New Articles

  • Two photos show different sets of people standing in front of the same vehicle, a silver four by four pickup vehicle. The vehicle has a flag laid on top of its front hood that says “GMB. WORKING TOGETHER.” The left image shows a person wearing a t-shirt that says ‘UKRAINIAN’ holding the left corner of a Ukrainian flag that has a handwritten message written on the flag’s yellow stripe. The message’s lettering are too faint to discern specific words. Another person holds the right corner of the flag. The right image captures the same person wearing the shirt that says ‘UKRAINIAN’ with two people wearing red shirts with the British National Union of Mineworkers logo. One of them holds up a piece of fabric with text that says ‘SUPPORT UKRAINE.’ Above the text is the NUM logo and below is the Ukrainian flag.

    Ukraine, Palestine, and internationalism

    Ashley Smith of the Tempest Collective interviews Vladyslav Starodubstev on the one-year anniversary of the war about the struggle for internationalist solidarity in Ukraine and Palestine.

  • Two images overlap with one another. The left image is a vintage photo of Mussolini, dressed in army ware, inspecting the front of the Italian Saar troops, composed of grenadiers and carabinieri, in Rome on December 19, 1934. On the right, a photo of a press conference of multiple people dressed in suits. At the forefront stands Giorgia Meloni, speaking into a microphone of a press conference stand with an inscription saying ‘Presidenza Della Repubblica - Quirinale.’"

    Fascism in Italy today

    Last September a fascist party descended from Mussolini’s movement won election in Italy—a milestone in the advance of the far right internationally. Thomas Hummel examines the Italian situation and argues that united struggle can turn the tide.

  • In the top half of the photo, a large and concentrated amount of white apartment buildings engulf the top half of a tall and wide hill in the photo’s view. Part of the large hill below the buildings is undeveloped and rocky land. In the forefront, and lower half of the photo, a smaller hill is majority undeveloped land, composed of brownish-yellowish rocky terrain with a bit of grass and speckled with a couple of one to three floor buildings. It looks like there are layers in the hill which are most likely roads paved into the hillside. Some trees speckle the undeveloped parts of both hills.

    Gone is the law of the universe, scattered by frivolous fate

    Recent Israeli attacks in the West Bank follow a year of military escalation. Richard Seymour finds the roots of this surge in Palestinian resistance and Israeli class politics.

  • From below and to the left

    These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.

  • Russian words ‘цинк наш!’ graffitied on a white-painted outdoor wall about 12 ft tall. The letters are capitalized and are layered over graffitied images of coffins. There is a small graffiti signature of ‘Z.’ The forefront ground is dirt with some grass. The background shows a car, an apartment building and trees.

    We Say: War on War!

    A statement by the Émigré Branch of the Russian Socialist Movement on the anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

  • A collage in blue on red of an ambulance and nurses holding picket signs announcing that they are on strike.

    How NYC nurses won their strike

    Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld shares an account by NYSNA member Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez of how nurses organized themselves and their community ahead of the victorious NYC nurses strike.

Recent Articles

  • Socialist strategy and the party

    Gilbert Achcar looks at the “broad party” question and its implications for socialist strategy today.

  • Never forget…Afghanistan

    Rory Fanning wishes he had heard a rallying cry through a bullhorn after 9/11 that opposed imperialist war rather than advocated it. He is now working to make sure young people hear those arguments before having to learn, like him, through the experience of service in U.S. empire’s wars.

  • Tempest Solidarity Agreement

    Over the course of our first year, the Tempest Collective has intentionally crafted structures and policies that we hope will facilitate a healthy and comradely political culture.

  • A history of revolutionary class struggle

    Steve Leigh reviews the new book The Fight for Workers’ Power by authors Mick Armstrong and Tom Bramble.

  • Striking echoes in Iran

    Nasrin reports on the growing strike movement in Iran and analyze the historic dynamics and ironies in the strike, and what it means for the theocratic regime.

  • Working class families need universal childcare

    Sarah R explains the importance of universal childcare and how a Childcare For All campaign taken up by DSA would contribute to building working class organizations.

  • Stylized picture of Hong Kong umbrella protest

    Reimagining anti-imperialist praxis in DSA

    Promise Li contends that discerning between allies and enemies is no expression of chauvinism, but a marker of socialist clarity.

  • Is this what solidarity looks like?

    In the aftermath of the “state visit” to Venezuela by DSA officials, Natalia Tylim analyses the debate within the organization, and argues for more democratic deliberation and a greater appreciation of the diversity of the Latin American Left before DSA aligns itself to any ruling parties or states.

  • Safety mirage at FedEx Ground

    Dennis Fritz describes unsafe working conditions at FedEx Ground in Niles, Illinois.