New Articles

  • Yes, we do mean smash the state

    Announcing a Tempest Collective event on Sunday, April 23 at 2 pm featuring Tempest Collective member brian bean on smashing the state.

  • Banking failures and a system in crisis

    Thomas Hummel examines the recent run of bank failures and finds a system riven by crisis and contradictions.

  • The dialectics of defeat—lessons from the United Kingdom

    Aaron Amaral reviews Michael Chessum’s book This is Only the Beginning.

  • “We’re all here for the same reason”

    Naomi Bennet and Amber Boardman are Ohio-based socialists working to defend queer communities from fascist violence and they discuss the lessons of the past several months and the new challenges facing anti-fascists around the country.

  • Resisting the backlash

    Speakers on the Tempest Panel “Resisting the Backlash, Defending Black Studies” look to educator organizing and labor movements in higher education as inspiring sites of struggle to defend Black studies against the right-wing backlash.

  • A rocky road on the upward path of labor action

    Kim Moody looks at the changing economic, internal union, and political contexts for workers whose contracts expire this year and argues that intransigent employers will face a union workforce with years of accumulated grievances, a cost-of-living crisis, and a rebellious rank and file. We can expect major struggles in 2023. This offers a huge opportunity…

Recent Articles

  • Solidarity with Sawant

    On behalf of the Tempest Collective, William Gifis calls for solidarity with Kshama Sawant in the December 7 recall election.

  • Do comrades cross picket lines?

    brian bean responds to Hadas Thier’s article in Jacobin,  “No, DSA Shouldn’t Expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman”.

  • Four distinct approaches to revolutionary organization

    A slightly edited version of a short talk by Aaron Amaral on perspective for the revolutionary Left, given at the 2021 Tempest Convention.

  • The Teamster Election

    Joe Allen explains the prospects for the Teamsters in the aftermath of the most recent Union election.

  • In you I trust

    A poem from Brian Young Jr. in recognition and celebration of the first Tempest Collective convention.

  • Hospital workers on sympathy strike

    Reviving the sympathy strike

    Emma Wilde Botta and Elizabeth Lalasz report on recent labor unrest at the healthcare giant Kaiser.

  • Palestine, Bowman, and the DSA

    brian bean argues for continuing to demand both the expulsion of Bowman and a renewed principled commitment to BDS from DSA and the entire U.S. Left.

  • Let this radicalize us

    Tempest Collective issues its official statement in response to the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal.

  • Apartheid is a red line

    Leandro Herrera argues why socialists cannot afford to compromise on solidarity with Palestine.