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  • 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

  • Get off Twitter and get into the (online) streets

    With the Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 set to expire next month, Mary Jirmanus Saba and Zoey Thill, members of the People’s CDC, write about the role Twitter has played during the pandemic among public health and disability justice activists, and they argue in this piece for moving beyond the platform’s limitations to reclaim the…

  • A French spring

    Tempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard regarding the mass uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.

  • Intersectional organizing wall-to-wall at Rutgers

    Tempest member Dana Cloud spoke to Rutgers professor and AAUP-AFT leader Deepa Kumar about how the union united faculty and graduate students across academic ranks in a strike that brought the administration to the bargaining table and won major gains. This strike is a signal moment in the higher education labor movement.

  • “We shut this place down because everybody walked out”

    Tempest member Mel Bienenfeld interviewed with Rutgers workers Hank Kalet and Sebastian Leon about their historic strike, its methods, and its gains.

  • Sudanese appeal for solidarity

    In recognition of the urgency of the situation in Sudan and in internationalist solidarity, Tempest reprints two items published by the MENA Solidarity Network.

  • The far right today

    Hard-right politicians and fascist street gangs pose growing threats to workers and the oppressed, argues Charlie Post, but they aren’t the same thing, and the Left needs different tactics to combat each one.

  • Justice for Joe Evica!

    Ben Ratliffe reports on the firing of OPEIU Local 39 Chief Steward Joe Evica in retaliation for union activity during an ongoing contract fight with CUNA Mutual Group.

  • “Trans bans” and “groomer panic”

    Dean O’Possum situates the recent wave of anti-trans attacks in the context of a broader pattern of moral panics whipping up right-wing forces against trans people and the Left more broadly.

  • Future on Fire

    Tempest members Ricardo Gabriel and Nevena Pilipović-Wenglerinterviewed David Camfield about his newest book, Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.