New Articles

  • Searching for international solidarity

    Alex de Jong reviews the memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, a Filipino revolutionary and member of the “General Command” of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s.

  • A hazy green photo of people praying.

    Dismissing China’s repression in Xinjiang

    Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak recently defended China’s policy toward ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang. David Brophy exposes the weakness of their case.

  • A group of police officers with batons in front of a burning building.

    ICE and the Police State

    Tempest interviews Alec Karakatsanis and brian bean about ICE, the police state, and the tasks for abolitionists today.

  • A photo of a line of people at a checkpoint. In front of it, the book cover for "No neutrals there."

    U.S. Labor’s long history of Zionism

    Paul Fleckenstein reviews No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, documenting U.S. Labor’s historical complicity in Zionist settler colonialism and outlining opportunities for labor in the United States to move toward advancing, rather than suppressing, Palestinian liberation.

  • A drawing of red, waving flags.

    Case studies in political independence

    David Friedman presents lessons for the new socialist movement in building movement-based independent political action and organization. Part two of two.

  • A drawing of red, waving flags.

    Case studies in political independence

    David Friedman presents lessons for the new socialist movement in building movement-based independent political action and organization. Part one of two.

Recent Articles

  • Iran on the brink?

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Houshang Sepehr about the recent wave of mass protest in Iran and the Iranian regime’s brutal response.

  • When the rubber hits the road

    Three organizers discuss putting the tradition of socialism from below to work in their organizing projects. 

  • A photo of Delcy Rodriguez sitting at a table with other people, speaking with the Venezuelan flag behind her.

    Venezuela after the coup

    Ashley Smith talks to Federico Fuentes about the Donroe Doctrine, the crisis of Chavismo, and anti-imperialist resistance.

  • A collage of Donald Trump grasping for a Canadian flag, with a red filter over the image.

    How should the Left respond to Trump’s threats against Canada?

    Tempest member David Camfield lays out the proper Left response to Trump’s bullying.

  • A painting of three people sitting face to face over a table, looking down at a book. A pink filter over the photo.

    Organizing for reform and socialism in the Mamdani era

    In this response to Ashley Smith, Alan Maass argues in support of electoral socialist campaigns, including those that make use of the Democratic Party line.

  • A yellow-filtered image of a school bus transposed next to the face of Zohran Mamdani speaking on a microphone transposed in front of a sign of the brooklyn bridge.

    Mamdani’s mayoral control mishap 

    NYC educators Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien analyze and critique Mamdani’s support for mayoral control of the city’s schools.

  • A purple-filtered photo of protest signs reading things like "General strike", "ICE out of Minnesota", and "Arrest Jonathan Ross for Murder Now"

    The long arc of struggle 

    Harsha Walia argues in the context of the mass mobilizations against ICE in Minnesota, for a politics grounded in the long arc of struggle and learning across generations.

  • Iran: The anatomy of Dey

    Iranian exile Siyavash Shahabi explores the roots of the country’s crisis and the currents that make up the recent wave of resistance.

  • U.S. out of Venezuela – ICE out of our communities!

    The United Left Platform is hosting a meeting to help build the movements in opposition to U.S. imperialism and against Trump’s wars abroad and those here in the U.S.