New Articles

  • Essential Uprising

    In “Essential Uprising,” Demetrius Noble urges workers to organize to demand an end to alienation and the meeting of basic human needs.

  • Organizing for union democracy

    Tempest member Nevena Pilipović-Wengler interviews Tempest members Ron Lare (Local 600), Judy Wraight (Local 600), Ye-Eun Jong (Local 2710), Toly Rinberg (Local 5118), and Andrew Bergman (Local 5118) about their history-making rank-and-file caucus UAWD in the UAW.

  • UPS part-time wage cuts

    In this response to Joe Allen’s article On the Brink? The Teamsters and UPS, Dom Belcastro details part-time wage cuts.

  • Reflections on Emily the Criminal

    Samuel Farber reviews the film Emily the Criminal and its portrayal of a sympathetic working-class person forced into a life of crime.

  • One year after Dobbs

    A Tempest Collective event on Sunday, May 28 at 2 pm EDT

  • On The Brink?: The Teamsters and UPS

    Joe Allen discusses whether UPS Teamsters will strike this summer.

Recent Articles

  • Ukraine shows the urgency for an anti-war movement

    In the face of daily news out of Ukraine, Joe Allen writes on the recent history of the anti-war movement to explain its current weak state, and to point to the urgency of rebuilding it.

  • Inside the Kazakhstan revolt

    The uprising of January 2–8, 2022 was a revolt against inequality, unemployment, and the looting of the country, Kazakh socialist Aynur Karamov explains.

  • This isn’t normal

    An upcoming Tempest Collective event on the role of capitalism in exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • From union to workers’ council

    Avery Wear argues that rank and file workplace organization can offer a path to revolutionary workers’ power.

  • Taking on the Philippine axis of evil

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews activist and author Waldon Bello about the situation in the Philippines and his run for vice president in the May 9 election.

  • Socialism & the Kitchen Sink

    Camila Valle presents a crossword for the left.

  • CTU in the crosshairs

    Joe Allen looks at the recent attacks on the Chicago Teachers Union, and its democratically elected leadership, by the mainstream press, big business, and elements of the Democratic Party.

  • The best offense is more clinic defense

    An abortion provider discusses the tactic of clinic defense, and why it’s necessary to defend abortion rights.

  • No war in Ukraine!

    A Tempest editorial argues that building a movement that can challenge the main enemy at home, to defeat imperialism globally, must be based on solidarity from below, and unwavering opposition to all ruling class adventurism and imperial war-mongering internationally.