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  • A photo of surgeons wearing masks standing over a patient they are operating on. The picture is filtered in blue and yellow. To the right, flowers are imposed over the photo.

    Ukrainian nurses call for continued solidarity in the face of unrelenting attacks

    Ukraine’s healthcare system is pushed to its limits, Kris Parker explains. Hundreds of thousands of combined military and civilian casualties, frequent Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure, and systemic underfunding of hospitals have posed significant challenges to those working in healthcare. The U.S.-based Ukrainian NGO Kryla, with support from the Ukraine Solidarity Network, has launched a…

  • Green background. Against it is a drawing of Mao surrounded by people waving red books. To the right it says "socialism from below series" with a cyclone image.

    Was the Chinese revolution socialist?

    The Chinese revolution aimed for national sovereignty and economic development, but not for socialism. Tempest publishes a chapter from Charlie Hore’s new edition of The Road to Tiananmen Square.

  • Against a red background, a dark red silhouette of a group of people waving flags and their fists and arms in the air.

    We need socialism to save democracy 

    A radicalizing working-class majority is ripe for the long-held argument of the tradition of socialism from below: only revolutionary workers’ power, socialism, can win lasting democracy.

  • Mustard background. A sketch-effect image of Sean O'Brien on the left, facing to the right, and J.D. Vance on the right, facing to the left.

    The conservative (d)evolution of Teamsters for a Democratic Union

    Tim Goulet examines the history and recent right-ward direction of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).

  • A dark brown-green background. Against it are three red flags waving.

    “Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition

    David Camfield’s Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of “actually existing socialism.”

  • A drawing of a Palestinian flag waving behind a barbed-wire fence.

    Electoralism cannot free Palestine

    Shireen Akram-Boshar argues that a recent interview by Eric Blanc with Bashir Abu-Manneh and Hoda Mitwally in Jacobin offers a mistaken analysis of the challenges facing the Palestine solidarity movement.

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  • In honor of May Day

    On May 1, the day honoring the international working class struggle, the Tempest National Committee calls for labor mobilization and ongoing organizing against the Trump agenda.

  • Donald Trump stands behind a podium, holding up a board of numbers.

    Madness as method

    Thomas Hummel argues that Trump’s tariff policy is a desperate gamble to re-establish U.S. world dominance.

  • 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.