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  • 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).

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  • A picture of a sign in a protest crowd with "resist tyranny" written on it.

    Prospects for organized mass struggle

    Mel Bienenfeld offers an optimistic assessment of the emerging struggles against Trumpism and calls for greater organization.

  • A mural depicting the inside of an industrial factory.

    Building solidarity in auto: across the shop floor, across the borders

    An interview with UAW Local 160 member and skilled mold-maker, Jessie Kelly, about Trump, tariff policy, U.S. nationalism and the struggle to build an internationalist and solidaristic class politics on the shop floor and within the Union. 

  • A photo of a school bus turning onto a street in a city. A mosaic-tile filter is over the whole image.

    NYC teachers may toss out union leaders

    The country’s biggest teachers’ union may vote for a major change, but a three-way election is making the results hard to predict. Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien explain what’s at stake.

  • Inside Die Linke

    Sean Larson sat down with Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer of the revolutionary socialist group marx21 to discuss Die Linke’s recent election success and the challenges facing the party and the Left in Germany.

  • A flat field with trees on the right side and clouds in the sky. A purple filter over the whole image.

    Bay Area teachers rally to defend public education and protest ICE 

    A report on the May 17 California-wide day of action in defense of public education, a demonstration which amplified calls of solidarity and targeted the Trump administration, its racism, and its attacks on the working class and our communities. 

  • Toy soldiers arranged in battle.

    Michael Gloss’s real and imaginary wars

    Anatoly Dobrynin examines the conditions that enabled leftist student Michael Gloss to fight on the side of Putin’s Russia against Ukraine and die in the service of Russian imperialism.

  • Bernie Sanders and AOC stand at a podium, edited over the background of a photo of a crowd holding signs.

    Fighting Oligarchy 

    Teto Huezo delivers a critical assessment of  Bernie Sanders’ and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy Tour

  • Only the beginning of the struggle

    Tempest comrades from a number of cities report on their involvement in recent May Day actions. 

  • The Professoriate v. Trump

    The actions signal the beginnings of a convergence between academic labor organizing, Palestine solidarity work, and immigrant defense networks. They demonstrate a necessary and healthy development in the response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on immigrants, trans people, education, working people, and civil liberties, but they are only a first step.