New Articles

  • It’s a smaller world in DeSantis’ Florida

    Eric Maroney provides an analysis of the response to the ongoing wave of attacks against queer and trans youth in the U.S. with a focus on Florida governor and recently announced presidential candidate Ron DeSantis.

  • Vote no and fight for more

    Five years ago, New York City forced its teachers to take cuts in health coverage. This year they’re offering a sub-inflation raise. Keegan O’Brien calls for a NO vote and explains how to build a fight to win more.

  • Three people hold up signs on a tree-lined street. One is standing with the assistance of a cane, one is in a wheelchair, and the third is apparently unassisted.

    Disability justice movements: history and practice

    In this second article of two (the first is here) on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Dana Cloud and Nina Lozano explore the history of social movements by people with disabilities and suggest lessons for socialist practice today.

  • Strike Ready?

    Tempest member Joe Allen explores the role of the Left in preparing for the potential Teamsters strike this summer.

  • Three people are shown from behind holding up signs toward oncoming traffic along a wooded street. One holds a cane, one is in a wheelchair, and the third has no assistive devices.

    The political economy of disability

    In this first article of two on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Keith Rosenthal explains how the category of disability and oppression based on ability are rooted in the capitalist economic system.

  • Building a mass movement to stop Cop City

    Erwin Freed of Workers’ Voice writes on the ongoing struggle against the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, which has become a front-line battle against the carceral state.

Recent Articles

  • No war in Ukraine!

    A Tempest editorial argues that building a movement that can challenge the main enemy at home, to defeat imperialism globally, must be based on solidarity from below, and unwavering opposition to all ruling class adventurism and imperial war-mongering internationally.

  • Bloody Sunday

    On the 50th anniversary of the massacre of innocent civil rights protestors in Derry, Joseph Healy remembers 50 years of British injustice in Ireland.

  • Black Panther Party on the role of Black Democrats

    Kathleen Cleaver speaks on behalf of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1968.

  • In defense of Critical Race Theory

    This is a lightly edited transcript of a panel on Critical Race Theory organized by the Tempest Collective.

  • DSLC: Isn’t democracy power?

    Paul KD and Natalia Tylim provide the Tempest perspective on recent developments with the DSA’s Democratic Socialist Labor Commission.

  • Social movements are how classes struggle

    Tempest reprints a piece by Colin Barker that argues social movements are essential vehicles of the class struggle.

  • 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