New Articles

  • Erdoğan’s colossal defeat in Turkey — and a new hope

    Hakan Yilmaz reports on the electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP) in last month’s Turkish municipal elections and argues that the Left’s victory hints at a completely new balance of forces in which movements from below can be revived.

  • How should socialists think about political tradition?

    Tempest’s David Camfield reviews the trove of theoretical resources available to us as we think about what traditions should inform our work.

  • Confronting the backlash

    In this transcript of a session at Socialism 2023, Tempest’s Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper discuss how socialists should challenge the backlash against the anti-racist uprising of the 2020s and argue that it takes a combined anti-racism and anti-capitalism to mount the necessary resistance.

  • Black Lives Matter and Palestine

    A transcript of Black Lives Matter and Palestine Solidarity Teach-In held in Seattle, Washington, February 1, 2024.

  • DSA’s budget crisis has been a long time coming

    Andy Sernatinger assesses the severe budget crisis that has surfaced within the  Democratic Socialists of America.

  • Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all Russian anti-war prisoners

    The case of Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky, in prison for opposing the war on Ukraine, may be up for appeal in early May. Tempest supports an urgent campaign for his release.

Recent Articles

  • Making sense of Chicago’s election

    Joe Allen sets the Chicago mayoral election in historical context and argues that the choice on offer, however stark, also reflects the political limits of the strength of the Left and our (social and trade union) movements.

  • The life and politics of Walter Rodney

    Tempest’s Anyanwu L. reviews A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney by Chinedu Chukwudinma.

  • A protester in front of a building stands behind others. They hold a sign reading "Drag Sets Our Imagination Free."

    Jackson Heights defends Drag Story Hour NYC!

    Tempest members Reuben Abitbol, Thomas Hummel, and Haley Pessin report on a successful campaign action last month in defense of Drag Story Hour NYC against far-right protesters.

  • Three signs in blue on white read UAW on strike in front of a sign reading MADE IN THE [American flag}.

    North Carolina’s factory boom

    National policy is spurring new investment in domestic factories, and North Carolina is one center of the boom. David Leon argues that the growth in factory jobs can enable new organizing and workers’ struggle—and that socialists have a key role to play.

  • Two illustrations sit side-by-side. The left illustration shows a punctured pipeline, with oil spilling out and covering grassy land and plants. Two workers' helmets float at the edges of the oil spill. Smoke arises from three oil frackers lining the horizon. In one of the smoke clouds, it reads ‘CAPITALISM.’ And in the oil spill, it reads ‘HURTS THE WORKER. HURTS THE PLANET.’ The right illustration shows a collage of imagery representing things harming the world with things that could help the world. This includes a sunflower plant destroying a bomb, plants growing out of a police car, mushrooms growing out of a spilled bucket of toxic liquid, a person holding a sword and wearing a t-shirt that says DEMILITARIZE.

    Anti-lamentation

    In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.

  • Health care concessions in the NYC public sector?

    Robert Cuffy and Peter Allen-Lamphere argue that the heralded citywide contract is anything but a victory for New York City public sector workers.

  • 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.