New Articles

  • Aaron’s Sacrifice

    Rory Fanning reflects on the experience and meaning of Aaron Bushnell standing up (and dying) for Palestine.

  • Académicxs con Palestina is rising from Mexico City

    Tempest member Joel Sronce reports on the emergence of a new collective in Mexico, Académicxs con Palestina contra el Genocidio.

  • Stand against genocide and imperialism, from Palestine to Ukraine

    Statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network on the Second Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

  • Sentenced to a life of poor health

    Slim Philomath explains why attempts to reform health care in U.S. prisons have been inadequate to the task, which requires an interrogation of the entire carceral system.

  • “The John Brown way” (part 1)

    David Whitehouse tells a different story about John Brown, who led the 1859 raid against slavery in what was then Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. This article is Part One of Two.

  • 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 first part of a two-part interview.

Recent Articles

  • 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.

  • A large pink fish containing a school of small fish labeled rank and file democracy eats fish representing business and electoral unionism and money on blue-green background.

    Toward a rank-and-file caucus in UCU

    Dan Davison makes the argument for a rank-and-file strategy given the state of the higher education strikes in the United Kingdom and the debates within the University and College Union.

  • People stand witnessing the rubble of a building destroyed by the earthquake.

    The earthquake in Türkiye and Syria

    On Monday, February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (followed by another earthquake of 7.5 magnitude) struck southern Türkiye and northwest Syria in the early hours of the morning. Tempest Collective member Shireen Akram-Boshar explains that this tragedy is fundamentally political, affected by the fault lines of counterrevolution, authoritarianism, racism, and capitalism.

  • A multi-colored collage of signs, many of the signs read "TAs & RAs ON STRIKE!" repeated multiple times in a green background with black text, and others have red signs, some of them read "RESPECT US RESPECT OUR STUDENTS" and others have the message "TEMPLE WORKS BECAUSE WE DO."

    Graduate workers strike at Temple!

    Tempest’s Joel Sronce interviews two striking graduate workers from Temple University.