New Articles

  • For an end to last-gasp liberalism

    Sarang Narasimhaiah calls for a break with the deeply ingrained but unacknowledged principles and protocols of liberalism and the organization of an independent left alternative.

  • Grief, mourning, and solidarity

    Sarah Jaffe discusses grief, Palestine, and the pandemic in an interview about her recent book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

  • Navigating the storm, rebuilding the fightback

    Help support the Tempest Collective and Tempestmag.org by donating to our fundraiser.

  • Santa Socialism

    John Lang explores what it means to engage in wishful thinking about political change.

  • Rosa Luxemburg’s war against cynicism

    Sean Larson reviews the newest volume in The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.

  • Uprising for democracy in the Caucasus

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith and Posle Media’s Ilya Budraitskis interview Georgian activists and scholars Ia Eradze, Luka Nakhutsrishvili, and Lela Rekhviashvili about the roots of the uprising, its trajectory, and Georgia’s place in global capitalism and the imperialist order.

Recent Articles

  • Toward a free Palestine

    The current struggle for Palestinian liberation marks a turning point in world politics, argues this Tempest Collective editorial.

  • Is a new political cycle opening in Chile?

    Franck Gaudichaud and Pablo Abufom report on a second constitutional referendum held this past December in Chile to replace the Pinochet-era constitution for the country. This time around Chilien voters rejected a proposed right-wing constitution after the defeat of a more progressive constitution in a 2022 referendum.

  • Argentina general strike

    Sergio García reports from the massive general strike of January 24, 2024 against the radical neoliberal austerity measures being proposed by the new far-right government of Javier Milei.

  • What it means to say Trump will govern like a fascist

    David Renton argues the answer to Trump’s potential election is not to minimize the risk posed by Trump but to insist that our organizing is the only protection against the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and worldwide.

  • Vermonters’ solidarity with Palestine

    A new statewide coalition, Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, has formed with eight sponsoring groups.

  • Taiwan’s 2024 presidential elections

    Brian Hioe and Wen Liu analyze the recent national elections in Taiwan and their significance for domestic politics  and the country’s relationship with China.

  • Bolshevism Mystified

    In a new book, Russia scholar Lars Lih sees a basic continuity in Bolshevism from 1903 to Stalin. John Marot argues that party history was marked instead by major turns—first toward socialist revolution and later a break away from it.

  • The war in Ukraine

    Oleksandr Kyselov writes about what solidarity looks like for the international Left with the Ukrainian people and the Ukraine Left in their resistance against Russian imperialism.

  • From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime

    On November 2, 2023, Haymarket Books and the Ukraine Solidarity Network hosted a forum on the connection between the occupations and wars in Ukraine and Palestine facilitated by Ashley Smith and featuring Dana El-Kurd, Daria Saburova, Ramah Kudaimi and Joseph Daher.