New Articles

  • Global crises and global revolts

    In this talk delivered last September at the Socialism Conference, Tempest member Shireen Akram-Boshar describes how multiple global crises and revolts signal rising popular rage against the neoliberal capitalist order. Because neoliberalism has eviscerated resources for care and social reproduction, feminist insurgency is especially important.

  • Solidarity against Anti-Palestinian hate crimes

    Paul Fleckenstein interviews Wafic Faour and Ashley Smith, two organizers with the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation.

  • The Legacy of October 7

    Mel Beinenfeld assesses the Hamas attack of October 7 and its consequences.

  • Palestine 101

    A Tempest Collective event last month featured Tempest members brian bean, Sherry Wolf, and Shireen Akram-Boshar discussing “75 years of colonialism, imperialism, and resistance” in Palestine.

  • Report from the West Bank

    Najla K. and brian bean report on the state of resistance in the West Bank after October 7.

  • Who should run hospitals?

    Tempest’s Sam Friedman reports on conversations with striking nurses at RWJBarnabas, who are drawing the conclusion that health care workers, not corporations, should run our hospitals.

Recent Articles

  • Shitstorming the opposition

    Dean O’Possum writes about a far-right effort to attack a local Drag Story Time event in Eugene, Oregon and the ideological landscape in which transphobic legislation, online conspiracies, and hate speech targeting trans youth must be understood, organized against, and resisted. Excerpt: Dean O’Possum writes about a far-right protest against a Drag Story Time event…

  • Kanye Kyrie antisemitism

    Kanye, Kyrie, and the continuum of antisemitic violence

    Naomi Bennet addresses the antisemitic social media outbursts by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving and places them in the context and continuum of the wider growth of antisemitism, cultivated within ruling class and right-wing media and politics.

  • baltimore BLM protest - ujima peoples party

    Ujima’s plan to transcend neoliberalism in Maryland

    Phillip Clark writes about the Ujima People’s Progress Party, an independent third-party led by Black workers in Baltimore, Maryland,and its ongoing initiative to get on the ballot this election cycle.

  • Why we need a planned economy

    Common wisdom, even among socialists, is that large-scale economic planning doesn’t work. Avery Wear reviews three key texts on the question and argues that planning is not only feasible but necessary.

  • The making of a Black Bolshevik

    Bill Mullen argues that McKay deserves a good Marxist biographer and has found one in Winston James.

  • Stylized image of Wal-Mart workers protesting

    To organize, give people work they want to do

    Zyad Hammad of DSA’s NYC Labor Branch argues that what’s missing in DSA organizing is a “scaffolding” of different tiers of engagement that provides opportunities for members take on labor work with low barriers to entry and then advance to deeper involvement as they learn and grow in commitment.

  • “They’re Here Already!”

    Hank Kennedylooks at the ongoing debates around the politics behind the sci-fi horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

  • No U.S. intervention in Haiti!

    Tempest member Ashley Smith writes on why the Left must oppose the latest threat of U.S. military intervention in Haiti.

  • ¡Mike Davis, presente!

    Anthony Arnove honors Mike Davis (1946-2022) by remembering him as a comrade, fighter, and friend.