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  • A crowd of people fills a street of houses with their backs to the camera. Photo has a green filter over it.

    Minneapolis shows the way

    Friday’s mass strike actions in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump’s racist campaign of street terror—and an example for activists in other cities to follow. A Tempest National Committee statement.

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    The end of pretenses

    The January 3 attack on Venezuela, says Anderson Bean, was the collision of U.S. imperial escalation with a regime that had dismantled the very social forces capable of defending sovereignty from below.

  • On a street of houses, a row of police and police cars faces a group of people. The photo is filtered with a cream and brown color filter.

    ICE is waging class war

    ICE terror is an attack on the whole working class. Anthony Teso explains.

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    We can’t vote our way out of this mess

    The Tempest National Committee looks to the emergence of mass protests as the way to challenge Trump’s authoritarianism.

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    Being on strike when your employer is a union 

    Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since October 27, 2025. Chris Little and Jeffery R. Webber sat down with CUPE 1281 members, Nicole Leach and Manuel Marqués, to discuss the reasons behind the strike and the development of the dispute to date.

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    ¡Contra la guerra imperialista de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela!

    Anderson Bean entrevista al socialista venezolano Gonzalo Gómez sobre la escalada de la intervención estadounidense en Venezuela, sus antecedentes, lo que está en juego y una estrategia de resistencia al imperialismo.

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    Democrats are saboteurs in the resistance camp

    Avery Wear argues that ignoring the differences between the increasingly authoritarian Republican Party and the Democrats isn’t politically effective. Socialists should acknowledge the reality of these differences while making clear that the Democratic Party—as a party of capital and capitalists, even liberal ones—will ultimately sabotage fights of working-class and oppressed people against the authoritarian and…

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    Solidarity with Venezuelan intellectuals

    A call for solidarity with Venezuelan academics and intellectuals facing state repression. Please add your name to the petition.

  • A photo of posters pasted on a city wall. In the middle, a ZOHRAN FOR MAYOR poster. The whole photo has an orange and grey filter applied to it.

    Mamdani and the tasks for NYC socialists 

    After much collective discussion and debate, the New York City Tempest Collective Organizing Committee here explains the local’s approach to the Mamdani campaign. This includes recognizing the acute need for collective organizing beyond the campaign to win crucial reforms, including those promised by Mamdani, and to defend ourselves against the coming attacks from the right,…

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    Support Ukraine’s Nurses

    A call for material support and solidarity with a campaign on behalf of the Ukrainian nurses union. 

  • A sketch of a classroom against a red background. Empty desks face a short podium in front of a wall with a board, a clock and speaker above the board, and a closed door next to it.

    Strike lessons from Massachusetts teachers

    Peter Allen-Lamphere discusses the education strike wave in Massachusetts with presidential candidate for the Massachusetts Teachers Association and Educators for a Democratic Union member, Matt Bach.

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    “The starvation of Gaza is not a glitch in the system”

    brian bean, writing for the Tempest National Committee, calls out the crocodile tears of the U.S. ruling class over the starvation of Gaza, and calls for an immediate response to the starving and a broadening of the movement against the genocide and the system behind it.

  • Foreground: Bearded young man speaks speaks outdoors into a microphone. Background: Rally-goers hold signs and listen as they stand on the steps of a building with large columns. A blue tint filter over the whole photo.

    Will Mamdani be allowed to govern NYC?

    To win the Democratic Party nomination for mayor, Zohran Mamdani ran on a platform that won him a base of support in New York City’s working class. Shamus Cooke argues that Mamdani’s promises can only become a reality if his supporters are ready to fight against ruling-class resistance.

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    Suweida under fire

    Joseph Daher lays out the complex situation for activists in Syria’s recent struggles since the fall of Assad.

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    History without democracy

    Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza, the Executive Council of the American Historical Association vetoed the decision. Daniel Johnson provides an update on this important struggle.