New Articles

  • A democratic party donkey and a two-horse emblem of the Teamsters Union are in shadow behind the Chicago skyline in a blue on yellow image.

    Building Teamster Power?

    The Teamsters say they are going in a new progressive direction in the U.S. labor movement, yet, Joe Allen explains, there is little evidence of that in the role they are playing in Chicago’s current municipal elections.

  • No arms to Ukraine?

    Nate Moore explains why U.S. based socialists should not be opposing arms to Ukraine despite the inter-imperialist dynamics unleashed by the Russian invasion.

  • a cartoon graphic of a uterus and ovaries in blue with signs reading abortion is healthcare march.

    “Bigger than Roe”

    Madison-area reproductive justice organizers Tessa E. and Dayna Long report on the Bigger Than Roe March and Rally in Madison, Wisconsin on January 22.

  • Class struggle today

    A Tempest Collective event this Sunday, February 12 at 12 p.m. EST

  • Not your father’s comic

    Excerpt: Glenn Allen reviews the surprisingly leftist politics featured prominently in the animated HBO Max superhero series Harley Quinn.

  • Solidarity Tyre Nichols

    Justice for Tyre Nichols! Solidarity against police murder!

    The Tempest editorial board and the Tempest Collective stand in solidarity with the family and communities of Tyre Nichols, who was murdered by police on January 7, 2023.

Recent Articles

  • The Black Legion and beyond.

    Hank Kennedy looks at the history of far right organizing in Michigan and the meaning of its recent resurgence.

  • Defeat in Bessemer

    Longtime socialist and Teamster, Joe Allen, critically assesses both the defeat of the Amazon organizing drive as well as the limitations of the lessons being drawn by some on the Left.

  • The Paris Commune and workers’ democracy

    Thomas Hummel draws some of the principled lessons of the Paris Commune that have guided the socialist Left for 150 years, and asks how today’s Left measures up in having learned those lessons.

  • Addressing the climate emergency with a Biden government

    Paul Fleckenstein reviews the state of the climate movement and climate policy at the start of the Biden era.

  • No war, no KKK

    Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.

  • Organizing Amazon

    Joe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama

  • Socialists and the BAmazon Union

    Nasrin discusses the lack of a coordinated response from the Democratic Socialists of America to what could be the most significant union election in the South in decades.

  • Electoral politics ≠ Black liberation

    Phillip Clark assesses the current political moment and argues that Black liberation cannot be realized through electoral politics.

  • Texas freeze

    Texas-based socialist Snehal Shingavi dissects the most common explanations for the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 and finds they fail to address the systemic causes which are not at all unique to Texas.