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  • Public sector union struggles in NYC

    Public sector power: Building rank & file organization under Mayor Eric Adams

    A Tempest (NYC) public event on union struggles in the City’s public sector.

  • UK workers strike back

    UK workers strike back

    Daniel Randall reports on the strike wave in Britain and analyzes the dynamics and lessons from the biggest labor upsurge in a generation.

  • A Turkish flag flies over a waste dump, on a red background

    Neocolonial wastelands

    Daniel Johnson reports on the current situation following a 2021 investigation by Greenpeace that revealed how European countries, led by the U.K., Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have shipped millions of tons of waste to Turkey.

  • Three young people are behind bars.

    To remember is to fight!

    Tempest shares the call of the Russian Socialist Movement for solidarity with Russian anti-war and anti-fascist activists.

  • A large distinctive orange fish swims in a school of other fish.

    Class independence and the broad parties

    Tempest’s Andrew Sernatinger responds to a debate with Left Voice on how revolutionary socialists should relate to broad parties.

  • An abstract landscape of greens and blues, a river bisecting fields and town, figures on boat and under water say "revolt" in text bubbles all over the image.

    The Denmark Vesey rebellion (part 1)

    Tempest member David Whitehouse examines how Denmark Vesey and his comrades recruited and organized in 1822 for an attempted uprising against slavery in Charleston, South Carolina.

  • High Noon and the Hollywood blacklist

    “Do not forsake me, comrade”

    Hank Kennedy revisits the Hollywood classic High Noon.

  • colorful abstract of missiles aimed in different directions

    The contradictions of internationalism from above

    Travis S. argues that a more promising road forward for effective confrontation with the U.S. empire lies in disruptive power from below.

  • workers labor strikes 1930s New Deal insurgency

    Worker insurgency and the New Deal

    Kim Moody interrogates Eric Blanc’s account of the relationship between the Democrats and working-class self-activity in the New Deal era.