New Articles

  • 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.

  • Lenin: Catastrophe and revolution

    Paul Le Blanc in conversation with Promise Li and Cliff Connolly about the legacy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks explored through Leblanc’s recent book Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution.

  • Perspectives on Russian imperialism

    Ilya Budraitskis offers an update and perspective on the current political situation in Russia and its ongoing imperialist war in Ukraine.

  • The United States’ home-grown fascist

    Tempest member Hank Kennedy surveys the life and career of Catholic priest Charles Coughlin who was commonly known as Father Coughlin, a prominent and influential Nazi sympathizer who promoted antisemitic and pro-fascist views.

Recent Articles

  • Russian words ‘цинк наш!’ graffitied on a white-painted outdoor wall about 12 ft tall. The letters are capitalized and are layered over graffitied images of coffins. There is a small graffiti signature of ‘Z.’ The forefront ground is dirt with some grass. The background shows a car, an apartment building and trees.

    We Say: War on War!

    A statement by the Émigré Branch of the Russian Socialist Movement on the anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

  • A collage in blue on red of an ambulance and nurses holding picket signs announcing that they are on strike.

    How NYC nurses won their strike

    Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld shares an account by NYSNA member Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez of how nurses organized themselves and their community ahead of the victorious NYC nurses strike.

  • An illustration of five nurses protesting outside and holding up various signs. The signs are cropped photos of some of the signs that NNU nurses held up during the January rallies. One sign reads: National Nurses Organizing Committee: SAFE STAFFING SAVES LIVES. Another reads: STAFF UP! FOR SAFE CARE. END CRISIS NOW. Another reads: PATIENT HEALTH BEFORE KAISER WEALTH. The last reads: UNSAFE STAFFING = INCREASED VIOLENCE. The illustration’s colors reflect the two main reddish and maroon colors of the NNU logo.

    You don’t want your nurse to be overworked

    Tempest member Snehal Shingavi spoke to four nurses in Texas who participated in rallies last month to protest understaffing at a number of major hospitals.

  • Nazi symbolism superimposed upon an image of the U.S.Capitol.

    DC’s friends of fascism

    Hank Kennedy uncovers a domestic history of fascist supporters in the halls of powers and finds a line of continuity and important comparisons to this generation of Washington D.C. ultra-reactionaries.

  • blurred images of tents and protest signs on behalf of non-tenure-track faculty

    Faculty unionization and the legacy of Blackburn:

    Howard University faculty members Sean Pears and Jacob Sloan describe how student militancy fueled struggle on the part of non-tenure-track faculty.

  • A large pink fish containing a school of small fish labeled rank and file democracy eats fish representing business and electoral unionism and money on blue-green background.

    Toward a rank-and-file caucus in UCU

    Dan Davison makes the argument for a rank-and-file strategy given the state of the higher education strikes in the United Kingdom and the debates within the University and College Union.

  • People stand witnessing the rubble of a building destroyed by the earthquake.

    The earthquake in Türkiye and Syria

    On Monday, February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (followed by another earthquake of 7.5 magnitude) struck southern Türkiye and northwest Syria in the early hours of the morning. Tempest Collective member Shireen Akram-Boshar explains that this tragedy is fundamentally political, affected by the fault lines of counterrevolution, authoritarianism, racism, and capitalism.

  • A multi-colored collage of signs, many of the signs read "TAs & RAs ON STRIKE!" repeated multiple times in a green background with black text, and others have red signs, some of them read "RESPECT US RESPECT OUR STUDENTS" and others have the message "TEMPLE WORKS BECAUSE WE DO."

    Graduate workers strike at Temple!

    Tempest’s Joel Sronce interviews two striking graduate workers from Temple University.

  • A democratic party donkey and a two-horse emblem of the Teamsters Union are in shadow behind the Chicago skyline in a blue on yellow image.

    Building Teamster Power?

    The Teamsters say they are going in a new progressive direction in the U.S. labor movement, yet, Joe Allen explains, there is little evidence of that in the role they are playing in Chicago’s current municipal elections.