New Articles

  • Criticisms and conditions in support for Palestinian resistance

    Tom Dale responds to the Tempest editorial “Toward a free Palestine” and argues for clarifying what socialists mean by “unconditional but critical support” for national liberation struggles.

  • “People have to act collectively”

    Leading historian of McCarthyism Ellen Schrecker explains that McCarthyism was not about one person. And what’s happening today within our society, including the erosion of democratic practices and values, is not just about Donald Trump.

  • Weathering the storm

    Kirstin Roberts and Natalia Tylim report of the 2024 Tempest convention held in Chicago over the long weekend of February 17-19.

  • Comrades, community, and commitment

    Tempest member Aileen Cerrillos reflects on their experience organizing in university and NGO-modeled spaces and their decision to join the Tempest Collective project.

  • “The John Brown way” part 2

    David Whitehouse recounts the battles, up through the Harpers’ Ferry revolt, of anti-slavery militant John Brown, a period that influenced the emergence of the United States Left.

  • 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 second part of a two-part interview. Part one can be read here.

Recent Articles

  • 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.

  • 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.