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

  • Welcome to the quagmire

    Kim Moody assesses the recent U.S. election results and highlights the strategic cul-de-sac facing those sections of the Left currently oriented on the Democratic Party, while pointing to “strike-tober” and the possibilities of a resurgent labor movement, as an alternative strategic focus. 

  • Which strategy for the climate movement?

    Simo Dorn reviews books by Noam Chomsky and Andreas Malm addressing the question, how can the climate movement win? 

  • After the coup in Sudan

    Joseph Daher analyzes the current situation in Sudan after the military-backed coup last month.

  • Striketober

    Joe Allen looks at the realities of the recent strike waves, including a number of “no” votes on contract ratification, and the role and meaning of worker solidarity for socialists.

  • The contradictions of William Z. Foster

    Avery Wear analyzes the tensions within the political life and writings of William Z. Foster.

  • Commie musings from the bedside

    D.A. Wood reflects on the ideology that underpins the hospital.

  • Rust Belt socialism?

    Thomas Hummel explores the politics of the upcoming Buffalo mayoral election and the potential socialist mayor, India Walton.

  • Takeaways from the NYC-DSA convention

    Hakan Yilmaz reports on the 2021 Convention for the NYC Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.

  • Made in the U.S.A.

    Ashley Smith assesses the Biden Administration’s response to the recent wave of Haitian refugees and finds 200 years of racist history playing out in a south Texas border crossing.