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  • A close-up shot of a row of pride flags stuck in the grass.

    Assessing the queer fightback

    Within a few days of Trump’s first anti-trans executive order, protests were called, and trans people and their allies began to gather in large numbers to demonstrate their opposition in NYC and beyond. To grow and sustain this opposition, it is important for organizers to recount and reflect on the shape and form of struggle…

  • A picture of a sign in a protest crowd with "resist tyranny" written on it.

    Prospects for organized mass struggle

    Mel Bienenfeld offers an optimistic assessment of the emerging struggles against Trumpism and calls for greater organization.

  • A mural depicting the inside of an industrial factory.

    Building solidarity in auto: across the shop floor, across the borders

    An interview with UAW Local 160 member and skilled mold-maker, Jessie Kelly, about Trump, tariff policy, U.S. nationalism and the struggle to build an internationalist and solidaristic class politics on the shop floor and within the Union. 

  • A photo of a school bus turning onto a street in a city. A mosaic-tile filter is over the whole image.

    NYC teachers may toss out union leaders

    The country’s biggest teachers’ union may vote for a major change, but a three-way election is making the results hard to predict. Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien explain what’s at stake.

  • 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.

  • A flat field with trees on the right side and clouds in the sky. A purple filter over the whole image.

    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. 

Recent Articles

  • A small boat, packed with people, on the water. Dark green filter overlaying the photo.

    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.

  • A zoomed-in picture on the face of a statue of Lenin.

    Theory and the question of organization (part 2)

    Nate Moore examines the theory, practice, and crises of the British Socialist Workers’ Party and the International Socialist Organization (U.S.).

  • The perplexing smiles of the children of Palestine

    Poet and activist Marcellus Williams was murdered by the state of Missouri by lethal injection on September 24, 2024. In the last year of his life, among his poetry was this piece, written in solidarity with the people (and children) of Palestine, other victims of state sanctioned murder. Tempest re-runs the piece here in solidarity…

  • A watercolor illustration of an atomic bomb cloud emerging from the ground. The strokes are all black with a background of dark green.

    Nuclear Devastation

    David Friedman reviews Annie Jacobsen’s latest book, Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024).

  • A zoomed-in picture on the face of a statue of Lenin.

    Theory and the question of organization (part 1)

    Nate Moore argues that Lenin’s main contribution was not a theory of organization but in his attention to concrete social analysis—revolutionary theory that could inform strategy, tactics, and ways of organizing.

  • A photo of Dr. Steven Thrasher looking at the camera wearing a keffiyeh, transposed against the background of an arch at Northwestern University. Entire picture is tinted dark red.

    Support Dr. Steven Thrasher 

    Tempest encourages our members and supporters to sign the petition in support of Dr. Steven Thrasher.