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  • A sketch of an open book with blank pages and a latch on the cover. The whole image is a pale yellow.

    Breaking barriers to academic freedom

    Tempest member Dana Cloud urges scholars to tell the truth and take sides to defend academic freedom.

  • A drawing of a candle lit inside a chalice, against a plain, pinkish-red background.

    Loyalty to truth and solidarity—not to the authoritarian state

    Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian recently spoke at a National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths organized by the American Association of University Professors, which notes that President Trump’s so-called Compact with universities “violates the First Amendment by forcing universities to surrender their right of free speech and academic freedom in exchange for federal funds.”

  • Speak out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the fight for free speech

    The Tempest Collective is a supporter of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter and encourages everyone to attend this event on Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm ET, as well as to join the fight to defend Tom Alter and the growing list of victims of Trumpite repression and the broad attacks on all of…

  • The left half of the image has a green background with a silhouette of a businessman in a top hat. The right half has a dark blue background with overlayed cutout photos of Zohran Mamdani, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries each speaking at microphones.

    The candidate, the billionaires, and the Democrats

    Mel Bienenfeld explains the relationship of Zohran Mamdani to New York elites.

  • A burnt orange background with a yellow rectangle in the middle. Inside the rectangle in black capitalized text says DAILY STRUGGLE, with the logo between the two words. The logo is a gear shape being held up by hands of all skin colors, and inside the gear is a wrench crossed with a pen and pencil.

    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.

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  • 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.

  • An illustration of all the Sesame Street characters lined up next to each other, with the Sesame Street logo faded in the back.

    Union days, sweepin’ the clouds away

    Phoebe Gilpin, Senior Director of Formal Learning at Sesame Workshop, is part of the union organizing committee and one of the workers recently laid off. Gilpin spoke with Keith Rosenthal for Tempest Magazine about the struggle, how it transpired, and what comes next.

  • A blue-tinted image of a person wearing a beanie and scarf, made up of a collage of a few different images.

    Ukrainian anarchists fighting imperialism and building mutual aid in wartime

    Robert Francis reports on Solidarity Collectives, a network of Ukrainian anarchists who are organizing on an anti-authoritarian basis and fighting on the frontlines against the Russian invasion. 

  • A paint-style image of Walter Rodney facing left.

    Walter Rodney: a revolutionary for our times

    Presenting at the 2023 Socialism conference in a panel organized and moderated by Lee Wengraf, Robert Cuffy and Leo Zeilig examine the revolutionary legacy of Walter Rodney, casting light on his break with state socialism and his embrace of working-class struggles from below. What follows is a transcript of their talk, edited for length and…

  • Postal workers under attack and in struggle

    Natalia Tylim interviews letter carrier and National Association of Letter Carriers leader Melissa Rakestraw about a bad contract and the attacks on postal workers by the Trump Administration.

  • A green-filtered image of the Supreme Court with a FOR SALE sign in front of it.

    The Courts & Politicians Have Failed Us

    Legal rallies and marches like here today have their place. They allow us to communicate and solidarize with each other. They allow new people to join our movement and meet each other so that they can do further, more valuable work in the future. However, as Andy Thayer points out, we need more!