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  • California State faculty mobilize for a no vote

    Dana Cloud and Gary Holloway interviewed four activists in the California Faculty Association who are urging union members to vote down a bad tentative agreement reached after just one day of a planned five-day strike across the 23-campus system.

  • Toward a free Palestine

    The current struggle for Palestinian liberation marks a turning point in world politics, argues this Tempest Collective editorial.

  • Is a new political cycle opening in Chile?

    Franck Gaudichaud and Pablo Abufom report on a second constitutional referendum held this past December in Chile to replace the Pinochet-era constitution for the country. This time around Chilien voters rejected a proposed right-wing constitution after the defeat of a more progressive constitution in a 2022 referendum.

  • Argentina general strike

    Sergio García reports from the massive general strike of January 24, 2024 against the radical neoliberal austerity measures being proposed by the new far-right government of Javier Milei.

  • What it means to say Trump will govern like a fascist

    David Renton argues the answer to Trump’s potential election is not to minimize the risk posed by Trump but to insist that our organizing is the only protection against the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and worldwide.

  • Vermonters’ solidarity with Palestine

    A new statewide coalition, Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, has formed with eight sponsoring groups.

Recent Articles

  • A democratic party donkey and a two-horse emblem of the Teamsters Union are in shadow behind the Chicago skyline in a blue on yellow image.

    Building Teamster Power?

    The Teamsters say they are going in a new progressive direction in the U.S. labor movement, yet, Joe Allen explains, there is little evidence of that in the role they are playing in Chicago’s current municipal elections.

  • No arms to Ukraine?

    Nate Moore explains why U.S. based socialists should not be opposing arms to Ukraine despite the inter-imperialist dynamics unleashed by the Russian invasion.

  • a cartoon graphic of a uterus and ovaries in blue with signs reading abortion is healthcare march.

    “Bigger than Roe”

    Madison-area reproductive justice organizers Tessa E. and Dayna Long report on the Bigger Than Roe March and Rally in Madison, Wisconsin on January 22.

  • Class struggle today

    A Tempest Collective event this Sunday, February 12 at 12 p.m. EST

  • Not your father’s comic

    Excerpt: Glenn Allen reviews the surprisingly leftist politics featured prominently in the animated HBO Max superhero series Harley Quinn.

  • Solidarity Tyre Nichols

    Justice for Tyre Nichols! Solidarity against police murder!

    The Tempest editorial board and the Tempest Collective stand in solidarity with the family and communities of Tyre Nichols, who was murdered by police on January 7, 2023.

  • 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.