New Articles

  • Venezuelan ambitions and Guyanese oil

    Dan Davison analyzes the recent referendum, called by President Nicolas Maduro, which appears to provide the pretext for Venezuela to annex two-thirds of Guyana in pursuit of its oil resources.

  • Report from Bogotá

    Joel Sronce reports on a major Palestine solidarity demonstration by workers and the Left in Colombia.

  • What solidarity requires

    brian bean replies to Mel Bienenfeld’s criticism of two earlier Tempest articles by the author on the analysis and posture of revolutionary socialists towards the events of October 7 in Palestine.

  • Kissinger’s bloody legacy

    Anderson Bean reflects on the destructive legacy of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who died last month at the age of 100 years old.

  • Argentina: from Pink Tide to reactionary wave

    Tempest interviews Cele Fierro about the recent elections in Argentina and the presidential victory of far right candidate Javier Milei.

  • Global crises and global revolts

    In this talk delivered last September at the Socialism Conference, Tempest member Shireen Akram-Boshar describes how multiple global crises and revolts signal rising popular rage against the neoliberal capitalist order. Because neoliberalism has eviscerated resources for care and social reproduction, feminist insurgency is especially important.

Recent Articles

  • After the rail fiasco

    Joe Allen explains that Biden’s blatant strike-breaking in the imposition of an unpopular contract on rail workers with the support of the DSA “Squad” is a betrayal and a political blunder.

  • graffiti on a rail car

    The DSA caboose

    Andy Sernatinger looks at the votes by members of the “the Squad” for a Congressional bill that forces a contract on rail workers and what the stakes are for DSA and the Left.

  • The front of a six-story office building withe the words I.G. Metall over the front door facing a Berlin street.

    Organize, Fight, Win

    Evan DeMers reports on rank-and-file strategy discussions and debates among German workers at a recent conference.

  • A sidewalk shrine to those killed at Club Q with flowers, stuffed animals, and pride flags.

    Hang me with them in the Colorado Springs stars

    Tempest member William Gifisreflects on the recent mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.

  • support railroad workers

    Railroad Workers United open letter to Congress and the President

    Join the call to support railroad workers against Biden and the rail bosses.

  • A photo of the Russian participant and critic of the Russian Revolution Victor Serge, rendered in triplicate.

    Remembering Victor Serge

    Victor Serge participated in the Russian Revolution and observed it acutely. Theodor Lena pays tribute 75 years after Serge’s death.

  • Polarization and paralysis

    Now is the time for a critical assessment of the Left’s failed electoral strategy and the shift to a fundamentally different one—an orientation on the independent organization of class and social struggle.

  • Staughton Lynd

    Staughton Lynd (1929–2022)

    Eric Kerl offers his personal reminiscence of Staughton Lynd, who died on November 17 at the age of 92. The article first ran in the Haymarket Books blog.

  • Seizing the beans of production!

    Tempest members report from picket lines around the country on a one-day strike by Starbucks Workers.