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  • Standing for justice in Palestine

    Tempest members report on large and inspiring rallies, marches, and acts of civil disobedience over the past week in defense of Palestinian resistance and condemnation of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.

  • Why capitalism fails

    In this talk, delivered in June 2023 at the Tempest NYC Marxism day school, Charlie Post discusses Marxist crisis theory.

  • Healthcare workers demand an end to the siege on Gaza

    A statement and petition from healthcare workers in opposition to the collective punishment of Gazans demands an end to the seige.

  • UAW revs up historic strike

    Héctor Rivera reports on a spirited UAW rally in Rancho Cucamonga as the strike continues.

  • Thousands demand a free Palestine in Los Angeles

    Héctor Rivera and Dana Cloud report on a thousands-strong rally in Los Angeles on October 14 in defense of Palestinian resistance and an end to Israel’s genocide.

  • Stylized image of a child flying a kite, in the colors of the Palestinian flag

    Remember Wadea Al-Fayoume

    In addition to funding the apartheid state of Israel with billions of our tax dollars every year, politicians at every level have created an environment of racism and Islamophobia.

Recent Articles

  • Taiwan: Caught Between Rival Superpowers

    Tempest interviews Brian Hioe and Wen Liu, two prominent commentators on Taiwanese politics and editors of New Bloom Magazine, about Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit and the geopolitical battle between the U.S. and China over the island.

  • Homestead Steel Mill art, stylized in pink and blue

    Why the hell not

    Gary Holloway reviews Mike Stout’s 2020 memoir Homestead Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years.

  • Unleashing the fight for reproductive justice

    Ashley Smith urges those in the fight for abortion justice to build mass opposition to the abortion ban instead of looking to the Democratic party, elections, or liberal feminist organizations.

  • Defend Walden Bello!

    Information on the arrest of Philippine activist, intellectual, and politician Walden Bello and a call to build a campaign in his defense.

  • The rise and fall of progressivism in Latin America

    Anderson Bean reviews The Impasse of the Latin American Left, a new book by Frank Gaudichaud, Massimo Modones, and Jeffery R. Webber on the experience of the Latin American Left, over the last couple of decades, in and out of power.

  • Sri Lanka’s democratic revolution

    Months of protests brought down Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last month. Scholar-activist Rohini Hensman situates this victory as one step in a protracted struggle for democracy in Sri Lanka.

  • Competing visions of the BDS Boston Mapping Project

    Naomi Bennet critically unpacks the controversy over the BDS Boston Mapping Project.

  • The Vietnam War in comics, after the war

    In the follow-up to an earlier article looking at the representation of the Vietnam War in mainstream U.S. comics, Hank Kennedy focuses on the years following the formal conclusion of the war.

  • Dropping like flies

    Joe Allen shares stories of UPS drivers endangered by the lack of air conditioning in delivery vehicles and the company’s failure to respond.