New Articles

  • On The Brink?: The Teamsters and UPS

    Joe Allen discusses whether UPS Teamsters will strike this summer.

  • The Left under Brandon Johnson

    brian bean argues the need for independent organizing and struggle under Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago

  • We demand justice for Jordan Neely

    In an editorial on behalf of the Tempest Collective, Haley Pessin looks at the conditions that led to the murder of Jordan Neely, an unhoused Black man who was choked to death on May 1 while riding the New York City subway.

  • re: notice of rent increase

    In this poem, Michelle Everette explores how it hurts to be poor.

  • Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy

    Naomi Bennet responds to Charlie Post on how to understand the relationship between the electoral far right and fascist forces and what this means for threats to bourgeois democracy and the strategies for the Left.

  • “The Generals’ fight for power is not our fight”

    Shireen Akram-Boshar and brian bean interview Muzna Alhaj, a member and organizer of a Khartoum Resistance Committee, about the escalating armed conflict between rival factions of the ruling junta and its impact on the revolutionary dynamic in Sudan.

Recent Articles

  • Learning from the 1960s

    A lightly edited reprint, from the 1998 issue of the New Socialist, of an article by Mike Parker on the lessons of the 1960s.

  • Strike back! Labor strategy in the pandemic

    An announcement for a Tempest Collective hosted event, January 30, focused on labor strategy in the pandemic.

  • Roe under attack

    Tempest editors provide a roundup of recent articles on the subject of abortion rights for this anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision

  • BNSF Railway strike authorization request

    TJ Johnson reports on a change in attendance policy that could lead to a potential strike by BNSF railway workers.

  • Khartoum State Resistance Committees Coordination

    Tempest reprints this January 17, 2022 statement of the Khartoum State Resistance Committees Coordination as an expression of our solidarity with the Sudanese revolution.

  • Why a synagogue?

    Naomi Bennet argues that the Colleyville attack is not evidence of a specifically leftist or Muslim antisemitism, but follows the same logic of white supremacist antisemitism as other attacks.

  • Transformation not celebration

    For MLK Day, let’s ensure his legacy remains in service to his vision.

  • Double fault: Novak Djokovic vs. Australia

    Dave Kellaway writes about the ongoing situation involving professional tennis player Novak Djokovic’s legal battle with the Australian government over his vaccination status.

  • What happened to the rank-and-file strategy in DSA?

    Andy Sernatinger provides further historical context and criticism on the uses and abuses of the Rank-and-File Strategy in the Democratic Socialists of America