New Articles

  • A health care worker treats another person in a space with signs reading "Welcome to Chiparawe Rapid Testing Center, on a pink background.

    Fatal abstractions

    There are effective vaccines for COVID-19 and effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but both remain global epidemics. Medical researcher Sam Friedman explains how the profit system is limiting the reach of life-saving medicines.

  • On the Chicago race for mayor

    Kirstin Roberts argues that given the stark political choice, the broad mobilization of left and movement forces in support of Brandon Johnson, and the groundwork laid over the last decade by union and social struggles in Chicago, the elections offer real opportunities for socialists committed to political independence.

  • Making sense of Chicago’s election

    Joe Allen sets the Chicago mayoral election in historical context and argues that the choice on offer, however stark, also reflects the political limits of the strength of the Left and our (social and trade union) movements.

  • The life and politics of Walter Rodney

    Tempest’s Anyanwu L. reviews A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney by Chinedu Chukwudinma.

  • A protester in front of a building stands behind others. They hold a sign reading "Drag Sets Our Imagination Free."

    Jackson Heights defends Drag Story Hour NYC!

    Tempest members Reuben Abitbol, Thomas Hummel, and Haley Pessin report on a successful campaign action last month in defense of Drag Story Hour NYC against far-right protesters.

  • Three signs in blue on white read UAW on strike in front of a sign reading MADE IN THE [American flag}.

    North Carolina’s factory boom

    National policy is spurring new investment in domestic factories, and North Carolina is one center of the boom. David Leon argues that the growth in factory jobs can enable new organizing and workers’ struggle—and that socialists have a key role to play.

Recent Articles

  • In you I trust

    A poem from Brian Young Jr. in recognition and celebration of the first Tempest Collective convention.

  • Hospital workers on sympathy strike

    Reviving the sympathy strike

    Emma Wilde Botta and Elizabeth Lalasz report on recent labor unrest at the healthcare giant Kaiser.

  • Palestine, Bowman, and the DSA

    brian bean argues for continuing to demand both the expulsion of Bowman and a renewed principled commitment to BDS from DSA and the entire U.S. Left.

  • Let this radicalize us

    Tempest Collective issues its official statement in response to the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal.

  • Apartheid is a red line

    Leandro Herrera argues why socialists cannot afford to compromise on solidarity with Palestine.

  • Five crises of capitalism

    A lightly edited version of a 15-minute talk by Ashley Smith for the Tempest convention on international perspectives.

  • Expel Jamaal Bowman

    Tempest Collective weighs in on the call from some within DSA to expel Jamaal Bowman from the organization.

  • Won’t go back

    Commentary and reports on the last couple of months of abortion justice organizing.

  • Welcome to the quagmire

    Kim Moody assesses the recent U.S. election results and highlights the strategic cul-de-sac facing those sections of the Left currently oriented on the Democratic Party, while pointing to “strike-tober” and the possibilities of a resurgent labor movement, as an alternative strategic focus.