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  • The Professoriate v. Trump

    The Professoriate v. Trump

    The actions signal the beginnings of a convergence between academic labor organizing, Palestine solidarity work, and immigrant defense networks. They demonstrate a necessary and healthy development in the response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on immigrants, trans people, education, working people, and civil liberties, but they are only a first step.

  • A solidarity message from Canada on the UAW and auto tariffs

    A solidarity message from Canada on the UAW and auto tariffs

    A powerful statement to the labor movement and auto workers from Bruce Allen, a former president of Unifor Local 199, opposing Trump’s tariff policies. This was read at one of the twin rallies held on April 26, 2025 in Detroit and across the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario. 

  • The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus

    The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Sopho Verdzueli, who are all members of a new Left organization in the country of Georgia. In the midst of high levels of struggle, including one of largest and most sustained mass protests in their country’s history, socialists in Georgia have come together to form…

  • Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender

    Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender

    Sean K. Isaacs reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

  • Real freedom means having no fear

    Real freedom means having no fear

    Public defender Pauloma Martinez delivers a May Day call to action at the Queens Criminal Courthouse.

  • Rebuilding the left as Germany turns right

    Rebuilding the left as Germany turns right

    In an interview, Martin Haller, the Chief Editor of marx21.de, explains the state of politics in Germany which has simultaneously witnessed: a large rise in support for the far right Alternative for Germany; a new right-led government shattering taboos and preparing to re-arm Germany; and the resurgence of Germany’s Left party (Die Linke).

  • Nationalism, workers’ power, and the myth of auto tariffs

    Nationalism, workers’ power, and the myth of auto tariffs

    Andy Sernatinger argues that Shawn Fain and the UAW’s pro-tariff stance misses the real threats to autoworkers and the role the union can play in resisting these threats.

  • Building power now!

    Building power now!

    Lizartistry has created a new share-able ‘zine that speaks to the disillusionment with electoral politics and offers a vision of how to build political power from the perspective of socialism from below. 

  • In honor of May Day

    In honor of May Day

    On May 1, the day honoring the international working class struggle, the Tempest National Committee calls for labor mobilization and ongoing organizing against the Trump agenda.

  • Madness as method

    Madness as method

    Thomas Hummel argues that Trump’s tariff policy is a desperate gamble to re-establish U.S. world dominance.