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  • A photo of a line of soldiers standing in front of the Capitol building.

    Trump’s D.C. occupation is an attack on all of us

    In this interview, conducted before Trump’s direct control of the M.P.D. expired, D.C.-based scholar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò discusses the forms of resistance and experimental collectivity that emerged in opposition to Trump’s takeover and considers the possibility of future escalation and organization.

  • A photo of a protest for Palestine. Background: signs in Spanish and Palestine flags. Foreground: 3 people, 2 of whom are wearing keffiyehs.

    Palestine on trial in Argentina

    As Argentina continues to arrest peaceful protesters, socialist Alejandro Bodart speaks to Tempest again about the criminalization of himself and other advocates of Palestinian freedom.

  • Edgardo Lander, a man with white facial hair and glasses, speaks at a microphone while gesturing with his hands. The photo has a red filter over it.

    Venezuela’s authoritarian turn and the repression of its Left

    In this interview, conducted by Anderson Bean, Edgardo Lander reflects on the deepening repression in Venezuela, the criminalization of dissent, and the stakes for academic freedom, democracy, and international solidarity

  • Against a pink background, a sketch of a young person wearing a cap with a ponytail, holding the strings to a kite that floats in the air up to the left.

    On the Flotilla to Gaza

    Anderson Bean and brian bean interview Argentina socialist Cele Fierro about aid flotillas to Gaza sailing from Tunisia and Spain.

  • Resisting anti-trans policies in NYC and beyond

    Danielle Bullock discusses examples of organized resistance to the attacks on trans youth in New York City and beyond.

  • A photo of an Air Canada plane on a runway.

    More pay, but less union democracy

    Striking flight attendants at Air Canada have won real gains in pay, but union officials bargained away the workers’ right to reject the deal and fight for more. As the ratification vote goes on, David Camfield explains.

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  • For revolutionaries, the period must be defined by the international fight against the far right

    Thomas Hummel describes how the rise of the far right defines the tasks of socialists today.

  • A Tesla Cybertruck is on fire, behind a newspaper cover that says "Face the Truth: Richest Man Destroys Aid to the Poor"

    Tesla: An Appeal for an International Anti-Fascist Campaign

    An appeal to build support for the international anti-fascist campaign directed at Tesla and its billionaire, pro-Trump, neo-Nazi owner, Elon Musk.

  • Between Trump and Putin

    Tempest republishes an article from Daniel Tanuro responding to the political alliance between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and its meaning for the European Left. Tanuro warns against any alignment with European capital and the imperial interests of the European Union while highlighting the importance of defending the Ukrainians right to self-determination. 

  • Far-right surges, but left surprises, in German elections

    Sean Larson analyses the outcome of last month’s German elections. 

  • An umbrella underneath the rain. Red tint over the image.

    The radical roots of harm reduction

    Even the best accounts of the movement for harm reduction leave out the role of Marxists, anarchists, and other radicals. Sam Friedman sets the record straight.

  • So-called axis of resistance  

    Iran has been attempting to achieve a regional balance of power against Israel and the U.S. as well as pursue its own military and economic aims in the region. The regime views any challenge to its influence in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip, whether from below by popular forces or from Israel, other…

  • A black illustration against a burnt orange background, of different people walking over hilly ground from left to right, some holding each other's hands.

    Trump’s anti-immigrant push 

    Aly Wane predicts what’s coming for immigrants in the Trump era.

  • Each blow against oppression advances us all

    The Tempest National Committee argues that struggles against oppression are an essential part of class struggle and charts a political alternative that rejects the dead-end of class reductionism.

  • Illustration of young people, some in headscarves, reading.

    Scholasticide at the American Historical Association 

    Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision.