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  • Trapped in the Democratic Party

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith describes how Joe Biden’s economic program represents “imperialist Keynesianism” designed to rival China, ameliorate domestic social inequalities, and neutralize challenges from both the Left and the Trumpian right. The Left must build an alternative.

  • Are the Teamsters going red-hunting?

    Joe Allen highlights the barely-concealed red-baiting in a recent defense of the UPS Tentative Agreement from a Teamster National Bargaining Committee member.

  • War is hell

    Sam Friedman reviews the documentary film capturing the initial twenty days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the southeastern city of Mariupol.

  • a firefighter in front of a blazing fire

    The politics of degrowth

    Degrowth identifies and critiques growth as fundamental to the capitalist system. Growth enriches property owners and the wealthy, leaving the rest of humanity behind with devastating environmental consequences. Tempest member Paul Fleckenstein interviews Gareth Dale on the politics of degrowth and the critique of the ideology of growth in capitalist society.

  • Get ready for a fiery fall

    Tempest’s Dana Cloud surveys the year’s labor struggles in higher education and concludes that the moment may be right for another surge.

  • The statue of liberty in shadow on an orange background

    Bring us your huddled masses…we got something for ‘em

    Aaron Amaral reports on one of the latest of two hundred sites in New York City where newly arriving asylum seekers are being temporarily warehoused, and the contradictory community response.

Recent Articles

  • The fight back to defend abortion rights begins

    Tempest follows up on last week’s series of reports from the front with additional abortion rights protests and more upcoming actions this weekend around the country in response to the leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

  • Next steps to regain abortion rights

    Even though popular support for abortion rights stands at more than two-thirds, the Supreme Court seems dead set on overturning Roe v. Wade. Haley Pessin and Natalia Tylim look at why this majority hasn’t ruled in official politics and the kind of organizing it will take to turn things around.

  • The left wing of the possible?

    Bill Keach reviews A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism by Doug Greene.

  • Relief, anti-climax, and glimmers of hope

    Sylvestre Jaffard analyses last month’s election results in the French presidential election, including the prospects for a rejuvenated Left challenge in the June legislative vote.

  • 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.