New Articles
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Lesser-evilism is not a vote–it’s a strategy
Tempest’s Natalia Tylim explains how pinning our hopes on the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris against Trump is misguided and how the task is to build an infrastructure of resistance to both parties of capitalism and empire and make the case for a socialist horizon.
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Palestine and political repression in Argentina
Tempest’s Anderson Bean and brian bean sat down with Argentine left-wing political leader Alejandro Bodart to discuss his criminal case and the attempt to silence those who defend the Palestinian struggle and silence all criticism of the state of Israel and its policy of apartheid, settler-colonialism, and genocide.
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The French elections and the defeat of the far right
Tempest interviews revolutionary socialist Sylvestre Jaffard about the French elections last month, their political impact on both the right and Left, and the prospects going forward.
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Modi’s electoral setback
Kunal Chattopadhyay cuts through the complexity of Indian politics to assess the significance of the far right’s surprising electoral stumble.
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How Chinese and African organizers came together to protest an oil pipeline
Zhang Mazi explains how Chinese and African activists against an oil pipeline build transnational solidarity against international capitalist exploitation.
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Ten days in Bangladesh, a report on the uprising
A report on the student uprising in Bangladesh where the government has violently repressed and murdered protestors.
Recent Articles
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Trapped in the Democratic Party
Tempest’s Ashley Smith describes how Joe Biden’s economic program represents “imperialist Keynesianism” designed to rival China, ameliorate domestic social inequalities, and neutralize challenges from both the Left and the Trumpian right. The Left must build an alternative.
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Are the Teamsters going red-hunting?
Joe Allen highlights the barely-concealed red-baiting in a recent defense of the UPS Tentative Agreement from a Teamster National Bargaining Committee member.
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War is hell
Sam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.
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The politics of degrowth
Degrowth identifies and critiques growth as fundamental to the capitalist system. Growth enriches property owners and the wealthy, leaving the rest of humanity behind with devastating environmental consequences. Tempest member Paul Fleckenstein interviews Gareth Dale on the politics of degrowth and the critique of the ideology of growth in capitalist society.
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Get ready for a fiery fall
Tempest’s Dana Cloud surveys the year’s labor struggles in higher education and concludes that the moment may be right for another surge.
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Bring us your huddled masses…we got something for ‘em
Aaron Amaral reports on one of the latest of two hundred sites in New York City where newly arriving asylum seekers are being temporarily warehoused, and the contradictory community response.
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Perspectives for socialists today
In this talk delivered in June 2023 at the Tempest NYC Marxism day school, Natalia Tylim explains the importance of revolutionary organization and suggests directions for Tempest today. This is the second in an ongoing series of articles from our regional Marxism schools that took place earlier this summer. It has been lightly edited for…
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”Indigenous communities are leading the struggle in Jujuy”
This summer, the province of Jujuy in Argentina exploded in protest against constitutional reforms with the indigenous communities at the forefront. The backdrop to this conflict is an anti-imperialist fight for control of the country’s resources. Warren Montag, Jimena Vergara, and Joseph Serrano interview Argentinian socialist activist and professor Gastón Remy.
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Why don’t they just negotiate?
In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman observes the limits of pacifism while children die and catastrophe looms.