New Articles

  • 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.

  • A vibrant purple background. Against it are black silhouettes of people and podiums. In the top right is a red square with a small graphic of a tornado below black text reading "Tempest Debates."

    For a strategy of independence and mass struggle

    Ashley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.

  • A dusky orange background. Against it are black silhouettes of people and podiums. In the top right is a red square with a small graphic of a tornado below black text reading "Tempest Debates."

    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.

Recent Articles

  • Militarized police in headgear aim guns toward a group of students in the street, surrounded by wafts of teargas.

    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.

  • An abstract image of jagged red lines.

    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.

  • 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.

  • A close-up shot of a row of pride flags stuck in the grass.

    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…

  • 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.