New Articles

  • Yale students take over Beinecke (Gaza) Plaza

    Tempest interviews Elisa Miah, a student organizer for Palestine on the campus occupation by Yale students inspired by the Columbia University encampments to demand Yale divest from arms manufacturing.

  • Trump’s danger isn’t that he’s a fascist

    Dan Davison and Sacha Marten argue that Donald Trump is best understood as oscillating in a middle space between conventional Republicans and the fascist right.

  • Bangladeshis march for Gaza

    Ganesh Lal reported briefly on May 4 from Dhaka, Bangladesh and followed up soon after to provide context. Today (May 9), organizers plan to march to the U.S. embassy.

  • Palestine solidarity on two Southern California campuses

    While pro-Palestine encampments sprung up at major universities across the United States, Héctor Rivera and Dana Cloud found spirited, inspiring protests on their own campuses, Pasadena City College and California State University, Fullerton.

  • SF educators strike for Palestine

    Alex Schmaus reports on labor actions for Palestine in the Bay Area and one high school that educators shut down on May Day.

  • Palestine and the Arab Revolution

    A panel discussion featuring revolutionaries from around the region talking about the inextricable ties between Palestinian liberation and liberation across the region, and its special relevance in this crucial historic moment.

Recent Articles

  • Three people are shown from behind holding up signs toward oncoming traffic along a wooded street. One holds a cane, one is in a wheelchair, and the third has no assistive devices.

    The political economy of disability

    In this first article of two on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Keith Rosenthal explains how the category of disability and oppression based on ability are rooted in the capitalist economic system.

  • Building a mass movement to stop Cop City

    Erwin Freed of Workers’ Voice writes on the ongoing struggle against the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, which has become a front-line battle against the carceral state.

  • The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.

    Brendan Stanton interviews Justin Akers Chacón, a socialist based in San Diego. Akers Chacón campaigns for worker and immigrant rights in the U.S.-Mexico border region and is the author of The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the U.S.-Mexico Border.

  • Essential Uprising

    In “Essential Uprising,” Demetrius Noble urges workers to organize to demand an end to alienation and the meeting of basic human needs.

  • Organizing for union democracy

    Tempest member Nevena Pilipović-Wengler interviews Tempest members Ron Lare (Local 600), Judy Wraight (Local 600), Ye-Eun Jong (Local 2710), Toly Rinberg (Local 5118), and Andrew Bergman (Local 5118) about their history-making rank-and-file caucus UAWD in the UAW.

  • UPS part-time wage cuts

    In this response to Joe Allen’s article On the Brink? The Teamsters and UPS, Dom Belcastro details part-time wage cuts.

  • Reflections on Emily the Criminal

    Samuel Farber reviews the film Emily the Criminal and its portrayal of a sympathetic working-class person forced into a life of crime.

  • One year after Dobbs

    A Tempest Collective event on Sunday, May 28 at 2 pm EDT

  • On The Brink?: The Teamsters and UPS

    Joe Allen discusses whether UPS Teamsters will strike this summer.