New Articles

  • Two illustrations sit side-by-side. The left illustration shows a punctured pipeline, with oil spilling out and covering grassy land and plants. Two workers' helmets float at the edges of the oil spill. Smoke arises from three oil frackers lining the horizon. In one of the smoke clouds, it reads ‘CAPITALISM.’ And in the oil spill, it reads ‘HURTS THE WORKER. HURTS THE PLANET.’ The right illustration shows a collage of imagery representing things harming the world with things that could help the world. This includes a sunflower plant destroying a bomb, plants growing out of a police car, mushrooms growing out of a spilled bucket of toxic liquid, a person holding a sword and wearing a t-shirt that says DEMILITARIZE.

    Anti-lamentation

    In this poem, Tempest member Sam Friedman considers how, through collective work, we can resist the apocalyptic threats of capitalism.

  • Health care concessions in the NYC public sector?

    Robert Cuffy and Peter Allen-Lamphere argue that the heralded citywide contract is anything but a victory for New York City public sector workers.

  • Resisting the backlash

    A Tempest Collective event on Sunday, March 26 at 2 pm EDT.

  • Two comic book covers featuring the superhero Marshal Law

    Remembering Marshal Law

    Tempest’s Hank Kennedy pays tribute to the radical comic book artist Kevin O’Neill, who died last November.

  • Princeton graduate workers are fighting like tigers for a union

    Tempest member Promise Li reports on the recently announced union card campaign launched last month by PGSU at Princeton University.

  • A protester on a yellow background stands in a field holding a sign reading DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST.

    They gave their life to Stop Cop City

    Tempest member Leandro Herrera speaks with an Atlanta Forest defender about Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (aka Tortuguita), a beloved activist part of the Stop Cop City campaign who was murdered by police in January.

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    Simo Dorn reviews books by Noam Chomsky and Andreas Malm addressing the question, how can the climate movement win? 

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    Joseph Daher analyzes the current situation in Sudan after the military-backed coup last month.

  • Striketober

    Joe Allen looks at the realities of the recent strike waves, including a number of “no” votes on contract ratification, and the role and meaning of worker solidarity for socialists.

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    D.A. Wood reflects on the ideology that underpins the hospital.

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  • Takeaways from the NYC-DSA convention

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    brian bean analyzes the refusal of several socialist elected officials to oppose Israel’s settler colonialism and discusses implications for socialist strategy.