New Articles

  • Two images overlap with one another. The left image is a vintage photo of Mussolini, dressed in army ware, inspecting the front of the Italian Saar troops, composed of grenadiers and carabinieri, in Rome on December 19, 1934. On the right, a photo of a press conference of multiple people dressed in suits. At the forefront stands Giorgia Meloni, speaking into a microphone of a press conference stand with an inscription saying ‘Presidenza Della Repubblica - Quirinale.’"

    Fascism in Italy today

    Last September a fascist party descended from Mussolini’s movement won election in Italy—a milestone in the advance of the far right internationally. Thomas Hummel examines the Italian situation and argues that united struggle can turn the tide.

  • In the top half of the photo, a large and concentrated amount of white apartment buildings engulf the top half of a tall and wide hill in the photo’s view. Part of the large hill below the buildings is undeveloped and rocky land. In the forefront, and lower half of the photo, a smaller hill is majority undeveloped land, composed of brownish-yellowish rocky terrain with a bit of grass and speckled with a couple of one to three floor buildings. It looks like there are layers in the hill which are most likely roads paved into the hillside. Some trees speckle the undeveloped parts of both hills.

    Gone is the law of the universe, scattered by frivolous fate

    Recent Israeli attacks in the West Bank follow a year of military escalation. Richard Seymour finds the roots of this surge in Palestinian resistance and Israeli class politics.

  • From below and to the left

    These two poems by former death-row prisoner Kenneth Foster, Jr., selected by Tempest member Dana Cloud, reflect on the interconnections among the carceral state, national oppression, war, racism, resistance, and revolution.

  • Russian words ‘цинк наш!’ graffitied on a white-painted outdoor wall about 12 ft tall. The letters are capitalized and are layered over graffitied images of coffins. There is a small graffiti signature of ‘Z.’ The forefront ground is dirt with some grass. The background shows a car, an apartment building and trees.

    We Say: War on War!

    A statement by the Émigré Branch of the Russian Socialist Movement on the anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

  • A collage in blue on red of an ambulance and nurses holding picket signs announcing that they are on strike.

    How NYC nurses won their strike

    Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld shares an account by NYSNA member Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez of how nurses organized themselves and their community ahead of the victorious NYC nurses strike.

  • An illustration of five nurses protesting outside and holding up various signs. The signs are cropped photos of some of the signs that NNU nurses held up during the January rallies. One sign reads: National Nurses Organizing Committee: SAFE STAFFING SAVES LIVES. Another reads: STAFF UP! FOR SAFE CARE. END CRISIS NOW. Another reads: PATIENT HEALTH BEFORE KAISER WEALTH. The last reads: UNSAFE STAFFING = INCREASED VIOLENCE. The illustration’s colors reflect the two main reddish and maroon colors of the NNU logo.

    You don’t want your nurse to be overworked

    Tempest member Snehal Shingavi spoke to four nurses in Texas who participated in rallies last month to protest understaffing at a number of major hospitals.

Recent Articles

  • Twenty years since 9/11

    On the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Phil Gasper explains the historical relationship between U.S. imperialism and the jihadist groups in the Middle East.

  • The outlines of opposition in a post-Trump U.S.A.

    Peter Ikeler assesses the multi-dimensional crises facing the U.S., the development of antagonistic social movements under the pressure of these crises, and offers some tentative strategic conclusions on the question of organization for the U.S. Left.

  • DSA sliding right under Biden

    Haley Pessin and Andy Sernatinger analyze the 2021 DSA Convention.

  • From militant to Washington insider

    Tim Goulet discusses the life and death of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.

  • Atlanta was a watershed

    Pranav Jani examines the new wave of organizing against anti-Asian racism and why the Left must deepen our understanding of its impact and origins as we strive to build solidarity.

  • Socialist strategy and the party

    Gilbert Achcar looks at the “broad party” question and its implications for socialist strategy today.

  • Never forget…Afghanistan

    Rory Fanning wishes he had heard a rallying cry through a bullhorn after 9/11 that opposed imperialist war rather than advocated it. He is now working to make sure young people hear those arguments before having to learn, like him, through the experience of service in U.S. empire’s wars.

  • Tempest Solidarity Agreement

    Over the course of our first year, the Tempest Collective has intentionally crafted structures and policies that we hope will facilitate a healthy and comradely political culture.

  • A history of revolutionary class struggle

    Steve Leigh reviews the new book The Fight for Workers’ Power by authors Mick Armstrong and Tom Bramble.