New Articles

  • A silhouetted group of students walking, with a green filter over the image.

    A racist counter-offensive in Texas 

    Interview with Joshua Hamilton on the attacks on DEI in the Texas higher-education system.

  • Notes on the ILA tentative agreement and the end of the strike

    Kim Moody offers some initial thoughts on the settlement of the East Coast strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the role of the Biden Administration.

  • 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.

Recent Articles

  • Solidarity against Anti-Palestinian hate crimes

    Paul Fleckenstein interviews Wafic Faour and Ashley Smith, two organizers with the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation.

  • The Legacy of October 7

    Mel Beinenfeld assesses the Hamas attack of October 7 and its consequences.

  • Palestine 101

    A Tempest Collective event last month featured Tempest members brian bean, Sherry Wolf, and Shireen Akram-Boshar discussing “75 years of colonialism, imperialism, and resistance” in Palestine.

  • Report from the West Bank

    Najla K. and brian bean report on the state of resistance in the West Bank after October 7.

  • Who should run hospitals?

    Tempest’s Sam Friedman reports on conversations with striking nurses at RWJBarnabas, who are drawing the conclusion that health care workers, not corporations, should run our hospitals.

  • In defense of school busing

    This fall, PBS released a feature-length documentary titled The Busing Battleground. On the occasion of the documentary release, Tempest Magazine is reprinting this article and updated introduction, originally published with Jacobin Magazine.

  • A response to Jonah ben Avraham’s “Support Palestinians when they fight…”

    Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom respond critically to a recent article by Jonah Ben Avraham.

  • Political economy of passing

    In recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance and Transgender Awareness Week, Eric Maroney meditates on what it means to be Black and transgender in white-supremacist, capitalist society. In spite of carceral logics and practices alongside intimately felt gender discipline, Maroney finds reason for hope in queer and abolitionist kinship.

  • Academics protest Gaza genocide, face a clampdown on academic freedom

    Tempest member Dana Cloud reports on the breakout of Palestine solidarity in an unexpected space–the annual convention of the National Communication Association.