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  • A floor mosaic of bees.

    Workers will fight for their self-interest

    Kim Moody assesses some recent writings and interview by Catalyst editor and podcaster Professor Vivek Chibber on state planning, market socialism and the transition to socialism.

  • Signs on a fence that say "bolition" and "stop the violence"

    In defense of abolition

    As prominent leftists and progressives scramble to walk back their previous commitments to “woke” demands, the Tempest National Committee explains why abolition politics is fundamental to socialism.

  • Book cover with title "Metabolic rifts: capitalism's assault on the earth system by Ian Angus" with an illustration of a rift in the earth between rich people and regular people.

    Confronting the ecological crisis

    Paul Fleckenstein reviews Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism Assault on the Earth System and argues that the book makes an important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to our compounding ecological crisis.

  • A photo of a rubbled building.

    Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis

    Earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela in quick succession on June 24. Gonzalo Gómez speaks to Tempest about the official and popular responses to the quakes.

  • A red-tinted photo of ICE officers shooting non-lethal rounds.

    How do we stop the bloodshed?

    In the wake of the ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine over the summer, the Tempest National Committee makes the case for the Left to build and support independent immigrant defense networks.

  • Black and white photos of protests.

    Trump’s legal conspiracy (part two)

    In part two of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the resistance he met in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis.

Recent Articles

  • Photo of a city covered in smog.

    The smoke is at our door

    Julia Corrado reflects on the impacts of climate change and the Canadian wildfires, arguing that environmental disaster requires more than the market-based solutions on offer.

  • A crowd of protestors holding signs in German.

    Building an anti-fascist city

    Aaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.

  • A graphic of a red fest against the silhouettes of trees.

    The promise of workers’ power

    Debates among the International Socialists in 1976–77 offer lessons for socialists today—article by Bill Roberts.

  • A green maze in the background. Lime green book cover of "Escape from Capitalism by Clara E. Mettei" in the foreground.

    Can shattering capitalist economic theory lead to revolution? 

    Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.

  • A painting of three people sitting face to face over a table, looking down at a book.

    Party Time? Setting the record straight

    Giselle Gerolami responds to Charlie Post on the strengths and weaknesses of left organization, including Solidarity, of which she is a member.

  • Put workers and patients first!

    Workers at the University of Vermont Medical Center fight for a fair contract as the possibility of a strike looms.

  • Trump’s ethnonationalist immigration agenda

    Avery Wear argues that Trump’s second-term immigration agenda marks a historical shift from labor management to ethnonationalism, demanding a new left strategy.

  • Image of Rosa Luxemburg

    Revolutionary Futures

    Promise Li delivers a talk at Occidental College on “reform vs. revolution” that describes how Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project.

  • Frustration and anger on Syria’s streets

    Joseph Daher reports on a surge of protest in Syria.