New Articles
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The Left and U.S. politics today
The International Socialist League interviewed Tempest member Aaron Amaral about the state of U.S. politics today and the role of a radicalizing Left in responding to economic crisis, the presidential elections, the labor movement, and the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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The transformative power of solidarity
A review of Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
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Imperialism and anti-imperialism today
Ashley Smith explores the asymmetric multipolar world order and the challenges it poses for the Left.
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Convergence of labor and Palestine on campus
Interview with two striking grad workers at Dartmouth College, part of GOLD-UE’s newly formed Palestine caucus.
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From student revolt to workers’ power
As California academic workers prepare to strike against repression of pro-Palestine activism, Helen Scott discusses the connection between student struggle and workers’ action.
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Defend the encampments!
Julian Lin reports on the mob assault on UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment and argues that the assailants were fascists—and the movement needs to respond with militant self-defense.
Recent Articles
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On The Brink?: The Teamsters and UPS
Joe Allen discusses whether UPS Teamsters will strike this summer.
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The Left under Brandon Johnson
brian bean argues the need for independent organizing and struggle under Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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Build healthy communities, not prisons
A transcript of a speech last month by Jayna Ahsaf, an organizer with the Vermont chapter of the FreeHer campaign from the abolitionists group the National Council speaking to activists on the need for a long-term campaign to abolish prisons and fund people and healthy communities.
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This is what solidarity looks like!
Alex Schmaus interviews UTLA member Thalía Cataño and SEIU Local 99 member Rosalba Romero— both of whom work at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles—about the successful strike in March.
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May Days
May 1 is International Workers’ Day. In this short essay, Joe Allen recounts the experience of the walking tour at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, where there is a monument to the May 1, 1886 uprising and the bloody confrontation on May 3 between police and workers–and ultimately, the execution of four militants involved in the uprising.
