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    Introducing the UAWD’s Daily Struggle

    UAWD, a rank-and-file caucus within UAW, is holding a launch event this Sunday, October 19, at 3 pm ET for a new worker-led publication by and for UAW members that will provide a platform for workers to speak for themselves. Register for the event here.

  • A photo of two men in suits, Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn, leaning together, talking. The photo has a red filter over it.

    Rehabilitating McCarthyism

    As Trump continues to escalate his campaign of domestic repression, Tempest offers a perspective from Bill Keach on the repression of another period—the McCarthy era.

  • Two sketch-style portraits of indigenous people, each with feathers in their hair and wearing a necklace. The portrait to the left is filtered in green, the portrait to the right is filtered in orange.

    Indigenous Peoples’ Day

    The Tempest editorial board suggests a list of readings and resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

  • A sketch of two reddish flowers against a muted pinkish background.

    “A huge massacre awaits”

    Tempest’s Shireen Akram-Boshar asked Toufic Haddad to characterize the current phase of the Gaza genocide.

  • A photo of Tom Alter smiling at the camera holding his dog. The photo has a green filter over top of it.

    Statement by the Committee to Defend History Professor Tom Alter

    A call for support for professor fired for speaking at a socialist conference.

  • A drawing. Background: a keffiyeh pattern. Foreground: A woman in a white hijab holds a camera up to her face. A Palestinian flag is in the lens.

    Killing the messengers 

    In the midst of Israel’s ongoing genocide, the editorial board remembers the more than 300 journalists who have been targeted and killed by the state of Israel.

Recent Articles

  • Understanding the cynical efforts to dissolve UAWD

    Tempest asked Andrew Bergman, Nevena Pilipović-Wengler, Toly Rinberg, and Judy Wraight, long standing organizers within UAWD, about the recent proposal, originating with a section of the UAWD leadership, to liquidate the important rank and file caucus. A key vote will take place on Sunday. They provide some basic background and explain the principled importance for…

  • Against a solid red background, a black sketch of a person with short hair wearing pince-nez glasses.

    Listening to Victor’s Children 

    Tempest interviews David Camfield about his podcast Victor’s Children and its role in promoting the politics of socialism from below. 

  • Within and without?

    BC Hamilton explains that Zohran Mamdani’s bid for mayor represents the ongoing battle and committed political tactics of the DSA’s inside-out approach. This is the playbook that Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Mamdani have stuck with: democratic socialists who run as Democrats and, when they win, continue to operate within the Democratic Party, forming a left wing…

  • Strategies of resistance 

    A panel discussion on the Trump attacks, the beginnings to the organized mass response, and the strategic paths open to the resistance. 

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

    Trump and the Billionaires

    DK Renton responds to Mel Bienenfeld, raising questions about how to understand the second Trump administration and its relationship to the capitalist class. 

  • A drawing of a book made to look like a matchbook. The cover of the book has the US flag on it, and the matches are on fire.

    Targeted scholars, targeted institutions

    A Tempest roundtable of scholars and activists on the federal and state-level assaults on higher education and strategies of fighting back.

  • We need to do this together

    Tempest member David Whitehouse discusses the resistance to Trump, the arrival of a constitutional crisis, and the need for independent, member-driven Left organizations to protect working people and the oppressed.

  • A person stands at the end of an aisle of warehouse shelves. Photo has a pink toned filter over it.

    Lessons from the Quebec Amazon union campaign

    Amazon’s shutdown of its entire operation in Montreal is a historic moment for capital’s assault on workers and their ability to organize for dignity. The shocking and abrupt move needs to be seen within a broader context, writes Mostafa Henaway.

  • Photo of a tank driving in front of a building in Ukraine. Image is filtered with a blue and yellow filter.

    Death from above, resistance from below, in Ukraine

    In the fourth straight year of Ukrainians defending themselves, Kris Parker writes that a new dynamic threat is rapidly developing under the guise of a Trump administration overtly sympathetic to the rightwing Putin regime and quickly moving to undermine Ukraine’s ability to defend itself.