New Articles

  • Sudanese appeal for solidarity

    In recognition of the urgency of the situation in Sudan and in internationalist solidarity, Tempest reprints two items published by the MENA Solidarity Network.

  • The far right today

    Hard-right politicians and fascist street gangs pose growing threats to workers and the oppressed, argues Charlie Post, but they aren’t the same thing, and the Left needs different tactics to combat each one.

  • Justice for Joe Evica!

    Ben Ratliffe reports on the firing of OPEIU Local 39 Chief Steward Joe Evica in retaliation for union activity during an ongoing contract fight with CUNA Mutual Group.

  • “Trans bans” and “groomer panic”

    Dean O’Possum situates the recent wave of anti-trans attacks in the context of a broader pattern of moral panics whipping up right-wing forces against trans people and the Left more broadly.

  • Future on Fire

    Tempest members Ricardo Gabriel and Nevena Pilipović-Wenglerinterviewed David Camfield about his newest book, Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.

  • Yes, we do mean smash the state

    Announcing a Tempest Collective event on Sunday, April 23 at 2 pm featuring Tempest Collective member brian bean on smashing the state.

Recent Articles

  • Workers can lead against Covid-19

     A Tempest editorial calls for more collective action in defense of our health, our lives, and our well-being over business as usual.

  • Not essential? Brainerd grocery workers fight back

    Paul KD reports on a new contract for grocery workers at five stores in and around Brainerd, Minnesota.

  • Electoral advances for the revolutionary left in Argentina

    Natalia Tylim interviews Cele Fierro following an electoral breakthrough for the revolutionary Left in Argentina.

  • Not so…grrrrrrreat!

    The eleven-week strike against Kellogg’s ended on December 21 when workers represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers’ International Union (BCTGM) ratified the latest contract proposal (Agreement). The biggest issue for most of the 1,400 strikers was ending the longstanding two-tier wage and employment structure, which condemned a large part of the…

  • When Comic Books Threatened the U.S.A. (and the world)

    Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today.

  • Eleanor Marx and the case for Christmas trees

    Aaron Amaral on EP Thompson’s writing on Eleanor Marx and the meaning of the Christmas tree.

  • Building a mass movement with no apologism

    Within and outside DSA, many on the Left have aligned themselves with the Communist Party of China (CPC). Guest author Travis S. submitted this piece to Tempest in the interest of furthering debate on the question of how the left should relate to the CPC. He explores the contradictions and implications of tying the Left…

  • Nothing natural about this disaster

    Thomas Hummel discusses how climate change-fueled tornadoes and corporate greed caused the deaths of workers at Amazon and Mayfield Consumer Products in the Midwest.

  • What’s become of the rank and file strategy?

    Mel Bienenfeld traces the evolution of the debates around the rank and file strategy within New York City Democratic Socialists of America and DSA nationally.