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

  • Capitalism isn’t coming to save us

    Tempest Collective members Ricardo Gabriel, Thomas Hummel, and Adam Turl offer three different takes on the disaster movie Don’t Look Up.

  • Workers can lead against Covid-19

     A Tempest editorial calls for more collective action in defense of our health, our lives, and our well-being over business as usual.

  • Not essential? Brainerd grocery workers fight back

    Paul KD reports on a new contract for grocery workers at five stores in and around Brainerd, Minnesota.

  • Electoral advances for the revolutionary left in Argentina

    Natalia Tylim interviews Cele Fierro following an electoral breakthrough for the revolutionary Left in Argentina.

  • Not so…grrrrrrreat!

    The eleven-week strike against Kellogg’s ended on December 21 when workers represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers’ International Union (BCTGM) ratified the latest contract proposal (Agreement). The biggest issue for most of the 1,400 strikers was ending the longstanding two-tier wage and employment structure, which condemned a large part of the…

  • When Comic Books Threatened the U.S.A. (and the world)

    Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today.

  • Eleanor Marx and the case for Christmas trees

    Aaron Amaral on EP Thompson’s writing on Eleanor Marx and the meaning of the Christmas tree.

  • Building a mass movement with no apologism

    Within and outside DSA, many on the Left have aligned themselves with the Communist Party of China (CPC). Guest author Travis S. submitted this piece to Tempest in the interest of furthering debate on the question of how the left should relate to the CPC. He explores the contradictions and implications of tying the Left…

  • Nothing natural about this disaster

    Thomas Hummel discusses how climate change-fueled tornadoes and corporate greed caused the deaths of workers at Amazon and Mayfield Consumer Products in the Midwest.