New Articles

  • 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.

  • Banking failures and a system in crisis

    Thomas Hummel examines the recent run of bank failures and finds a system riven by crisis and contradictions.

  • The dialectics of defeat—lessons from the United Kingdom

    Aaron Amaral reviews Michael Chessum’s book This is Only the Beginning.

Recent Articles

  • Solidarity with Sawant

    On behalf of the Tempest Collective, William Gifis calls for solidarity with Kshama Sawant in the December 7 recall election.

  • Do comrades cross picket lines?

    brian bean responds to Hadas Thier’s article in Jacobin,  “No, DSA Shouldn’t Expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman”.

  • Four distinct approaches to revolutionary organization

    A slightly edited version of a short talk by Aaron Amaral on perspective for the revolutionary Left, given at the 2021 Tempest Convention.

  • The Teamster Election

    Joe Allen explains the prospects for the Teamsters in the aftermath of the most recent Union election.

  • 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.