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  • Red background. 5 arrows alternating in grey and yellow point upwards from below. In the top right is a small graphic of a tornado below black text reading "Tempest Education Series."

    Socialism from below   

    This introduction to socialism from below by Charlie Post was part of Tempest’s 2025 political education series.

  • A waving flag of Venezuela against a brown background.

    Trump’s Looming “Forever War”

    A statement in defense of the people and autonomy of Venezuela against Trump’s imperialism by the United Left Platform.

  • Dark teal background. On the left is a black and white cutout of a photo of Trump and Putin shaking hands. On the right is the part of a map of Ukraine, with the top half in blue and bottom half in yellow.

    Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine

    Tempest re-publishes the statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. in opposition to the joint Trump/ Putin plan for Ukrainian surrender to Russian imperialism.

  • A photo of a line of police officers on the left, facing metal crowd barriers and a crowd of people behind them on the right, amidst city buildings. Photo is filtered in dark brown-grey.

    After Mamdani, we still have to fight Trump’s America

    The Tempest National Committee argues that, despite the excitement of the Mamdani moment, the Democrats have no answer to Trump’s attacks on the working class.

  • 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…

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  • 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.

  • 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).