Category: Editorial
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How do we stop the bloodshed?
In the wake of the ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine over the summer, the Tempest National Committee makes the case for the Left to build and support independent immigrant defense networks.
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The cause of labor is the hope of the world
The working class has a unique power in struggles against oppression, exploitation, and war—the power to strike. May Day is a time to test and build that power, writes the Tempest National Committee.
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We can’t vote our way out of this mess
The Tempest National Committee looks to the emergence of mass protests as the way to challenge Trump’s authoritarianism.
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Mamdani and the tasks for NYC socialists
After much collective discussion and debate, the New York City Tempest Collective Organizing Committee here explains the local’s approach to the Mamdani campaign. This includes recognizing the acute need for collective organizing beyond the campaign to win crucial reforms, including those promised by Mamdani, and to defend ourselves against the coming attacks from the right,…
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“The starvation of Gaza is not a glitch in the system”
brian bean, writing for the Tempest National Committee, calls out the crocodile tears of the U.S. ruling class over the starvation of Gaza, and calls for an immediate response to the starving and a broadening of the movement against the genocide and the system behind it.
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Which way forward for the resistance?
The Tempest Collective argues that now is the time to throw ourselves into movements opposing President Trump and argue for the politics of solidarity.
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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.
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Free, Free Mahmoud Khalil!
Tempest calls for the defense and release of Columbia Palestine activist Mahmoud Kahlil, ground zero for increasing attacks by the Trump administration on campus activism, the Left, and the working class.
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Each blow against oppression advances us all
The Tempest National Committee argues that struggles against oppression are an essential part of class struggle and charts a political alternative that rejects the dead-end of class reductionism.
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Trump and his oligarchs (back) at the gate
On the brink of the second Trump presidency, Tempest offers this editorial statement on the current moment and the tasks ahead.