New Articles

  • Building power now!

    Lizartistry has created a new share-able ‘zine that speaks to the disillusionment with electoral politics and offers a vision of how to build political power from the perspective of socialism from below. 

  • 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…

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    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…

Recent Articles

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    CVS workers mobilize for a fair contract

    Nestor Salvador reports on a rally of union members and supporters in Los Angeles targeting corporate giant, CVS Health.

  • Solid green background. At top left and bottom right, two black silhouettes of a bird. In the middle, three pictures with black borders. First and third are photos of the protests, middle is a black silhouette of Bangladesh against a red backgrop.

    Bangladesh in revolution

    Nagesh Rao speaks about the movement that overthrew Sheikh Hasina and the openings it has created to reshape life in Bangladesh. 

  • A red pencil draws a straight, red line from the left to the right of the image against a solid yellow background.

    Lenin, Luxemburg, and the revolutionary tradition 

    Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc respond to John Marot, offering a clarification of their position on Rosa Luxemburg.

  • The genocidal returns of lesser-evilism

    The Tempest Collective panel at the Socialism 2024 conference.

  • A vintage drawing of two elephants on circus balls facing each other, overlaid with a dark red filter.

    The RNC does the Teamsters

    Andy Sernatinger analyzes the recent overtures of the Sean O’Brien-led Teamsters to the Trumpite right and the Republican Party and sees consistency in O’Brien’s own politics over almost twenty years.

  • Haikus for the DNC

    Poet, activist, and teacher Demetrius Noble shares poems arising from the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

  • Prioritizing independent political action

    Tom Harrison makes the case for a broad party of the Left and for Tempest to carry this argument in its political work within the movements.

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    The politics of the aesthetic

    Andrew Boyer calls our attention to the dark side of “sparking joy” through self-improvement and personal aesthetics, such as those represented by tidying guru Marie Kondo.

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    Luxemburg’s lessons and the roots of Stalinism

    In a follow up to his article, Rosa Luxemburg and the democratic road to socialist revolution, John Marot responds to Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc.