Category: Article

  • A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney

    A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney

    A presentation by Chinedu Chukwudinma at a Tempest panel event on June 22, 2022.

  • Why we are going to Socialism 2022!

    Why we are going to Socialism 2022!

    Three comrades from the Tempest Collective – Phil Gasper, Haley Pessin, Natalia Tylim – offer their reminiscences of the annual Socialism Conference and motivations for everyone to attend this year’s event over Labor Day, September 2-5, 2022.

  • “Written on Mars”

    “Written on Mars”

    The final volume of Philip Foner’s groundbreaking history of the U.S. labor movement is now available. It covers the years 1929–1932. Despite its promise to frame the origins of the labor militancy of the Great Depression, Joe Allen argues that it presents a distorted picture.

  • Towards a new permanent global war?

    Towards a new permanent global war?

    Writing in the wake of last month’s historic North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Spain, Jaime Pastor, analyzes the current strategic path of NATO, as it seeks the global expansion of the U.S-led “western” bloc in a context of growing inter-imperial competition.

  • The continuation of politics by other means

    The continuation of politics by other means

    Keith Rosenthal reviews a new board game published by Jacobin.

  • The necessity of organizing DSA members as workers

    The necessity of organizing DSA members as workers

    Aaron Hall, a labor activist and member of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America (“DSA”), discusses the organization’s labor strategy and how it fits into a broader strategy for the U.S. Left.

  • Nicaragua summons!

    Nicaragua summons!

    This month an International Human Rights Commission made up of parliamentarians, social movement, and human rights leaders from different countries, will be traveling to Costa Rica and from there to the border with Nicaragua to demand access to, and to check on the conditions of, political prisoners held by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and…

  • Through DSA’s looking glass

    Through DSA’s looking glass

    Jen Bolen from Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) National Political Committee (NPC)  describes the story behind the controversial grievance report by the NPC regarding violations of the grievance policy during and beyond the 2021 DSA Convention.  

  • After Roe

    After Roe

    In an editorial for the Tempest Collective, Natalia Tylim offers a perspective for the Left following the loss of abortion rights in the Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

  • 21st century noir in ‘50s Detroit

    21st century noir in ‘50s Detroit

    Glenn Allen reviews Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move—released in 2021 and set in 1950s Detroit—and finds a delightful political film noir.