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  • Three signs in blue on white read UAW on strike in front of a sign reading MADE IN THE [American flag}.

    North Carolina’s factory boom

    National policy is spurring new investment in domestic factories, and North Carolina is one center of the boom. David Leon argues that the growth in factory jobs can enable new organizing and workers’ struggle—and that socialists have a key role to play.

  • Two illustrations sit side-by-side. The left illustration shows a punctured pipeline, with oil spilling out and covering grassy land and plants. Two workers' helmets float at the edges of the oil spill. Smoke arises from three oil frackers lining the horizon. In one of the smoke clouds, it reads ‘CAPITALISM.’ And in the oil spill, it reads ‘HURTS THE WORKER. HURTS THE PLANET.’ The right illustration shows a collage of imagery representing things harming the world with things that could help the world. This includes a sunflower plant destroying a bomb, plants growing out of a police car, mushrooms growing out of a spilled bucket of toxic liquid, a person holding a sword and wearing a t-shirt that says DEMILITARIZE.

    Anti-lamentation

    In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.

  • Health care concessions in the NYC public sector?

    Robert Cuffy and Peter Allen-Lamphere argue that the heralded citywide contract is anything but a victory for New York City public sector workers.

  • Resisting the backlash

    A Tempest Collective event on Sunday, March 26 at 2 pm EDT.

  • Two comic book covers featuring the superhero Marshal Law

    Remembering Marshal Law

    Tempest’s Hank Kennedy pays tribute to the radical comic book artist Kevin O’Neill, who died last November.

  • Princeton graduate workers are fighting like tigers for a union

    Tempest member Promise Li reports on the recently announced union card campaign launched last month by PGSU at Princeton University.

Recent Articles

  • Ten years since Occupy Wall Street

    Tempest Collective members reflect on the ten-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.

  • Twenty years since 9/11

    On the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Phil Gasper explains the historical relationship between U.S. imperialism and the jihadist groups in the Middle East.

  • The outlines of opposition in a post-Trump U.S.A.

    Peter Ikeler assesses the multi-dimensional crises facing the U.S., the development of antagonistic social movements under the pressure of these crises, and offers some tentative strategic conclusions on the question of organization for the U.S. Left.

  • DSA sliding right under Biden

    Haley Pessin and Andy Sernatinger analyze the 2021 DSA Convention.

  • From militant to Washington insider

    Tim Goulet discusses the life and death of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.

  • Atlanta was a watershed

    Pranav Jani examines the new wave of organizing against anti-Asian racism and why the Left must deepen our understanding of its impact and origins as we strive to build solidarity.

  • 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.