New Articles

  • Building grocery power

    Paul KD interviews three leaders of the independent New Seasons Labor Union which has organized 11 out of 20 stores in the Portland, Oregon-based natural foods chain New Seasons Market and now represents over 1000 workers.

  • Yale students take over Beinecke (Gaza) Plaza

    Tempest interviews Elisa Miah, a student organizer for Palestine on the campus occupation by Yale students inspired by the Columbia University encampments to demand Yale divest from arms manufacturing.

  • Trump’s danger isn’t that he’s a fascist

    Dan Davison and Sacha Marten argue that Donald Trump is best understood as oscillating in a middle space between conventional Republicans and the fascist right.

  • Bangladeshis march for Gaza

    Ganesh Lal reported briefly on May 4 from Dhaka, Bangladesh and followed up soon after to provide context. Today (May 9), organizers plan to march to the U.S. embassy.

  • 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.

Recent Articles

  • UPS part-time wage cuts

    In this response to Joe Allen’s article On the Brink? The Teamsters and UPS, Dom Belcastro details part-time wage cuts.

  • Reflections on Emily the Criminal

    Samuel Farber reviews the film Emily the Criminal and its portrayal of a sympathetic working-class person forced into a life of crime.

  • One year after Dobbs

    A Tempest Collective event on Sunday, May 28 at 2 pm EDT

  • On The Brink?: The Teamsters and UPS

    Joe Allen discusses whether UPS Teamsters will strike this summer.

  • The Left under Brandon Johnson

    brian bean argues the need for independent organizing and struggle under Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago

  • We demand justice for Jordan Neely

    In an editorial on behalf of the Tempest Collective, Haley Pessin looks at the conditions that led to the murder of Jordan Neely, an unhoused Black man who was choked to death on May 1 while riding the New York City subway.

  • re: notice of rent increase

    In this poem, Michelle Everette explores how it hurts to be poor.

  • Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy

    Naomi Bennet responds to Charlie Post on how to understand the relationship between the electoral far right and fascist forces and what this means for threats to bourgeois democracy and the strategies for the Left.

  • “The Generals’ fight for power is not our fight”

    Shireen Akram-Boshar and brian bean interview Muzna Alhaj, a member and organizer of a Khartoum Resistance Committee, about the escalating armed conflict between rival factions of the ruling junta and its impact on the revolutionary dynamic in Sudan.