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  • Making sense of Chicago’s election

    Joe Allen sets the Chicago mayoral election in historical context and argues that the choice on offer, however stark, also reflects the political limits of the strength of the Left and our (social and trade union) movements.

  • The life and politics of Walter Rodney

    Tempest’s Anyanwu L. reviews A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney by Chinedu Chukwudinma.

  • A protester in front of a building stands behind others. They hold a sign reading "Drag Sets Our Imagination Free."

    Jackson Heights defends Drag Story Hour NYC!

    Tempest members Reuben Abitbol, Thomas Hummel, and Haley Pessin report on a successful campaign action last month in defense of Drag Story Hour NYC against far-right protesters.

  • Three signs in blue on white read UAW on strike in front of a sign reading MADE IN THE [American flag}.

    North Carolina’s factory boom

    National policy is spurring new investment in domestic factories, and North Carolina is one center of the boom. David Leon argues that the growth in factory jobs can enable new organizing and workers’ struggle—and that socialists have a key role to play.

  • 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.

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  • Rust Belt socialism?

    Thomas Hummel explores the politics of the upcoming Buffalo mayoral election and the potential socialist mayor, India Walton.

  • Takeaways from the NYC-DSA convention

    Hakan Yilmaz reports on the 2021 Convention for the NYC Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.

  • Made in the U.S.A.

    Ashley Smith assesses the Biden Administration’s response to the recent wave of Haitian refugees and finds 200 years of racist history playing out in a south Texas border crossing.

  • Iron Dome’s Deadly Lessons

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

  • Alone in a crowd

    Emma Wilde Botta and Natalia Tylim argue that the October 2 Women’s March was a missed opportunity to build a socialist defense of abortion rights.

  • Occupy Wall Street goes national

    Tempest Collective members reflect on the ten year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.

  • Die Linke: seven theses on the way forward

    Marx 21, the revolutionary socialist network within the German Left Party, Die Linke, provides its analysis of the September elections in Germany.

  • Meet the new boss—same as the old boss

    Tara Olivetree Ehrcke analyzes Canada’s recent snap election and why so little was on offer for the Left and social movements.

  • Being a socialist means being pro-abortion

    Moira Geary explains why abortion rights are facing their most dire setback to date and what socialists can do to defend them.