New Articles
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Against colonial narcissism
Sean Larson responds to an argument made by Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom about whether and how to judge the actions taken by Hamas on October 7.
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Venezuelan ambitions and Guyanese oil
Dan Davison analyzes the recent referendum, called by President Nicolas Maduro, which appears to provide the pretext for Venezuela to annex two-thirds of Guyana in pursuit of its oil resources.
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Report from Bogotá
Joel Sronce reports on a major Palestine solidarity demonstration by workers and the Left in Colombia.
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What solidarity requires
brian bean replies to Mel Bienenfeld’s criticism of two earlier Tempest articles by the author on the analysis and posture of revolutionary socialists towards the events of October 7 in Palestine.
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Kissinger’s bloody legacy
Anderson Bean reflects on the destructive legacy of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who died last month at the age of 100 years old.
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Argentina: from Pink Tide to reactionary wave
Tempest interviews Cele Fierro about the recent elections in Argentina and the presidential victory of far right candidate Javier Milei.
Recent Articles
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Remembering Victor Serge
Victor Serge participated in the Russian Revolution and observed it acutely. Theodor Lena pays tribute 75 years after Serge’s death.
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Polarization and paralysis
Now is the time for a critical assessment of the Left’s failed electoral strategy and the shift to a fundamentally different one—an orientation on the independent organization of class and social struggle.
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Staughton Lynd (1929–2022)
Eric Kerl offers his personal reminiscence of Staughton Lynd, who died on November 17 at the age of 92. The article first ran in the Haymarket Books blog.
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Seizing the beans of production!
Tempest members report from picket lines around the country on a one-day strike by Starbucks Workers.
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Victory in Ohio?
Joe Allen analyzes the Ohio Teamsters’ electoral strategy in Ohio and its endorsement of the right-wing Republican, incumbent Governor, Mike DeWine.
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Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?
A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.
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When Iran is free
Amid ongoing protests following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amin in September while in Iranian police custody for several days after being arrested by the morality police, Fred, an Iranian socialist, analyzes the government’s harsh response, the different ideological factions that are within the “woman, life, freedom” movement, and where these opposition…
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Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, #FreeThemAll
brian bean and Shireen Akram-Boshar report on the campaign, during COP27, to save Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
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Voices from Ukraine & Russia
The Real News Network, in partnership with Haymarket Books, hosts a panel with Ukrainian and Russian activists and academics.