New Articles
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Schools as sites of struggle
Education scholar and activist Lois Weiner discusses the strength of education workers and the specific attacks facing the education sector.
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Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China—argues Ashley Smith.
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An internationalist looks back
Alex de Jong reviews the Filipino activist-scholar Walden Bello’s new memoir, Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love. Chronicling Bello’s political development, Global Battlefields provides us with an informative and entertaining portrait of a committed internationalist.
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The buffoon, the empire, and the crisis
Thomas Hummel describes the onslaught of Trump’s first six months: a program of crisis-driven neoliberal austerity and ideological appeals to his petty bourgeois base.
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The instrumentalization of antisemitism and the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States
Sherry Wolf and Charlie Post chart the bad-faith conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and argue for the importance of openly organizing as anti-Zionist Jews in relation to the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace in the United States.
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The Mamdani moment
While the project of reforming the Democratic Party from within is a strategic non-starter, BC Hamilton cautions socialists against mere dismissal of Zohran Mamdani. Rather, he argues that a sober understanding of the limitations of Mamdani’s electoral strategy of inside-out reform must be married to a proactive campaign of solidaristic organizing.
Recent Articles
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Leftist studies in China and the United States
Shi Yongqin is a translator whose life’s work has been to bring Trotsky’s writings to a Chinese audience. Here he talks with Paul Le Blanc.
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Trump and his oligarchs (back) at the gate
On the brink of the second Trump presidency, Tempest offers this editorial statement on the current moment and the tasks ahead.
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DSA never recovered from Bowman
Andy Sernatinger looks at the numbers and diagnoses DSA’s rise and slide.
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Report on the Amazon Teamsters’ strike in Southern California
Michael Fabregas and Promise Li, members of the Los Angeles branch of Tempest, report on Teamsters’ pickets against Amazon in Southern California.
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At NYU, pro-Palestinian efforts are in the crosshairs
BC Hamilton reports on the repression of pro-Palestine activism at NYU.
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After decades, an insurgency falters
The strongest force on the Philippine Left is faltering under long-term attrition. Alex de Jong explains the decline.
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For an end to last-gasp liberalism
Sarang Narasimhaiah calls for a break with the deeply ingrained but unacknowledged principles and protocols of liberalism and the organization of an independent left alternative.
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Grief, mourning, and solidarity
Sarah Jaffe discusses grief, Palestine, and the pandemic in an interview about her recent book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
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Navigating the storm, rebuilding the fightback
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