New Articles

  • The United States’ home-grown fascist

    Tempest member Hank Kennedy surveys the life and career of Catholic priest Charles Coughlin who was commonly known as Father Coughlin, a prominent and influential Nazi sympathizer who promoted antisemitic and pro-fascist views.

  • Once More on Hamas

    As part of a continuing exchange on October 7, the Palestinian resistance, and the posture of the Left towards Hamas, Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom reply here to Sean Larson. La Botz and Shalom had previously submitted a response to an article by Jonah ben Avraham to which Larson, in turn, responded.

  • Response to Camfield and Post on “What would it take to win in Palestine?”

    Reader Neil Rogall raises questions about the way forward for Palestine.

  • We are fighting for Palestinian liberation

    Tempest member Denée Jackson draws connections among Jewish, Black, and Palestinian experience and liberation, arguing for solidarity across multiple marginalized identities.

  • Anti-racist rebellion and the Left

    Ben Rosenfield reviews the book The George Floyd Uprising edited by Vortex Group.

  • Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    Tempest member Sam Friedman reviews Paul Le Blanc’s book Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine published by Resistance Books.

Recent Articles

  • A help wanted sign in red on a green background

    This recession is an ambush

    Portland socialist Shamus Cooke has warned that the ruling class is conjuring up a recession to wipe out recent workers’ gains. Here he writes that we need a national response that combines action from below with steps toward workers’ political independence.

  • Making sense of the Ukraine war

    Eric Draitser critically reviews War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies, which, he argues, sees the entirety of the conflict through the lens of U.S.-NATO aggression without making even a perfunctory attempt to engage with the many other critical aspects of the war.

  • Stills of a video of the police shooting of an Oklahoma meatpacking worker at Seaboard Foods.

    Cop murder on the production line

    Paul KD reports on the police murder of 26-year-old Sudanese immigrant Chiewelthap Mariar on the floor of the Oklahoma meatpacking plant where he was working.

  • international days of protest against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.

    Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

    Tempest Collective member, Ashley Smith, interviews Ivan Ovsyannikov, a Russian journalist, leftist activist, and trade union organizer on the international days of protest on January 19 through 24, 2023  called against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.

  • Nzoy, a young Black man, looks contemplative in this portrait. He wears a ball cap. The image is purple on a green background.

    Racism has no borders

    On August 30, 2021, Roger Wilhelm, a 37-year-old Black man–known to friends and family as “Nzoy”–was killed by police in Morges, Switzerland. Tempest members William Gifis and Haley Pessin talked to Evelyn Wilhelm, who is Nzoy’s sister and runs the Justice 4 Nzoy Switzerland campaign to win justice for her brother.

  • Report from the Front: Rally in Pilsen

    Joe Allen reports on a tax-Amazon rally in his Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen and nearby Little Village.

  • Cartoonish arms and hands holding sledgehammers and roses smash a police station and a military facility.

    Revolution means smashing the state

    Any responsible approach to overcoming capitalism, argues brian bean, must grapple with the need to dismantle the capitalist state and replace it with our own democratic institutions from below.

  • A cartoon image sketch of workers carrying picket signs.

    Giving credit to the wrong class

    Did workers “pivot” toward striking for union recognition because of New Deal legislation, as Eric Blanc claims? Kim Moody looks at what really drove the labor upsurge of the early 1930s.

  • Iraqi protesters fly the Iraqi flag.

    The legacy of occupation and the fight for a democratic Iraq

    brian bean interviews Workers Against Sectarianism on the struggle against sectarian politics in Iraq.