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  • Photo of an empty polling center, with a dark orange and blue filter.

    Not showing up for Harris

    With a focus on the supposed shift toward Trump in New York City, BC Hamilton argues that the real story of the election was a lack of motivation to vote for status-quo politics.

  • A red silhouette of Donald Trump on the left points a finger towards a blue silhouette of Kamala Harris speaking on the right. Between them is a picture of a figure in a top hat standing on top of a pyramid of tanks and other weaponry, being held up by and crushing masses off people underneath. Purple background.

    Trump vs Harris: how did the U.S.A. get here? 

    David Camfield interviews Tempest’s Aaron Amaral about the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the development of the two-party system, and the history and possibility of mass challenges from below for an episode of podcast Victor’s Children. What follows is a transcript of that interview, edited for length and clarity.

  • A red, paintbrush-effect-filtered photo of Paul Foot's face looking off into the distance to the right.

    A review of Paul Foot: A Life in Politics

    Bill Roberts reviews the new biography Paul Foot: A Life in Politics.

  • An all-purple, close-up illustration of a candle flame.

    Re-opening the question of Jewish Liberation

    The new book on fighting antisemitism by Ben Lorber and Shane Burley could not have come at a better time, writes Naomi Bennet.

  • A compilation of photos, all overlaid with a red filter. From top left, clockwise: photo of a person being tortured at Abu Ghraib, people outside the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, a protest in Ferguson, and of a medical rescue in Gaza.

    When the circus leaves town

    The Tempest National Committee argues that while there is little to nothing that the socialist movement can do now to challenge the right-wing visions on offer in the 2024 U.S. elections, a serious reckoning with how we got here and the post-election tasks of the Left is critical to raising our collective horizons beyond the…

  • A photo of Donald Trump on the left and of Vladimir Lenin on the right, all overlaid with a yellow tint.

    The logic of Trump vs. the logic of Lenin

    Paul LeBlanc argues that socialists must adapt Leninism to the current moment to face Trumpism’s political effectiveness.

Recent Articles

  • Academics protest Gaza genocide, face a clampdown on academic freedom

    Tempest member Dana Cloud reports on the breakout of Palestine solidarity in an unexpected space–the annual convention of the National Communication Association.

  • Challenging Raytheon’s complicity with Israeli Genocide

    Tempest members and other activists report on two actions in solidarity with Palestine and targeting Raytheon for supplying military equipment–including the “Iron Dome” system–to Israel.

  • Pat Robertson: Supervillain

    Tempest member Hank Kennedy looks back at the X-Men comic God Loves, Man Kills, which inspired a surprising fight with the famed televangelist Pat Robertson who passed away earlier this year.

  • DSA after the 2023 convention

    The window for revolutionaries in the DSA is still open, if “open” means the opportunity to work with other socialists in the unions and movements, to win a layer of activists to revolutionary politics, and to advance the projects of left and revolutionary regroupment, argue Tempest members Giselle Gerolami, Ron Lare, and Peter Solenberger.

  • CUNY for Palestine

    Two statements by people affiliated with the City University of New York and related colleges in support of the Palestinian people.

  • A week of solidarity with Palestine

    Tempest members David Whitehouse and Paul Fleckenstein attended significant demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians seeking an end to Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.

  • Labor for Palestine

    The organization Labor for Palestine put out a call on October 24 for unionists in the United States to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza. Here is their call and a model resolution to use in your union.

  • Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions Statement

    This statement by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions appeared originally on October 16. We republish it here with the response from U.S. trade unionists in solidarity with Palestine.

  • Support Palestinians when they fight

    Naomi Bennet takes a critical look at the Left’s responses to Palestinian resistance.