New Articles

  • The Left under Brandon Johnson

    brian bean argues the need for independent organizing and struggle under Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago

  • We demand justice for Jordan Neely

    In an editorial on behalf of the Tempest Collective, Haley Pessin looks at the conditions that led to the murder of Jordan Neely, an unhoused Black man who was choked to death on May 1 while riding the New York City subway.

  • re: notice of rent increase

    In this poem, Michelle Everette explores how it hurts to be poor.

  • Fascism, the far right, and the threat to democracy

    Naomi Bennet responds to Charlie Post on how to understand the relationship between the electoral far right and fascist forces and what this means for threats to bourgeois democracy and the strategies for the Left.

  • “The Generals’ fight for power is not our fight”

    Shireen Akram-Boshar and brian bean interview Muzna Alhaj, a member and organizer of a Khartoum Resistance Committee, about the escalating armed conflict between rival factions of the ruling junta and its impact on the revolutionary dynamic in Sudan.

  • Build healthy communities, not prisons

    A transcript of a speech last month by Jayna Ahsaf, an organizer with the Vermont chapter of the FreeHer campaign from the abolitionists group the National Council speaking to activists on the need for a long-term campaign to abolish prisons and fund people and healthy communities.

Recent Articles

  • Bloody Sunday

    On the 50th anniversary of the massacre of innocent civil rights protestors in Derry, Joseph Healy remembers 50 years of British injustice in Ireland.

  • Black Panther Party on the role of Black Democrats

    Kathleen Cleaver speaks on behalf of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1968.

  • In defense of Critical Race Theory

    This is a lightly edited transcript of a panel on Critical Race Theory organized by the Tempest Collective.

  • DSLC: Isn’t democracy power?

    Paul KD and Natalia Tylim provide the Tempest perspective on recent developments with the DSA’s Democratic Socialist Labor Commission.

  • Social movements are how classes struggle

    Tempest reprints a piece by Colin Barker that argues social movements are essential vehicles of the class struggle.

  • Learning from the 1960s

    A lightly edited reprint, from the 1998 issue of the New Socialist, of an article by Mike Parker on the lessons of the 1960s.

  • Strike back! Labor strategy in the pandemic

    An announcement for a Tempest Collective hosted event, January 30, focused on labor strategy in the pandemic.

  • Roe under attack

    Tempest editors provide a roundup of recent articles on the subject of abortion rights for this anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision

  • BNSF Railway strike authorization request

    TJ Johnson reports on a change in attendance policy that could lead to a potential strike by BNSF railway workers.