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  • The cause of labor is the hope of the world

    The working class has a unique power in struggles against oppression, exploitation, and war—the power to strike. May Day is a time to test and build that power, writes the Tempest National Committee.

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    The Tribune gets it wrong on the CTU

    brian bean challenges a hit piece against the Chicago Teachers Union in the Chicago Tribune and argues for an expansive view of education for social justice. He urges participation in the day of action in Chicago (and around the world) on May 1.

  • Searching for international solidarity

    Alex de Jong reviews the memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, a Filipino revolutionary and member of the “General Command” of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s.

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    Dismissing China’s repression in Xinjiang

    Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak recently defended China’s policy toward ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang. David Brophy exposes the weakness of their case.

  • A group of police officers with batons in front of a burning building.

    ICE and the Police State

    Tempest interviews Alec Karakatsanis and brian bean about ICE, the police state, and the tasks for abolitionists today.

  • A photo of a line of people at a checkpoint. In front of it, the book cover for "No neutrals there."

    U.S. Labor’s long history of Zionism

    Paul Fleckenstein reviews No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, documenting U.S. Labor’s historical complicity in Zionist settler colonialism and outlining opportunities for labor in the United States to move toward advancing, rather than suppressing, Palestinian liberation.

Recent Articles

  • A blue-filtered photo of the back of a crowd holding anti-ICE signs in front of a building.

    The January 30 general strike: A success even if it wasn’t a strike

    When mass outrage broke out against ICE repression in January, Somali students in Minneapolis called for nationwide walkouts on January 30. Whether the result was a strike or not, says Frances Bolger, this well-timed call gave students and others around the country a chance to make important strides in self-organization.

  • A photo of Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores edited in front of a map of Venezuela.

    In the time of predators

    In this interview translated by Hector Rivera, Antoine Larrache asks Franck Gaudichaud about his analysis of events in Venezuela and Latin America.

  • A yellow-filtered photo of an empty classroom.

    Public education under attack

    NYC public school teacher Danielle Bullock discusses the “shock and awe” school reform of the Trump era with teachers from Oklahoma, Kansas, Florida, and Iowa.

  • A map of Iran and Iraq with two red pins in the map.

    Iran’s liberators and their ledger books

    Sirantos Fotopoulos picks apart the reasons for the assault on Iran.

  • A green and red filtered photo of a crowd marching with signs written in Arabic.

    The Kurds and the Syrian revolutionary process

    Joseph Daher writes about the evolution of Kurdish politics after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and argues that the liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular classes as a whole are bound together.

  • A pink-filtered photo of a hospital building overlayed with outlines of people carrying signs.

    We are not the same nurses who went out on strike

    An interview with three rank-and-file strike leaders from the recently concluded nurses strike in New York City.

  • A photo of a wall covered in anti-war graffiti. A child walks in front of it.

    No war on Iran!

    A Tempest National Committee statement of unconditional opposition to the war mongering of Trump, his threats against Iran, and the bipartisan project of U.S. imperial hegemony.

  • A black and white photo of a battle in the street between striking workers with pipes and police officers.

    What does internationalism mean today?

    Working people, wherever they are in the world, have common interests. Our loyalties should be to the working class everywhere, not to any nation, argues David Camfield.

  • Ukraine still stands

    A solidarity statement on the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion by the Ukraine Solidarity Network – U.S.