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  • A photo of a fighter jet in the air landing on the flight deck of a ship.

    Against U.S. imperial war on Venezuela!

    Anderson Bean interviews Venezuelan socialist Gonzalo Gómez about the escalation of U.S. intervention in Venezuela, its background, stakes, and a strategy for resistance to imperialism.

  • A photo of a mural on a wall. In the mural, we see a line of people with their backs turned towards us and their hands around each other's backs. Across the top and bottom of the photo are a banner of yellow, blue, and red stripes of the flag of Venezuela.

    United Left Platform Calls for Mass Resistance to U.S. Attack on Venezuela

    The United Left Platform statement against U.S. imperialist aggression in Venezuela.

  • A photo of a protest crowd with signs such as "USA Hands off Venezuela" and "The People Demand ICE out of our communities." Across the top and bottom of the photo are a banner of yellow, blue, and red stripes of the flag of Venezuela.

    Oppose U.S. Imperialism in Venezuela

    The Tempest Collective statement in opposition to the Trump administration’s ongoing criminal actions in Venezuela.

  • Grey background. In the foreground are cartoon images of a diverse set of workers working on a car assembly line. Each worker has a string attached to them to the ceiling, and scissors are cutting the strings.

    Fighting layoffs

    Autoworkers Nevena Pilipović-Wengler and Andrew Bergman explain how workers can protect their pay and jobs even when the bosses make layoffs. 

  • Red background. In the center is a painting of two laborers working. Overlapped with it is a box that reads "Tempest Education series" with a graphic of a tornado.

    Socialism from below and the rank and file strategy

    An introduction to the rank and file strategy by Tim Goulet, part of Tempest’s 2025 political education series.

  • Dark red background. Against it, a map of South America, with the shape of China overlapping it.

    Beijing in Buenos Aires

    Trump’s use of pressure and deadly force against Venezuela is escalating. But as British socialist Richard Seymour explains, Trump’s regional agenda is incoherent and largely theatrical—and won’t restore U.S. dominance or stem the rising influence of China.

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  • A painting of a dancer with a flowing skirt, duplicated twice next to each other. Image overlaid with a thick yellow filter.

    Mutual ruin? Or working-class revolution?

    Sam Friedman reviews Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.

  • US dollar bills and Chinese yuan bills overlap. A pink filter over the image.

    Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance

    Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.

  • A close-up of a crowd of people at a march. One wears a sweatshirt that says CTU on it, another holds a signpole.

    May Day Strong!

    Tempest member Alex Schmaus interviewed Chicago Teachers Union activist Jesse Sharkey about the May Day Strong Meeting at CTU headquarters on July 18, 2025.

  • A red-filtered photo of a school bus facing left on a street in front of a wall and trees.

    Schools as sites of struggle

    Education scholar and activist Lois Weiner discusses the strength of education workers and the specific attacks facing the education sector.

  • US dollar bills and Chinese yuan bills overlap.

    Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance

    Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.

  • A close-up of Walden Bellow's face speaking and gesturing with a microphone. The photo has a paintlike orange filter overlayed.

    An internationalist looks back 

    Alex de Jong reviews the Filipino activist-scholar Walden Bello’s new memoir, Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love. Chronicling Bello’s political development, Global Battlefields provides us with an informative and entertaining portrait of a committed internationalist.

  • A red-filtered photo of a crowd of people in front of the Capitol building holding and wearing American flag and Trump regalia.

    The buffoon, the empire, and the crisis

    Thomas Hummel describes the onslaught of Trump’s first six months: a program of crisis-driven neoliberal austerity and ideological appeals to his petty bourgeois base.

  • A photograph of a crowd holding a sign saying "Jews say no to genocide." Photo is filtered with a purple tint.

    The instrumentalization of antisemitism and the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States

    Sherry Wolf and Charlie Post chart the bad-faith conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and argue for the importance of openly organizing as anti-Zionist Jews in relation to the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States.

  • A photo of Zohran Mamdani addressing a crowd on a microphone, covered with a red filter.

    The Mamdani moment

    While the project of reforming the Democratic Party from within is a strategic non-starter, BC Hamilton cautions socialists against mere dismissal of Zohran Mamdani. Rather, he argues that a sober understanding of the limitations of Mamdani’s electoral strategy of inside-out reform must be married to a proactive campaign of solidaristic organizing.