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    “Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition

    David Camfield’s Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of “actually existing socialism.”

  • A drawing of a Palestinian flag waving behind a barbed-wire fence.

    Electoralism cannot free Palestine

    Shireen Akram-Boshar argues that a recent interview by Eric Blanc with Bashir Abu-Manneh and Hoda Mitwally in Jacobin offers a mistaken analysis of the challenges facing the Palestine solidarity movement.

  • 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.

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  • A solidarity message from Canada on the UAW and auto tariffs

    A powerful statement to the labor movement and auto workers from Bruce Allen, a former president of Unifor Local 199, opposing Trump’s tariff policies. This was read at one of the twin rallies held on April 26, 2025 in Detroit and across the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario. 

  • A crowd of people waving flags of the country of Georgia, with a paintstroke-filter effect.

    The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Sopho Verdzueli, who are all members of a new Left organization in the country of Georgia. In the midst of high levels of struggle, including one of largest and most sustained mass protests in their country’s history, socialists in Georgia have come together to form…

  • Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender

    Sean K. Isaacs reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

  • Real freedom means having no fear

    Public defender Pauloma Martinez delivers a May Day call to action at the Queens Criminal Courthouse.

  • A crowd of people hold a long banner saying "Stoppt Die Afd!"

    Rebuilding the left as Germany turns right

    In an interview, Martin Haller, the Chief Editor of marx21.de, explains the state of politics in Germany which has simultaneously witnessed: a large rise in support for the far right Alternative for Germany; a new right-led government shattering taboos and preparing to re-arm Germany; and the resurgence of Germany’s Left party (Die Linke).

  • Nationalism, workers’ power, and the myth of auto tariffs

    Andy Sernatinger argues that Shawn Fain and the UAW’s pro-tariff stance misses the real threats to autoworkers and the role the union can play in resisting these threats.

  • Building power now!

    Lizartistry has created a new share-able ‘zine that speaks to the disillusionment with electoral politics and offers a vision of how to build political power from the perspective of socialism from below. 

  • In honor of May Day

    On May 1, the day honoring the international working class struggle, the Tempest National Committee calls for labor mobilization and ongoing organizing against the Trump agenda.

  • Donald Trump stands behind a podium, holding up a board of numbers.

    Madness as method

    Thomas Hummel argues that Trump’s tariff policy is a desperate gamble to re-establish U.S. world dominance.