New Articles

  • Celebrating pride month

    In this Tempest editorial, Eric Maroney for the Editorial Board explains why Stonewall and its legacy remain important to our understanding of queer resistance-more than ever at a time when LGBTQIA people find themselves under attack.

  • Reflections on the Oakland teachers’ strike

    Bill Balderston assesses the challenges and victories of the Oakland educators strike.

  • Time for DSA’s internationalists to show solidarity with Ukraine

    Tempest reader John Lawrence writes in support of amendments to DSA convention proposals on internationalism and Ukraine solidarity.

  • It’s a smaller world in DeSantis’ Florida

    Eric Maroney provides an analysis of the response to the ongoing wave of attacks against queer and trans youth in the U.S. with a focus on Florida governor and recently announced presidential candidate Ron DeSantis.

  • Vote no and fight for more

    Five years ago, New York City forced its teachers to take cuts in health coverage. This year they’re offering a sub-inflation raise. Keegan O’Brien calls for a NO vote and explains how to build a fight to win more.

  • Three people hold up signs on a tree-lined street. One is standing with the assistance of a cane, one is in a wheelchair, and the third is apparently unassisted.

    Disability justice movements: history and practice

    In this second article of two (the first is here) on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Dana Cloud and Nina Lozano explore the history of social movements by people with disabilities and suggest lessons for socialist practice today.

Recent Articles

  • Russia out of Ukraine!

    Tempest Collective statement in opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Erin Cass writes on behalf of the Steering Committee.

  • Defeating the legacy of Pinochet

    Joaquín Araneda and Luis Meiners situate the recent electoral breakthrough for the Left in Chile in both the recent insurrectionary uprising of October 2019, and the longer term processes in Chile  from the Pinochet dictatorship, and the period of custodial democracy from 1990 to 2021.

  • Against Purgatory

    Adam Turl responds to Bhaskar Sunkara’s “The Left in Purgatory” , the lead editorial in the recent print issue of Jacobin, No. 44, Winter 2022.

  • Striking back! Labor strategy in the pandemic

    This is a lightly edited transcript of the panel on labor struggle and strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the Tempest Collective. It features Elizabeth Lalasz, Kirstin Roberts, Kim Moody, and Joe Burns, and is chaired by Paul KD.

  • 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.