New Articles

  • Gaza and the struggle for Palestine

    A Haymarket Books event co-sponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest and more.

  • Israel promises war crimes

    Keith Rosenthal looks at Israel’s open intent to create a catastrophe in Gaza—and the hypocrisy of U.S. rulers.

  • The continuing relevance of Beyond a Boundary

    Joel Sronce describes the continuing relevance and insight of C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary.

  • Sixty-seven days on strike

    Tempest’s Sam Friedman reports on an ongoing strike by nurses at RWJBarnard Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.

  • Revolutionaries and reformist organizations

    At the annual Socialism 2023 conference in Chicago, Tempest was invited to debate Left Voice over the question of revolutionaries and revolutionary organization and their relationship with efforts to build broad Left parties. This article is the entry into this debate by Tempest Collective member Aaron Amaral.

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    Breakout from Gaza

    The armed strike by Gazan forces into Zionist-occupied Palestine is a daring attempt to push back against escalating settler violence and oppression. brian bean explains.

Recent Articles

  • The rise and fall of progressivism in Latin America

    Anderson Bean reviews The Impasse of the Latin American Left, a new book by Frank Gaudichaud, Massimo Modones, and Jeffery R. Webber on the experience of the Latin American Left, over the last couple of decades, in and out of power.

  • Sri Lanka’s democratic revolution

    Months of protests brought down Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last month. Scholar-activist Rohini Hensman situates this victory as one step in a protracted struggle for democracy in Sri Lanka.

  • Competing visions of the BDS Boston Mapping Project

    Naomi Bennet critically unpacks the controversy over the BDS Boston Mapping Project.

  • The Vietnam War in comics, after the war

    In the follow-up to an earlier article looking at the representation of the Vietnam War in mainstream U.S. comics, Hank Kennedy focuses on the years following the formal conclusion of the war.

  • Dropping like flies

    Joe Allen shares stories of UPS drivers endangered by the lack of air conditioning in delivery vehicles and the company’s failure to respond.

  • In the struggle for abortion rights, capitalism is the enemy

    Nancy Welch of the Tempest Collective and Upper Valley for Abortion Rights delivered these remarks on the fight to rewin abortion rights at a recent meeting of Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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    Origins of the rank and file strategy

    Kim Moody, a veteran of the International Socialists, explains the roots of the rank and file strategy in the Marxist tradition and how the International Socialists (U.S.) tried to put it into practice by diving into the rank and file rebellions of the 1970s.

  • A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney

    A presentation by Chinedu Chukwudinma at a Tempest panel event on June 22, 2022.

  • Why we are going to Socialism 2022!

    Three comrades from the Tempest Collective – Phil Gasper, Haley Pessin, Natalia Tylim – offer their reminiscences of the annual Socialism Conference and motivations for everyone to attend this year’s event over Labor Day, September 2-5, 2022.