New Articles

  • In the enduring spirit of resistance, our commitment remains steadfast

    A statement from Youth of Occupied Palestine calling for international solidarity and action on Friday, October 20, 2023.

  • Gaza and the struggle for Palestine

    A Haymarket Books event co-sponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest and more.

  • Israel promises war crimes

    Keith Rosenthal looks at Israel’s open intent to create a catastrophe in Gaza—and the hypocrisy of U.S. rulers.

  • The continuing relevance of Beyond a Boundary

    Joel Sronce describes the continuing relevance and insight of C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary.

  • Sixty-seven days on strike

    Tempest’s Sam Friedman reports on an ongoing strike by nurses at RWJBarnard Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.

  • Revolutionaries and reformist organizations

    At the annual Socialism 2023 conference in Chicago, Tempest was invited to debate Left Voice over the question of revolutionaries and revolutionary organization and their relationship with efforts to build broad Left parties. This article is the entry into this debate by Tempest Collective member Aaron Amaral.

Recent Articles

  • In the struggle for abortion rights, capitalism is the enemy

    Nancy Welch of the Tempest Collective and Upper Valley for Abortion Rights delivered these remarks on the fight to rewin abortion rights at a recent meeting of Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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    Origins of the rank and file strategy

    Kim Moody, a veteran of the International Socialists, explains the roots of the rank and file strategy in the Marxist tradition and how the International Socialists (U.S.) tried to put it into practice by diving into the rank and file rebellions of the 1970s.

  • A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney

    A presentation by Chinedu Chukwudinma at a Tempest panel event on June 22, 2022.

  • Why we are going to Socialism 2022!

    Three comrades from the Tempest Collective – Phil Gasper, Haley Pessin, Natalia Tylim – offer their reminiscences of the annual Socialism Conference and motivations for everyone to attend this year’s event over Labor Day, September 2-5, 2022.

  • “Written on Mars”

    The final volume of Philip Foner’s groundbreaking history of the U.S. labor movement is now available. It covers the years 1929–1932. Despite its promise to frame the origins of the labor militancy of the Great Depression, Joe Allen argues that it presents a distorted picture.

  • Joe Biden and Jens Stoltenberg arm bump at NATO summit over a map of the war in Ukraine

    Towards a new permanent global war?

    Writing in the wake of last month’s historic North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Spain, Jaime Pastor, analyzes the current strategic path of NATO, as it seeks the global expansion of the U.S-led “western” bloc in a context of growing inter-imperial competition.

  • Stylized chess board with pieces in orange.

    The continuation of politics by other means

    Keith Rosenthal reviews a new board game published by Jacobin.

  • The necessity of organizing DSA members as workers

    Aaron Hall, a labor activist and member of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America (“DSA”), discusses the organization’s labor strategy and how it fits into a broader strategy for the U.S. Left.

  • Nigaragua human rights commission art - flag overlaid on top of protest

    Nicaragua summons!

    This month an International Human Rights Commission made up of parliamentarians, social movement, and human rights leaders from different countries, will be traveling to Costa Rica and from there to the border with Nicaragua to demand access to, and to check on the conditions of, political prisoners held by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and…