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  • Campus policing today

    University of Texas professor Karma Chávez describes a new era of campus collaboration with police.

  • A person holds a sign written in Russian.

    Imperial poison in Russian politics

    As we approach the three year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleg Shein, a Russian historian, and a former MP in the Russian State Duma, assesses the impact on Russian politics both now and for its future. 

  • After the South Korean coup attempt

    Hong Myungkyo explains the reason why martial law was rescinded was because of the citizens’ resistance to it, and the reason why state violence under martial law was not implemented as Yoon had hoped was because there remains, in South Korean society generally, a living memory of recent and successful democratic struggles, a history of…

  • Women’s liberation and the fight against the Trump regime

    Linda Loew replies to the Tempest editorial from January 2025 highlighting the misogynistic attacks on women and bodily autonomy and the centrality of these struggles to an anti-capitalist resistance to the Trump regime.

  • Trump seizes power in D.C.

    Unlike eight years ago, there is little protest against Trump, who seems all-powerful. But his administration will be prevented from establishing stable rule by its deep internal divisions, policies that will exacerbate not solve the country’s problems, and its tendency to overreach and impose deeply unpopular policies. All of this will inevitably trigger resistance.

  • Drawing of a person wearing a mask leaning over and holding the earth.

    Pandemic futures

    Sam Friedman, Sara Johnson and Karyn Pomerantz report on the threat of a Bird Flu pandemic, analyzing capitalism’s failures in mitigating pandemics like COVID-19. They argue for a socialist vision of public health that prioritizes the well-being of people, the welfare of animals and a commitment to protect the environment.

Recent Articles

  • Palestine solidarity on two Southern California campuses

    While pro-Palestine encampments sprung up at major universities across the United States, Héctor Rivera and Dana Cloud found spirited, inspiring protests on their own campuses, Pasadena City College and California State University, Fullerton.

  • SF educators strike for Palestine

    Alex Schmaus reports on labor actions for Palestine in the Bay Area and one high school that educators shut down on May Day.

  • Palestine and the Arab Revolution

    A panel discussion featuring revolutionaries from around the region talking about the inextricable ties between Palestinian liberation and liberation across the region, and its special relevance in this crucial historic moment.

  • Degrowth and revolutionary socialism

    Tempest’s Paul Fleckenstein reviews Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto and argues that an ecosocialist future depends on mass social and class struggle.

  • The Israel-Iran theater show–a distraction from Gaza genocide 

    Michael Karadjis explains how the recent interchange of missiles between Israel and Iran was an episode of theater distracting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and leaving Israel more powerful.

  • Southern autoworkers on the rise

    Workers at six Daimler Truck plants in the South were set to strike when Joel Sronce interviewed UAW members and their supporters in North Carolina.

  • The bipartisan attack on immigrants

    Dana Cloud sat down with immigration justice activist Aly Wane to discuss how Democrats and Republicans, despite differences in rhetoric, have the same border agenda.

  • Freedom for Cuban political prisoners

    A press release from the FIT-U on a recent meeting between deputies and leaders of the FIT-U and the Cuban Ambassador to Argentina.

  • Erdoğan’s colossal defeat in Turkey — and a new hope

    Hakan Yilmaz reports on the electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP) in last month’s Turkish municipal elections and argues that the Left’s victory hints at a completely new balance of forces in which movements from below can be revived.