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  • California State faculty mobilize for a no vote

    Dana Cloud and Gary Holloway interviewed four activists in the California Faculty Association who are urging union members to vote down a bad tentative agreement reached after just one day of a planned five-day strike across the 23-campus system.

  • Toward a free Palestine

    The current struggle for Palestinian liberation marks a turning point in world politics, argues this Tempest Collective editorial.

  • Is a new political cycle opening in Chile?

    Franck Gaudichaud and Pablo Abufom report on a second constitutional referendum held this past December in Chile to replace the Pinochet-era constitution for the country. This time around Chilien voters rejected a proposed right-wing constitution after the defeat of a more progressive constitution in a 2022 referendum.

  • Argentina general strike

    Sergio García reports from the massive general strike of January 24, 2024 against the radical neoliberal austerity measures being proposed by the new far-right government of Javier Milei.

  • What it means to say Trump will govern like a fascist

    David Renton argues the answer to Trump’s potential election is not to minimize the risk posed by Trump but to insist that our organizing is the only protection against the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and worldwide.

  • Vermonters’ solidarity with Palestine

    A new statewide coalition, Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, has formed with eight sponsoring groups.

Recent Articles

  • Two photos show different sets of people standing in front of the same vehicle, a silver four by four pickup vehicle. The vehicle has a flag laid on top of its front hood that says “GMB. WORKING TOGETHER.” The left image shows a person wearing a t-shirt that says ‘UKRAINIAN’ holding the left corner of a Ukrainian flag that has a handwritten message written on the flag’s yellow stripe. The message’s lettering are too faint to discern specific words. Another person holds the right corner of the flag. The right image captures the same person wearing the shirt that says ‘UKRAINIAN’ with two people wearing red shirts with the British National Union of Mineworkers logo. One of them holds up a piece of fabric with text that says ‘SUPPORT UKRAINE.’ Above the text is the NUM logo and below is the Ukrainian flag.

    Ukraine, Palestine, and internationalism

    Ashley Smith of the Tempest Collective interviews Vladyslav Starodubstev on the one-year anniversary of the war about the struggle for internationalist solidarity in Ukraine and Palestine.

  • Two images overlap with one another. The left image is a vintage photo of Mussolini, dressed in army ware, inspecting the front of the Italian Saar troops, composed of grenadiers and carabinieri, in Rome on December 19, 1934. On the right, a photo of a press conference of multiple people dressed in suits. At the forefront stands Giorgia Meloni, speaking into a microphone of a press conference stand with an inscription saying ‘Presidenza Della Repubblica - Quirinale.’"

    Fascism in Italy today

    Last September a fascist party descended from Mussolini’s movement won election in Italy—a milestone in the advance of the far right internationally. Thomas Hummel examines the Italian situation and argues that united struggle can turn the tide.

  • In the top half of the photo, a large and concentrated amount of white apartment buildings engulf the top half of a tall and wide hill in the photo’s view. Part of the large hill below the buildings is undeveloped and rocky land. In the forefront, and lower half of the photo, a smaller hill is majority undeveloped land, composed of brownish-yellowish rocky terrain with a bit of grass and speckled with a couple of one to three floor buildings. It looks like there are layers in the hill which are most likely roads paved into the hillside. Some trees speckle the undeveloped parts of both hills.

    Gone is the law of the universe, scattered by frivolous fate

    Recent Israeli attacks in the West Bank follow a year of military escalation. Richard Seymour finds the roots of this surge in Palestinian resistance and Israeli class politics.

  • From below and to the left

    These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.

  • Russian words ‘цинк наш!’ graffitied on a white-painted outdoor wall about 12 ft tall. The letters are capitalized and are layered over graffitied images of coffins. There is a small graffiti signature of ‘Z.’ The forefront ground is dirt with some grass. The background shows a car, an apartment building and trees.

    We Say: War on War!

    A statement by the Émigré Branch of the Russian Socialist Movement on the anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

  • A collage in blue on red of an ambulance and nurses holding picket signs announcing that they are on strike.

    How NYC nurses won their strike

    Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld shares an account by NYSNA member Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez of how nurses organized themselves and their community ahead of the victorious NYC nurses strike.

  • An illustration of five nurses protesting outside and holding up various signs. The signs are cropped photos of some of the signs that NNU nurses held up during the January rallies. One sign reads: National Nurses Organizing Committee: SAFE STAFFING SAVES LIVES. Another reads: STAFF UP! FOR SAFE CARE. END CRISIS NOW. Another reads: PATIENT HEALTH BEFORE KAISER WEALTH. The last reads: UNSAFE STAFFING = INCREASED VIOLENCE. The illustration’s colors reflect the two main reddish and maroon colors of the NNU logo.

    You don’t want your nurse to be overworked

    Tempest member Snehal Shingavi spoke to four nurses in Texas who participated in rallies last month to protest understaffing at a number of major hospitals.

  • Nazi symbolism superimposed upon an image of the U.S.Capitol.

    DC’s friends of fascism

    Hank Kennedy uncovers a domestic history of fascist supporters in the halls of powers and finds a line of continuity and important comparisons to this generation of Washington D.C. ultra-reactionaries.

  • blurred images of tents and protest signs on behalf of non-tenure-track faculty

    Faculty unionization and the legacy of Blackburn:

    Howard University faculty members Sean Pears and Jacob Sloan describe how student militancy fueled struggle on the part of non-tenure-track faculty.