New Articles
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Solidarity against Anti-Palestinian hate crimes
Paul Fleckenstein interviews Wafic Faour and Ashley Smith, two organizers with the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation.
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Palestine 101
A Tempest Collective event last month featured Tempest members brian bean, Sherry Wolf, and Shireen Akram-Boshar discussing “75 years of colonialism, imperialism, and resistance” in Palestine.
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Report from the West Bank
Najla K. and brian bean report on the state of resistance in the West Bank after October 7.
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Who should run hospitals?
Tempest’s Sam Friedman reports on conversations with striking nurses at RWJBarnabas, who are drawing the conclusion that health care workers, not corporations, should run our hospitals.
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In defense of school busing
This fall, PBS released a feature-length documentary titled The Busing Battleground. On the occasion of the documentary release, Tempest Magazine is reprinting this article and updated introduction, originally published with Jacobin Magazine.
Recent Articles
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Victory in Ohio?
Joe Allen analyzes the Ohio Teamsters’ electoral strategy in Ohio and its endorsement of the right-wing Republican, incumbent Governor, Mike DeWine.
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Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?
A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.
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When Iran is free
Amid ongoing protests following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amin in September while in Iranian police custody for several days after being arrested by the morality police, Fred, an Iranian socialist, analyzes the government’s harsh response, the different ideological factions that are within the “woman, life, freedom” movement, and where these opposition…
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Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, #FreeThemAll
brian bean and Shireen Akram-Boshar report on the campaign, during COP27, to save Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
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Voices from Ukraine & Russia
The Real News Network, in partnership with Haymarket Books, hosts a panel with Ukrainian and Russian activists and academics.
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Shitstorming the opposition
Dean O’Possum writes about a far-right effort to attack a local Drag Story Time event in Eugene, Oregon and the ideological landscape in which transphobic legislation, online conspiracies, and hate speech targeting trans youth must be understood, organized against, and resisted. Excerpt: Dean O’Possum writes about a far-right protest against a Drag Story Time event…
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Kanye, Kyrie, and the continuum of antisemitic violence
Naomi Bennet addresses the antisemitic social media outbursts by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving and places them in the context and continuum of the wider growth of antisemitism, cultivated within ruling class and right-wing media and politics.
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Ujima’s plan to transcend neoliberalism in Maryland
Phillip Clark writes about the Ujima People’s Progress Party, an independent third-party led by Black workers in Baltimore, Maryland,and its ongoing initiative to get on the ballot this election cycle.
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Why we need a planned economy
Common wisdom, even among socialists, is that large-scale economic planning doesn’t work. Avery Wear reviews three key texts on the question and argues that planning is not only feasible but necessary.