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  • Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky!

    Support the campaign to free Boris Kagarlitsky.

  • UPS Teamsters on a practice picket

    What happened to the big UPS Strike?

    Can a union achieve a “historic victory,” a gamechanger in contract negotiations without an actual strike? Joe Allen writes on the tentative agreement between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and United Parcel Service (UPS).

  • Rock against capitalism

    Tempest’s Hank Kennedy introduces readers to the socialist punk band Redskins and encourages us to seek out their music.

  • Reject racist persecution by the Dominican government

    Dominican writers and activists have initiated an international call to condemn the racist repression of Haitian migrants—and also to boycott a book fair that is set to honor to apartheid Israel.

  • This is a war against the studios

    Tempest members Dana Cloud and Nina Lozano went out in support of a picket against Netflix in Hollywood, where they interviewed six actors and writers about their work and the demands of the strike.

  • The Writers Guild fights back

    Tempest member Eric Maroney sat down with Gabriela, an ally close to the Writers Guild of America strike, to talk about the strike action, what is at stake, and what it will take to win.

Recent Articles

  • Anti-choice bigots stopped in NYC

    Haley Pessin reports on this weekend’s victory by New York City for Abortion Rights.

  • Roe under attack, time to fight back!

    Tempest reports on abortion rights protests and upcoming actions around the country in response to the leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

  • Fighting for trans and queer liberation

    A transcript from the Tempest Collective sponsored panel on April 24, 2022.

  • Rally in defense of abortion and bodily autonomy

    Some 150 people rallied in Burlington, Vermont on the evening of May 3, 2002, at the Federal Building. The event was called by Planned Parenthood. The first speakers were Vermont Democratic Party Congressman, Peter Welch, and  Lt. Governor, Molly Gray, both remarking on the breathtaking and shocking nature of the Supreme Court’s draft decision, and…

  • The tragedy of Puerto Rico

    Rafael Bernabe situates the political challenges facing Puerto Rico and, through the lens of Lenin in 1905, calls for a more explicit focus on capitalism as the problem, and the need to “organize pessimism” to retrieve the kernel of hope necessary for the fights ahead.

  • Oakland teachers and ILWU strike against racism and gentrification

    Bill Balderston reports of labor actions in the East Bay, directed against school closures and gentrification. A show of solidarity in common struggles against gentrification and racism in Oakland.

  • What are the origins of May Day?

    Rosa Luxemburg on the origins of May Day as International Workers Day.

  • The Teamsters: A new era?

    Joe Allen examines the expectation and challenges facing the new leadership of the Teamsters.

  • Remembering an icon of the resistance to settler colonialism

    Brian Ward reviews David Correia’s new book on Larry Casuse and the struggle for Native liberation.