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    In the crosshairs of AI

    Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left.

  • An image of Cornell University with the name tag "Hello my name is Jane Doe" in a repeated pattern across it.

    The gang rape at Cornell

    Dana Cloud puts the horrific rape at Cornell in the context of a socialist analysis of gender violence and the fight for women’s liberation.

  • Pink background with the symbol of the democratic party in front.

    Anti-Woke electoralism

    Hakan Yilmaz argues that flip-flopping on wokeness is a byproduct of the electoralist logic embraced by right-wing DSA caucuses that make up DSA’s leadership majority, and that discounting movements that center the rights of oppressed communities moves the socialist movement away from the long-term goal of building strong and democratic working-class organizations.

  • Background: photo of protest at Ohio statehouse. Foreground: logo of "together we rise" podcast.

    We have to do something

    Ohio professor and activist Pranav Jani interviews organizer Kristen Guptill-Godfrey about solidarity and socialist organizing.

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    The economics of U.S. imperialism (part 1)

    Despite mounting corporate debt and a disastrous war on Iran, the U.S. economy is powering ahead—led by the investment boom in AI. G. Stewart explores the resilience of the economy and the contradictions that threaten to undermine it.

  • A crowd of people holding Ukranian flags.

    Ukraine Needs International Solidarity as Russia Escalates Its Aggression

    We need to strengthen global working-class solidarity with the Ukrainian working class and their self-organization during the continued devastation of the war, argues the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) in this republished statement.

Recent Articles

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    Workers will fight for their self-interest

    Kim Moody assesses some recent writings and interview by Catalyst editor and podcaster Professor Vivek Chibber on state planning, market socialism and the transition to socialism.

  • Signs on a fence that say "bolition" and "stop the violence"

    In defense of abolition

    As prominent leftists and progressives scramble to walk back their previous commitments to “woke” demands, the Tempest National Committee explains why abolition politics is fundamental to socialism.

  • Book cover with title "Metabolic rifts: capitalism's assault on the earth system by Ian Angus" with an illustration of a rift in the earth between rich people and regular people.

    Confronting the ecological crisis

    Paul Fleckenstein reviews Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism Assault on the Earth System and argues that the book makes an important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to our compounding ecological crisis.

  • A photo of a rubbled building.

    Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis

    Earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela in quick succession on June 24. Gonzalo Gómez speaks to Tempest about the official and popular responses to the quakes.

  • A red-tinted photo of ICE officers shooting non-lethal rounds.

    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.

  • Black and white photos of protests.

    Trump’s legal conspiracy (part two)

    In part two of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the resistance he met in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis.

  • A black and white photo of the Prairieland detention center.

    Trump’s legal conspiracy (part one)

    In part one of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the devastating results of the Prairieland case.

  • A composite of photos of Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov with a red filter.

    Try me for treason

    Try Me for Treason; Anti-war Protesters’ Speeches in the Russian Courts  is a film featuring excerpts from four speeches by Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov.

  • A drawing of a family in front of a house.

    Childhood and Marxism

    Kirstin Roberts shows how capitalism renders children as incomplete victims or threats in the context of the capitalist nuclear family–not as beings with personhood and rights. These images are rooted in the capitalist economy and ideologies of the family that buttress it.