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  • A blue-filtered photo of the back of a crowd holding anti-ICE signs in front of a building.

    The January 30 general strike: A success even if it wasn’t a strike

    When mass outrage broke out against ICE repression in January, Somali students in Minneapolis called for nationwide walkouts on January 30. Whether the result was a strike or not, says Frances Bolger, this well-timed call gave students and others around the country a chance to make important strides in self-organization.

  • A photo of Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores edited in front of a map of Venezuela.

    In the time of predators

    In this interview translated by Hector Rivera, Antoine Larrache asks Franck Gaudichaud about his analysis of events in Venezuela and Latin America.

  • A yellow-filtered photo of an empty classroom.

    Public education under attack

    NYC public school teacher Danielle Bullock discusses the “shock and awe” school reform of the Trump era with teachers from Oklahoma, Kansas, Florida, and Iowa.

  • A map of Iran and Iraq with two red pins in the map.

    Iran’s liberators and their ledger books

    Sirantos Fotopoulos picks apart the reasons for the assault on Iran.

  • A green and red filtered photo of a crowd marching with signs written in Arabic.

    The Kurds and the Syrian revolutionary process

    Joseph Daher writes about the evolution of Kurdish politics after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and argues that the liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular classes as a whole are bound together.

  • A pink-filtered photo of a hospital building overlayed with outlines of people carrying signs.

    We are not the same nurses who went out on strike

    An interview with three rank-and-file strike leaders from the recently concluded nurses strike in New York City.

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  • A vibrant purple background. Against it are black silhouettes of people and podiums. In the top right is a red square with a small graphic of a tornado below black text reading "Tempest Debates."

    For a strategy of independence and mass struggle

    Ashley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.

  • A dusky orange background. Against it are black silhouettes of people and podiums. In the top right is a red square with a small graphic of a tornado below black text reading "Tempest Debates."

    Mamdani’s fight is our fight

    Todd Chretien argues that socialists need to find “a useful role inside the Mamdani experiment” instead of issuing warnings from outside.

  • Red background. 5 arrows alternating in grey and yellow point upwards from below. In the top right is a small graphic of a tornado below black text reading "Tempest Education Series."

    Socialism from below   

    This introduction to socialism from below by Charlie Post was part of Tempest’s 2025 political education series.

  • A waving flag of Venezuela against a brown background.

    Trump’s Looming “Forever War”

    A statement in defense of the people and autonomy of Venezuela against Trump’s imperialism by the United Left Platform.

  • Dark teal background. On the left is a black and white cutout of a photo of Trump and Putin shaking hands. On the right is the part of a map of Ukraine, with the top half in blue and bottom half in yellow.

    Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine

    Tempest re-publishes the statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. in opposition to the joint Trump/ Putin plan for Ukrainian surrender to Russian imperialism.

  • A photo of a line of police officers on the left, facing metal crowd barriers and a crowd of people behind them on the right, amidst city buildings. Photo is filtered in dark brown-grey.

    After Mamdani, we still have to fight Trump’s America

    The Tempest National Committee argues that, despite the excitement of the Mamdani moment, the Democrats have no answer to Trump’s attacks on the working class.

  • Against a bright pink background are two sketchlike drawings in navy of Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani.

    After the surreal summit

    Ashley Smith analyzes the surreal, chummy meeting between the authoritarian Trump and NYC Mayor Elect and self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and argues that building mass class and social struggle is the only way forward.

  • Against a dark grey background are 5 candles in the colors of the trans flag stripes (blue, pink, white, pink, blue) from left to right.

    Resisting transphobia

    As part of the past week of events that took place throughout the country during Trans Awareness Week and the observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, the Vermont Tempest chapter hosted an event, “Resisting Transphobia,” that took place in the backdrop of the local tragic death earlier this month of Middlebury College…

  • A photo of surgeons wearing masks standing over a patient they are operating on. The picture is filtered in blue and yellow. To the right, flowers are imposed over the photo.

    Ukrainian nurses call for continued solidarity in the face of unrelenting attacks

    Ukraine’s healthcare system is pushed to its limits, Kris Parker explains. Hundreds of thousands of combined military and civilian casualties, frequent Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure, and systemic underfunding of hospitals have posed significant challenges to those working in healthcare. The U.S.-based Ukrainian NGO Kryla, with support from the Ukraine Solidarity Network, has launched a…