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  • Solidarity with Argentine Palestine activists

    Tempest encourages its readers to sign the solidarity petition in support of Alejandro Bodart, a leader of the International Socialist League in Argentina, facing criminal prosecution as a result of his Palestine activism.

  • The Lavender program

    Djuna Schamus details the dangerous artificial intelligence and mass surveillance tools Israel is lethally deploying against Palestinians under the Lavender program.

  • Claudia Sheinbaum and Mexico’s new regime in formation

    Héctor Rivera discusses the meaning of Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory in Mexico and takes a critical look at the new regime in formation in Mexican politics.

  • The U.S. hurtles toward political crisis

    Ashley Smith analyzes the impact of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on the deepening political crisis in the U.S.

  • Jane McAlevey, 1964-2024

    Paul K.D. pays tribute to labor organizer and scholar, Jane McAlevey

  • The far right is defeated in France

    Tempest re-runs the statement of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA)/New Anti-capitalist Party on the results of Sunday’s national elections.

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  • The statue of liberty in shadow on an orange background

    Bring us your huddled masses…we got something for ‘em

    Aaron Amaral reports on one of the latest of two hundred sites in New York City where newly arriving asylum seekers are being temporarily warehoused, and the contradictory community response.

  • Perspectives for socialists today

    In this talk delivered in June 2023 at the Tempest NYC Marxism day school, Natalia Tylim explains the importance of revolutionary organization and suggests directions for Tempest today. This is the second in an ongoing series of articles from our regional Marxism schools that took place earlier this summer. It has been lightly edited for…

  • ”Indigenous communities are leading the struggle in Jujuy”

    This summer, the province of Jujuy in Argentina exploded in protest against constitutional reforms with the indigenous communities at the forefront. The backdrop to this conflict is an anti-imperialist fight for control of the country’s resources. Warren Montag, Jimena Vergara, and Joseph Serrano interview Argentinian socialist activist and professor Gastón Remy.

  • Why don’t they just negotiate?

    In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman observes the limits of pacifism while children die and catastrophe looms.

  • Their indoctrination and ours

    As the right wing tries to impose restrictions on what can be taught, Tyler Thier says that educators should fight back by exposing students to deliberately provocative material.

  • Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky!

    Support the campaign to free Boris Kagarlitsky.

  • UPS Teamsters on a practice picket

    What happened to the big UPS Strike?

    Can a union achieve a “historic victory,” a gamechanger in contract negotiations without an actual strike? Joe Allen writes on the tentative agreement between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service (UPS).

  • Rock against capitalism

    Tempest’s Hank Kennedy introduces readers to the socialist punk band Redskins and encourages us to seek out their music.

  • Reject racist persecution by the Dominican government

    Dominican writers and activists have initiated an international call to condemn the racist repression of Haitian migrants—and also to boycott a book fair that is set to honor to apartheid Israel.