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  • Creations of the Third World

    What’s the connection between capitalism and plunder? Sarang Narasimhaiah replies to Vivek Chibber.

  • A blue-filtered photo of a line of ICE agents and a line of people facing each other at an intersection.

    UAW Local 2325 commits to a strike vote to fight ICE 

    Navruz Baum and Andrew Bergman detail how UAWD members in Local 2325 have organized for a strike authorization vote to prepare for mass, democratic labor action against ICE.

  • A pink and blue photo of a street in Cuba, with a smoke cloud edited over the top.

    Trump’s mounting threats against Cuba

    Samuel Farber discusses the escalating threats against Cuba from the Trump administration, building on a recent essay on the crisis in Against the Current.

  • A photo of a semi truck driving down a road.

    Mexican union wins bid to represent truck drivers

    Avery Wear interviews leader about Mexican union win.

  • 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.

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  • 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…

  • Green background. Against it is a drawing of Mao surrounded by people waving red books. To the right it says "socialism from below series" with a cyclone image.

    Was the Chinese revolution socialist?

    The Chinese revolution aimed for national sovereignty and economic development, but not for socialism. Tempest publishes a chapter from Charlie Hore’s new edition of The Road to Tiananmen Square.

  • Against a red background, a dark red silhouette of a group of people waving flags and their fists and arms in the air.

    We need socialism to save democracy 

    A radicalizing working-class majority is ripe for the long-held argument of the tradition of socialism from below: only revolutionary workers’ power, socialism, can win lasting democracy.

  • Mustard background. A sketch-effect image of Sean O'Brien on the left, facing to the right, and J.D. Vance on the right, facing to the left.

    The conservative (d)evolution of Teamsters for a Democratic Union

    Tim Goulet examines the history and recent right-ward direction of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).

  • A dark brown-green background. Against it are three red flags waving.

    “Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition

    David Camfield’s Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of “actually existing socialism.”

  • A drawing of a Palestinian flag waving behind a barbed-wire fence.

    Electoralism cannot free Palestine

    Shireen Akram-Boshar argues that a recent interview by Eric Blanc with Bashir Abu-Manneh and Hoda Mitwally in Jacobin offers a mistaken analysis of the challenges facing the Palestine solidarity movement.