New Articles

  • Rebuilding the Palestine Solidarity Movement

    Brian McDougall on behalf of the Tempest Collective Palestine Solidarity Working Group reflects on debates over strategy and tactics within the Palestine Solidarity Movement.

  • Making sense of Venezuela’s presidential elections

    Tempest’s Anderson Bean interviews Venezuelan socialist Gustavo Martinez from Marea Socialista about the July 28, 2024 elections.

  • Join Tempest at the Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago!

    Annabelle Guptill and  Natalia Tylim argue for the importance of the upcoming Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago.

  • U.S. politics today

    Ashley Smith discusses the U.S. presidential election and the limitations of lesser-evilism.

  • Lesser-evilism is not a vote–it’s a strategy

    Tempest’s Natalia Tylim explains how pinning our hopes on the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris against Trump is misguided and how the task is to build an infrastructure of resistance to both parties of capitalism and empire and make the case for a socialist horizon.

  • Palestine and political repression in Argentina

    Tempest’s Anderson Bean and brian bean sat down with Argentine left-wing political leader Alejandro Bodart to discuss his criminal case and the attempt to silence those who defend the Palestinian struggle and silence all criticism of the state of Israel and its policy of apartheid, settler-colonialism, and genocide.

Recent Articles

  • Nurses’ strike in New Brunswick, NJ

    Sam Friedman reports on a nurses’ strike in New Brunswick, NJ. over oppressive working conditions, including unsafe staffing levels.

  • What happened to the Left in the U.S. labor movement?

    The recent contract settlement between the Teamsters and UPS continues to spark debate and reflections on the Left. Tempest’s Joe Allen weighs in.

  • Two donkeys, one large and blue, a second smaller and red.

    The DSA moment is over

    Andy Sernatinger looks at the crisis facing the Democratic Socialists of America, arguing that DSA’s ‘moment’ has passed.

  • Socialism from below

    This talk by Anthony Arnove kicked off a NYC Tempest Collective discussion on  the theme of  “Socialism from Below.”

  • Racism, self-determination, and the dissolution of the Palestine working group

    The DSA voted to dissolve the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group (BDSWG) and force it into the International Committee despite protest from both groups. To ignore the gravity of this decision and its implications would be a disastrous mistake–a mistake reflected in the celebration of the new DSA leadership.

  • Speaking tour: Resisting Russian imperialism

    Four scholars and leftists from Ukraine and Russia will participate in a speaking tour with events in Chicago, New York, and Berkeley.

  • Did the DSA Convention Move Left?

    Andy Sernatinger analyzes the developments from DSA’s 2023 National Convention.

  • Starving Armenians and very tasty cookies

    The blockade is a form of terrorism, meant to drive people from their homeland. Starvation is a weapon of genocide, but for the moment Artsakh’s residents are doing everything they can to hold on.

  • Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965)

    On the 60th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Hank Kennedy tells the riveting story of a mostly unsung civil rights hero, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the KKK in 1965 and then smeared by the FBI and police.