New Articles

  • Did the Left wing of the Second International foreshadow the politics of the Third?

    John Marot argues that the politics of the Third International, formed in 1919, did not just carry forward the positions of the Left wing of the Second. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed what the Left thought about workers’ power.

  • Starbucks: the long haul from recognition to a national contract

    Frank Emspak argues that Starbucks workers can win a union and a contract at Starbucks if the labor movement acts like a labor movement.

  • Why are hospitals keeping nurses away from patients in need?

    Tempest member Snehal Shingavi interviews striking union nurses in Kansas and Texas following their historic one-day strike in June against Ascension and the company’s retaliation to lockout the employees from returning to work for three days.

  • Trapped in the Democratic Party

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith describes how Joe Biden’s economic program represents “imperialist Keynesianism” designed to rival China, ameliorate domestic social inequalities, and neutralize challenges from both the Left and the Trumpian right. The Left must build an alternative.

  • Are the Teamsters going red-hunting?

    Joe Allen highlights the barely-concealed red-baiting in a recent defense of the UPS Tentative Agreement from a Teamster National Bargaining Committee member.

  • War is hell

    Sam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.

Recent Articles

  • Relief, anti-climax, and glimmers of hope

    Sylvestre Jaffard analyses last month’s election results in the French presidential election, including the prospects for a rejuvenated Left challenge in the June legislative vote.

  • Anti-choice bigots stopped in NYC

    Haley Pessin reports on this weekend’s victory by New York City for Abortion Rights.

  • Roe under attack, time to fight back!

    Tempest reports on abortion rights protests and upcoming actions around the country in response to the leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

  • Fighting for trans and queer liberation

    A transcript from the Tempest Collective sponsored panel on April 24, 2022.

  • Rally in defense of abortion and bodily autonomy

    Some 150 people rallied in Burlington, Vermont on the evening of May 3, 2002, at the Federal Building. The event was called by Planned Parenthood. The first speakers were Vermont Democratic Party Congressman, Peter Welch, and  Lt. Governor, Molly Gray, both remarking on the breathtaking and shocking nature of the Supreme Court’s draft decision, and…

  • The tragedy of Puerto Rico

    Rafael Bernabe situates the political challenges facing Puerto Rico and, through the lens of Lenin in 1905, calls for a more explicit focus on capitalism as the problem, and the need to “organize pessimism” to retrieve the kernel of hope necessary for the fights ahead.

  • Oakland teachers and ILWU strike against racism and gentrification

    Bill Balderston reports of labor actions in the East Bay, directed against school closures and gentrification. A show of solidarity in common struggles against gentrification and racism in Oakland.

  • What are the origins of May Day?

    Rosa Luxemburg on the origins of May Day as International Workers Day.

  • The Teamsters: A new era?

    Joe Allen examines the expectation and challenges facing the new leadership of the Teamsters.