New Articles
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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This is what solidarity looks like!
Alex Schmaus interviews UTLA member Thalía Cataño and SEIU Local 99 member Rosalba Romero— both of whom work at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles—about the successful strike in March.
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May Days
May 1 is International Workers’ Day. In this short essay, Joe Allen recounts the experience of the walking tour at Chicago’s Haymarket Square, where there is a monument to the May 1, 1886 uprising and the bloody confrontation on May 3 between police and workers–and ultimately, the execution of four militants involved in the uprising.
Recent Articles
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CTU is defining the parameters of the possible
Two reports on the impact of the CTU job actions this past week.
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The U.S. left at a strategic impasse
Charlie Post and Ashley Smith argue for a new orientation for the U.S. Left.
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The Haitian migration crisis
A transcript of a November roundtable discussion on the Haitian migration crisis.
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Capitalism isn’t coming to save us
Tempest Collective members Ricardo Gabriel, Thomas Hummel, and Adam Turl offer three different takes on the disaster movie Don’t Look Up.
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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.
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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.
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Electoral advances for the revolutionary left in Argentina
Natalia Tylim interviews Cele Fierro following an electoral breakthrough for the revolutionary Left in Argentina.
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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…
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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.