New Articles
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For a strategy of independence and mass struggle
Ashley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.
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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.
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Socialism from below
This introduction to socialism from below by Charlie Post was part of Tempest’s 2025 political education series.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Recent Articles
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Which way forward for the resistance?
The Tempest Collective argues that now is the time to throw ourselves into movements opposing President Trump and argue for the politics of solidarity.
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How mass protest can turn liberal dissent into struggles for liberation
Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian discusses how leftists need to approach people attending mass protests against Trump.
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End the war in Iran!
The Tempest National Committee prepared the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s bombing of Iran.
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The Middle East in flames—yet again
Imran Kamyana assesses the social forces at play in Israel’s war against Iran.
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Neither authoritarianism nor exploitation
The Venezuelan socialist organization Marea Socialista offers a powerful critique of the Maduro government and calls for independent working-class organization.
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The crisis of liberal hegemony
Ilya Budraitskis discusses the successes of the far-right internationally, the post-fascists, and what the Left must do in response.
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The battle of Los Angeles
Tempest members provide a gripping account of the rise of pro-immigrant resistance and police and military backlash in Los Angeles.
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Assessing the queer fightback
Within a few days of Trump’s first anti-trans executive order, protests were called, and trans people and their allies began to gather in large numbers to demonstrate their opposition in NYC and beyond. To grow and sustain this opposition, it is important for organizers to recount and reflect on the shape and form of struggle…
