New Articles

  • Aaron’s Sacrifice

    Rory Fanning reflects on the experience and meaning of Aaron Bushnell standing up (and dying) for Palestine.

  • Académicxs con Palestina is rising from Mexico City

    Tempest member Joel Sronce reports on the emergence of a new collective in Mexico, Académicxs con Palestina contra el Genocidio.

  • Stand against genocide and imperialism, from Palestine to Ukraine

    Statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network on the Second Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

  • Sentenced to a life of poor health

    Slim Philomath explains why attempts to reform health care in U.S. prisons have been inadequate to the task, which requires an interrogation of the entire carceral system.

  • “The John Brown way” (part 1)

    David Whitehouse tells a different story about John Brown, who led the 1859 raid against slavery in what was then Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. This article is Part One of Two.

  • Perspectives for socialists in 2024

    The Tempest Collective Editorial Board recently sat down with David McNally to discuss current geopolitical dynamics, economic fault lines, and labor struggles—and perspectives for socialists in 2024. This is the first part of a two-part interview.

Recent Articles

  • Resisting the backlash

    A Tempest Collective event on Sunday, March 26 at 2 pm EDT.

  • Two comic book covers featuring the superhero Marshal Law

    Remembering Marshal Law

    Tempest’s Hank Kennedy pays tribute to the radical comic book artist Kevin O’Neill, who died last November.

  • Princeton graduate workers are fighting like tigers for a union

    Tempest member Promise Li reports on the recently announced union card campaign launched last month by PGSU at Princeton University.

  • A protester on a yellow background stands in a field holding a sign reading DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST.

    They gave their life to Stop Cop City

    Tempest member Leandro Herrera speaks with an Atlanta Forest defender about Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (aka Tortuguita), a beloved activist part of the Stop Cop City campaign who was murdered by police in January.

  • On the right, in yellow on a dark green background, cafeteria workers dish out food. On the left, the tower at Dartmouth is behind a protest sign reading "Living Staff, Living Wage."

    Victory for the Dartmouth student workers

    Tempest member Nancy Welch interviews Grace Hillery, a sophomore and member of the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth, on their recent union contract victory for student workers.

  • Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century

    Panelists on Tempest’s Building the Revolutionary Left Today panel present the questions and takeaways from their experiences in the revolutionary Left.

  • Hal Draper’s America as Overlord

    Samuel Farber provides the foreword in the Haymarket-published book America as Overlord, a collection of essays written by Hal Draper in the 1950s and 1960s on the role of U.S. imperialism from World War II to the Vietnam War.

  • An aerial image of Burlington Vermont with an ink drawing of a police car following a Black Lives Matter March.

    Fund services, not police and prisons!

    A panel of Vermont activists spoke out on police, prisons, and capitalism in late January. Speakers took up the need to fund social services and defund police and prisons. The event highlighted a specific reform—community control of police—that is on the local ballot in Burlington on March 7.

  • A crowd of students marches carrying a banner reading "ISU works because we do."

    Revolutionary graduate worker unionism

    Graduate worker Steven Lazaroff considers what it means to be a revolutionary in graduate student unions on the basis of his experience at Illinois State University, where the ISU Graduate Workers Union won a significant victory.