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  • Inside Die Linke

    Sean Larson sat down with Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer of the revolutionary socialist group marx21 to discuss Die Linke’s recent election success and the challenges facing the party and the Left in Germany.

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    Bay Area teachers rally to defend public education and protest ICE 

    A report on the May 17 California-wide day of action in defense of public education, a demonstration which amplified calls of solidarity and targeted the Trump administration, its racism, and its attacks on the working class and our communities. 

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    Michael Gloss’s real and imaginary wars

    Anatoly Dobrynin examines the conditions that enabled leftist student Michael Gloss to fight on the side of Putin’s Russia against Ukraine and die in the service of Russian imperialism.

  • Bernie Sanders and AOC stand at a podium, edited over the background of a photo of a crowd holding signs.

    Fighting Oligarchy 

    Teto Huezo delivers a critical assessment of  Bernie Sanders’ and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy Tour

  • Only the beginning of the struggle

    Tempest comrades from a number of cities report on their involvement in recent May Day actions. 

  • The Professoriate v. Trump

    The actions signal the beginnings of a convergence between academic labor organizing, Palestine solidarity work, and immigrant defense networks. They demonstrate a necessary and healthy development in the response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on immigrants, trans people, education, working people, and civil liberties, but they are only a first step.

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  • A compilation of photos, all overlaid with a red filter. From top left, clockwise: photo of a person being tortured at Abu Ghraib, people outside the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, a protest in Ferguson, and of a medical rescue in Gaza.

    When the circus leaves town

    The Tempest National Committee argues that while there is little to nothing that the socialist movement can do now to challenge the right-wing visions on offer in the 2024 U.S. elections, a serious reckoning with how we got here and the post-election tasks of the Left is critical to raising our collective horizons beyond the…

  • A photo of Donald Trump on the left and of Vladimir Lenin on the right, all overlaid with a yellow tint.

    The logic of Trump vs. the logic of Lenin

    Paul LeBlanc argues that socialists must adapt Leninism to the current moment to face Trumpism’s political effectiveness.

  • A pencil-drawn image of a city skyline. In the top-right, there are direction signs written in Chinese. Below it are people walking away across a bridge toward the city building. Whole image is overlaid with a red tint.

    A review of China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry 

    Ben Rosenfield reviews Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith’s China in Global Capitalism.

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    A racist counter-offensive in Texas 

    Interview with Joshua Hamilton on the attacks on DEI in the Texas higher-education system.

  • Notes on the ILA tentative agreement and the end of the strike

    Kim Moody offers some initial thoughts on the settlement of the East Coast strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the role of the Biden Administration.

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    The history (and present) of anti-Haitian racism in the Dominican Republic

    Tempest interviews Ingrid Luciano and Amaury Rodriguez, on the history of racist violence against Haitians and black Dominicans, in the Dominican Republic and its current, frightening resurgence.

  • A stone parliamentary building with pillars, on the bank of a river with a bridge.

    The post-election challenge in France

    Tempest interviews French socialist, John Mullen, about the challenges facing the Left in France following the the formation of a new right-wing government led by a prime minister Michel Barnier.

  • Two pictures side by side. The left shows a Black woman in the US behind a prison door, and the right shows a Palestinian youth cross-legged on the floor and blindfolded.

    Solidarity across borders 

    Jayna Ahsaf of the FreeHer VT campaign for the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls in a talk given earlier this year discusses the urgency of global struggles against state violence and incarceration from the United States to Palestine.

  • A year into the genocide

    Tempest Collective editorial on the anniversary of October 7, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and Isreal’s escalating war crime in Lebanon.