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  • Far-right surges, but left surprises, in German elections

    Sean Larson analyses the outcome of last month’s German elections. 

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    The radical roots of harm reduction

    Even the best accounts of the movement for harm reduction leave out the role of Marxists, anarchists, and other radicals. Sam Friedman sets the record straight.

  • So-called axis of resistance  

    Iran has been attempting to achieve a regional balance of power against Israel and the U.S. as well as pursue its own military and economic aims in the region. The regime views any challenge to its influence in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip, whether from below by popular forces or from Israel, other…

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    Trump’s anti-immigrant push 

    Aly Wane predicts what’s coming for immigrants in the Trump era.

  • Each blow against oppression advances us all

    The Tempest National Committee argues that struggles against oppression are an essential part of class struggle and charts a political alternative that rejects the dead-end of class reductionism.

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    Scholasticide at the American Historical Association 

    Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision. 

Recent Articles

  • Answering the call to fight injustice

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews groundbreaking Black feminist Barbara Smith about uprisings both present and past.

  • Rosa Luxemburg and the democratic road to socialist revolution 

    John Marot explains how Luxemburg’s ideas of revolutionary democracy developed in light of the German Revolution.

  • Pretty sure this FedEx job will kill me

    Conditions at FedEx have always been brutal, but as Malli Nath writes, climate change is making a bad situation more dangerous.

  • Resisting authoritarianism in the Caucasus

    In this joint interview conducted on behalf of Tempest and Posle Media, Georgian activists and scholars Ia Eradze, Giorgi Kartvelishvili, Luka Nakhutsrishvili, Tamar Qeburia, and Lela Rekhviashvili answer questions about the roots, nature, and trajectory of the country’s social movements and the future of Georgia.

  • BDS is about justice, not antisemitism

    Historian Barnaby Raine examines the myths Israel creates in order to perpetuate its occupation of Palestine – including the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

  • In bird flu, capitalism is the culprit

    Sam Friedman discusses the role of capitalism in the H5N1 virus’s potential to mutate and become a pandemic.

  • The (not so) new red scare

    Dana Cloud describes the crackdown on scholars in the Cal State system as an example of the broader pattern of weaponizing the charge of “antisemitism” against faculty and students who have spoken out against the Zionist genocide in Gaza.

  • Who and what is the ruling class?

    Josh On discusses who makes up the ruling class and how they maintain their rule.

  • The Left and U.S. politics today

    The International Socialist League interviewed Tempest member Aaron Amaral about the state of U.S. politics today and the role of a radicalizing Left in responding to economic crisis, the presidential elections, the labor movement, and the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.