New Articles

  • Strike Ready?

    Tempest member Joe Allen explores the role of the Left in preparing for the potential Teamsters strike this summer.

  • Three people are shown from behind holding up signs toward oncoming traffic along a wooded street. One holds a cane, one is in a wheelchair, and the third has no assistive devices.

    The political economy of disability

    In this first article of two on disability justice and socialism, from a roundtable held at Socialism 2022, Keith Rosenthal explains how the category of disability and oppression based on ability are rooted in the capitalist economic system.

  • Building a mass movement to stop Cop City

    Erwin Freed of Workers’ Voice writes on the ongoing struggle against the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, which has become a front-line battle against the carceral state.

  • The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.

    Brendan Stanton interviews Justin Akers Chacón, a socialist based in San Diego. Akers Chacón campaigns for worker and immigrant rights in the U.S.-Mexico border region and is the author of The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the U.S.-Mexico Border.

  • 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.

Recent Articles

  • 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.

  • 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.