New Articles

  • “We’re all here for the same reason”

    Naomi Bennet and Amber Boardman are Ohio-based socialists working to defend queer communities from fascist violence and they discuss the lessons of the past several months and the new challenges facing anti-fascists around the country.

  • Resisting the backlash

    Speakers on the Tempest Panel “Resisting the Backlash, Defending Black Studies” look to educator organizing and labor movements in higher education as inspiring sites of struggle to defend Black studies against the right-wing backlash.

  • A rocky road on the upward path of labor action

    Kim Moody looks at the changing economic, internal union, and political contexts for workers whose contracts expire this year and argues that intransigent employers will face a union workforce with years of accumulated grievances, a cost-of-living crisis, and a rebellious rank and file. We can expect major struggles in 2023. This offers a huge opportunity…

  • It’s OK to be angry about Bernie Sanders’ new book

    Tens of thousands of activists were inspired to join socialist Bernie Sanders’ campaigns for president in 2016 and 2020. Shamus Cooke reviews Bernie’s latest book and argues that the Sanders project of shifting the Democratic Party leftward has squandered the movement in a time of crisis and need.

  • 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.

Recent Articles

  • 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. 

  • Which strategy for the climate movement?

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

  • After the coup in Sudan

    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.

  • The contradictions of William Z. Foster

    Avery Wear analyzes the tensions within the political life and writings of William Z. Foster.

  • Commie musings from the bedside

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