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    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.

  • A photo of a wall covered in anti-war graffiti. A child walks in front of it.

    No war on Iran!

    A Tempest National Committee statement of unconditional opposition to the war mongering of Trump, his threats against Iran, and the bipartisan project of U.S. imperial hegemony.

  • A black and white photo of a battle in the street between striking workers with pipes and police officers.

    What does internationalism mean today?

    Working people, wherever they are in the world, have common interests. Our loyalties should be to the working class everywhere, not to any nation, argues David Camfield.

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  • A sketch of an open book with blank pages and a latch on the cover. The whole image is a pale yellow.

    Breaking barriers to academic freedom

    Tempest member Dana Cloud urges scholars to tell the truth and take sides to defend academic freedom.

  • A drawing of a candle lit inside a chalice, against a plain, pinkish-red background.

    Loyalty to truth and solidarity—not to the authoritarian state

    Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian recently spoke at a National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths organized by the American Association of University Professors, which notes that President Trump’s so-called Compact with universities “violates the First Amendment by forcing universities to surrender their right of free speech and academic freedom in exchange for federal funds.”

  • Speak out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the fight for free speech

    The Tempest Collective is a supporter of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter and encourages everyone to attend this event on Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm ET, as well as to join the fight to defend Tom Alter and the growing list of victims of Trumpite repression and the broad attacks on all of…

  • The left half of the image has a green background with a silhouette of a businessman in a top hat. The right half has a dark blue background with overlayed cutout photos of Zohran Mamdani, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries each speaking at microphones.

    The candidate, the billionaires, and the Democrats

    Mel Bienenfeld explains the relationship of Zohran Mamdani to New York elites.

  • A burnt orange background with a yellow rectangle in the middle. Inside the rectangle in black capitalized text says DAILY STRUGGLE, with the logo between the two words. The logo is a gear shape being held up by hands of all skin colors, and inside the gear is a wrench crossed with a pen and pencil.

    Introducing the UAWD’s Daily Struggle

    UAWD, a rank-and-file caucus within UAW, is holding a launch event this Sunday, October 19, at 3 pm ET for a new worker-led publication by and for UAW members that will provide a platform for workers to speak for themselves. Register for the event here.

  • A photo of two men in suits, Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn, leaning together, talking. The photo has a red filter over it.

    Rehabilitating McCarthyism

    As Trump continues to escalate his campaign of domestic repression, Tempest offers a perspective from Bill Keach on the repression of another period—the McCarthy era.

  • Two sketch-style portraits of indigenous people, each with feathers in their hair and wearing a necklace. The portrait to the left is filtered in green, the portrait to the right is filtered in orange.

    Indigenous Peoples’ Day

    The Tempest editorial board suggests a list of readings and resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

  • A sketch of two reddish flowers against a muted pinkish background.

    “A huge massacre awaits”

    Tempest’s Shireen Akram-Boshar asked Toufic Haddad to characterize the current phase of the Gaza genocide.

  • A photo of Tom Alter smiling at the camera holding his dog. The photo has a green filter over top of it.

    Statement by the Committee to Defend History Professor Tom Alter

    A call for support for professor fired for speaking at a socialist conference.