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  • Strategies of resistance 

    A panel discussion on the Trump attacks, the beginnings to the organized mass response, and the strategic paths open to the resistance. 

  • A painting of three people sitting face to face over a table, looking down at a book.

    Trump and the Billionaires

    DK Renton responds to Mel Bienenfeld, raising questions about how to understand the second Trump administration and its relationship to the capitalist class. 

  • 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.

Recent Articles

  • A headshot of George Galloway with a dark red tint over it.

    Gruesome George Galloway and the Paris Olympics

    Hank Kennedy writes on the transphobia of once-prominent British leftist, George Galloway.

  • Rebuilding the Palestine Solidarity Movement

    Brian McDougall on behalf of the Tempest Collective Palestine Solidarity Working Group reflects on debates over strategy and tactics within the Palestine Solidarity Movement.

  • Making sense of Venezuela’s presidential elections

    Tempest’s Anderson Bean interviews Venezuelan socialist Gustavo Martinez from Marea Socialista about the July 28, 2024 elections.

  • Join Tempest at the Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago!

    Annabelle Guptill and  Natalia Tylim argue for the importance of the upcoming Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago.

  • U.S. politics today

    Ashley Smith discusses the U.S. presidential election and the limitations of lesser-evilism.

  • Lesser-evilism is not a vote–it’s a strategy

    Tempest’s Natalia Tylim explains how pinning our hopes on the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris against Trump is misguided and how the task is to build an infrastructure of resistance to both parties of capitalism and empire and make the case for a socialist horizon.

  • Palestine and political repression in Argentina

    Tempest’s Anderson Bean and brian bean sat down with Argentine left-wing political leader Alejandro Bodart to discuss his criminal case and the attempt to silence those who defend the Palestinian struggle and silence all criticism of the state of Israel and its policy of apartheid, settler-colonialism, and genocide.

  • The French elections and the defeat of the far right

    Tempest interviews revolutionary socialist Sylvestre Jaffard about the French elections last month, their political impact on both the right and Left, and the prospects going forward.

  • Modi’s electoral setback

    Kunal Chattopadhyay cuts through the complexity of Indian politics to assess the significance of the far right’s surprising electoral stumble.