New Articles

  • A protester on a yellow background stands in a field holding a sign reading DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST.

    They gave their life to Stop Cop City

    Tempest member Leandro Herrera speaks with an Atlanta Forest defender about Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (aka Tortuguita), a beloved activist part of the Stop Cop City campaign who was murdered by police in January.

  • On the right, in yellow on a dark green background, cafeteria workers dish out food. On the left, the tower at Dartmouth is behind a protest sign reading "Living Staff, Living Wage."

    Victory for the Dartmouth student workers

    Tempest member Nancy Welch interviews Grace Hillery, a sophomore and member of the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth, on their recent union contract victory for student workers.

  • Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century

    Panelists on Tempest’s Building the Revolutionary Left Today panel present the questions and takeaways from their experiences in the revolutionary Left.

  • Hal Draper’s America as Overlord

    Samuel Farber provides the foreword in the Haymarket-published book America as Overlord, a collection of essays written by Hal Draper in the 1950s and 1960s on the role of U.S. imperialism from World War II to the Vietnam War.

  • An aerial image of Burlington Vermont with an ink drawing of a police car following a Black Lives Matter March.

    Fund services, not police and prisons!

    A panel of Vermont activists spoke out on police, prisons, and capitalism in late January. Speakers took up the need to fund social services and defund police and prisons. The event highlighted a specific reform—community control of police—that is on the local ballot in Burlington on March 7.

  • A crowd of students marches carrying a banner reading "ISU works because we do."

    Revolutionary graduate worker unionism

    Graduate worker Steven Lazaroff considers what it means to be a revolutionary in graduate student unions on the basis of his experience at Illinois State University, where the ISU Graduate Workers Union won a significant victory.

Recent Articles

  • 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.

  • How not to unite a class

    Felipe B. responds to a debate on the Left about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.

  • Escaping the Left’s electoral impasse

    Howie Hawkins argues for ranked choice voting and proportional representation as part of the fight to defend and expand democratic rights.

  • Iran’s Bloody November

    Nasrin summarizes an important new book that maps the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia.