New Articles

  • In defense of school busing

    This fall, PBS released a feature-length documentary titled The Busing Battleground. On the occasion of the documentary release, Tempest Magazine is reprinting this article and updated introduction, originally published with Jacobin Magazine.

  • A response to Jonah ben Avraham’s “Support Palestinians when they fight…”

    Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom respond critically to a recent article by Jonah Ben Avraham.

  • Political economy of passing

    In recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance and Transgender Awareness Week, Eric Maroney meditates on what it means to be Black and transgender in white-supremacist, capitalist society. In spite of carceral logics and practices alongside intimately felt gender discipline, Maroney finds reason for hope in queer and abolitionist kinship.

  • Academics protest Gaza genocide, face a clampdown on academic freedom

    Tempest member Dana Cloud reports on the breakout of Palestine solidarity in an unexpected space–the annual convention of the National Communication Association.

  • Challenging Raytheon’s complicity with Israeli Genocide

    Tempest members and other activists report on two actions in solidarity with Palestine and targeting Raytheon for supplying military equipment–including the “Iron Dome” system–to Israel.

  • Pat Robertson: Supervillain

    Tempest member Hank Kennedy looks back at the X-Men comic God Loves, Man Kills, which inspired a surprising fight with the famed televangelist Pat Robertson who passed away earlier this year.

Recent Articles

  • Stylized image of a crowd in China

    Courage at Sitong Bridge

    Peng Lifa disappeared into the clutches of Chinese security forces in Beijing after he unfurled banners off a bridge with slogans attacking the autocracy of President Xi Jinping. But his daring act—and his manifesto calling for mass action to achieve democracy—have stirred hope for change and a discussion of strategy among Chinese on the mainland…

  • Will there be a national strike at UPS?

    Joe Allen examines lessons from the 1997 UPS strike and considers the potential for a national strike against the company in 2023.

  • Solidarity with railroad workers!

    Railroad Workers United and Haymarket Books present a panel of rank-and-file railroad workers in a discussion of one of the most important struggles in recent labor history.

  • Long Beach for abortion rights

    Dana Cloud reports on a rally and march for abortion rights in Long Beach, CA earlier this month.

  • Workers at a rally at Amazon's San Bernardino hub

    San Bernardino Amazon warehouse walkout

    Dana Cloud talked with Amazon workers on the picket line about work conditions, wages, organizing, and their future.

  • Past and Present Collide

    Sudip Battacharya reviews Donna Murch, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives and explores how the past informs the present.

  • So that the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement does not die!

    Tempest re-publishes a statement in solidarity with the political prisoners of the Iranian Regime.

  • Biden rides the brakes on labor’s upsurge

    Shamus Cooke analyzes the response of the Biden administration to the recent upsurges in labor organizing and activism and finds reasons for concern.

  • The war and the future of Ukraine and the left movement

    A resolution on Putin’s invasion, war, and the future of Ukraine and the left movement passed by Sotsialnyi Rukh/ Social Movement (Ukraine) at its recent September 2022 convention.