ashley Smith, two organizers with the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation.

  • The Legacy of October 7

    Mel Beinenfeld assesses the Hamas attack of October 7 and its consequences.

  • Palestine 101

    A Tempest Collective event last month featured Tempest members brian bean, Sherry Wolf, and Shireen Akram-Boshar discussing “75 years of colonialism, imperialism, and resistance” in Palestine.

  • Report from the West Bank

    Najla K. and brian bean report on the state of resistance in the West Bank after October 7.

  • Who should run hospitals?

    Tempest’s Sam Friedman reports on conversations with striking nurses at RWJBarnabas, who are drawing the conclusion that health care workers, not corporations, should run our hospitals.

  • In defense of school busing

    This fall, PBS released a feature-length documentary titled The Busing Battleground. On the occasion of the documentary release, Tempest Magazine is reprinting this article and updated introduction, originally published with Jacobin Magazine.

  • A response to Jonah ben Avraham’s “Support Palestinians when they fight…”

    Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom respond critically to a recent article by Jonah Ben Avraham.

  • Political economy of passing

    In recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance and Transgender Awareness Week, Eric Maroney meditates on what it means to be Black and transgender in white-supremacist, capitalist society. In spite of carceral logics and practices alongside intimately felt gender discipline, Maroney finds reason for hope in queer and abolitionist kinship.