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  • An image of a shattered window.

    Democrats are saboteurs in the resistance camp

    Avery Wear argues that ignoring the differences between the increasingly authoritarian Republican Party and the Democrats isn’t politically effective. Socialists should acknowledge the reality of these differences while making clear that the Democratic Party—as a party of capital and capitalists, even liberal ones—will ultimately sabotage fights of working-class and oppressed people against the authoritarian and…

  • A militarized group of police stands while tear gas floats to the left.

    Solidarity with Venezuelan intellectuals

    A call for solidarity with Venezuelan academics and intellectuals facing state repression. Please add your name to the petition.

  • A photo of posters pasted on a city wall. In the middle, a ZOHRAN FOR MAYOR poster. The whole photo has an orange and grey filter applied to it.

    Mamdani and the tasks for NYC socialists 

    After much collective discussion and debate, the New York City Tempest Collective Organizing Committee here explains the local’s approach to the Mamdani campaign. This includes recognizing the acute need for collective organizing beyond the campaign to win crucial reforms, including those promised by Mamdani, and to defend ourselves against the coming attacks from the right,…

  • Solid blue background. Against it, a grey sketch of a nurse on the left, and a sketch of 3 flowers on the right.

    Support Ukraine’s Nurses

    A call for material support and solidarity with a campaign on behalf of the Ukrainian nurses union. 

  • A sketch of a classroom against a red background. Empty desks face a short podium in front of a wall with a board, a clock and speaker above the board, and a closed door next to it.

    Strike lessons from Massachusetts teachers

    Peter Allen-Lamphere discusses the education strike wave in Massachusetts with presidential candidate for the Massachusetts Teachers Association and Educators for a Democratic Union member, Matt Bach.

  • A red sketch-style picture of a child holding a key.

    “The starvation of Gaza is not a glitch in the system”

    brian bean, writing for the Tempest National Committee, calls out the crocodile tears of the U.S. ruling class over the starvation of Gaza, and calls for an immediate response to the starving and a broadening of the movement against the genocide and the system behind it.

Recent Articles

  • Ukraine solidarity under the Trump administration

    In principled opposition to imperialism including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in solidarity with the Ukrainian struggle for self-determination and its defense of basic democratic rights, we republish the statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. (USN) on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  • Ukraine’s fight for self-determination

    Upcoming event of the Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. marking the three years anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  • A mural of workers in a field. On the left and right are yellow and green stripes as borders.

    Immigrants Are Leaders in Our Class Struggle

    Avery Wear argues that immigrant workers are creating the first grassroots opposition to Trump’s second-term agenda and are critical to building an effective labor movement.

  • A photo of a keffiyeh with a red filter.

    A review of Palestine and Marxism

    brian bean reviews Joseph Daher’s new book Palestine and Marxism.

  • A picture of a person looking forward with a keffiyeh wrapped around their neck.

    Solidarity with Professor Joseph Daher

    Tempest joins the call for solidarity with Joseph Daher who is facing the loss of his job for his Palestine activism. We stand in full solidarity with all who are facing repression for their principled stand in opposition to the genocide in Gaza and for Palestinian liberation.

  • What’s next for the Syrian revolution?

    Video from a Tempest Collective sponsored roundtable discussion held earlier this month on the Syrian revolution.

  • Campus policing today

    University of Texas professor Karma Chávez describes a new era of campus collaboration with police.

  • A person holds a sign written in Russian.

    Imperial poison in Russian politics

    As we approach the three year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleg Shein, a Russian historian, and a former MP in the Russian State Duma, assesses the impact on Russian politics both now and for its future. 

  • After the South Korean coup attempt

    Hong Myungkyo explains the reason why martial law was rescinded was because of the citizens’ resistance to it, and the reason why state violence under martial law was not implemented as Yoon had hoped was because there remains, in South Korean society generally, a living memory of recent and successful democratic struggles, a history of…