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  • A mural of workers in a field. On the left and right are yellow and green stripes as borders.

    Immigrants Are Leaders in Our Class Struggle

    Avery Wear argues that immigrant workers are creating the first grassroots opposition to Trump’s second-term agenda and are critical to building an effective labor movement.

  • A photo of a keffiyeh with a red filter.

    A review of Palestine and Marxism

    brian bean reviews Joseph Daher’s new book Palestine and Marxism.

  • A picture of a person looking forward with a keffiyeh wrapped around their neck.

    Solidarity with Professor Joseph Daher

    Tempest joins the call for solidarity with Joseph Daher who is facing the loss of his job for his Palestine activism. We stand in full solidarity with all who are facing repression for their principled stand in opposition to the genocide in Gaza and for Palestinian liberation.

  • What’s next for the Syrian revolution?

    Video from a Tempest Collective sponsored roundtable discussion held earlier this month on the Syrian revolution.

  • 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. 

Recent Articles

  • 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.

  • How should socialists think about political tradition?

    Tempest’s David Camfield reviews the trove of theoretical resources available to us as we think about what traditions should inform our work.

  • Confronting the backlash

    In this transcript of a session at Socialism 2023, Tempest’s Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper discuss how socialists should challenge the backlash against the anti-racist uprising of the 2020s and argue that it takes a combined anti-racism and anti-capitalism to mount the necessary resistance.

  • Black Lives Matter and Palestine

    A transcript of Black Lives Matter and Palestine Solidarity Teach-In held in Seattle, Washington, February 1, 2024.

  • DSA’s budget crisis has been a long time coming

    Andy Sernatinger assesses the severe budget crisis that has surfaced within the  Democratic Socialists of America.

  • Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all Russian anti-war prisoners

    The case of Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky, in prison for opposing the war on Ukraine, may be up for appeal in early May. Tempest supports an urgent campaign for his release.