New Articles

  • Making sense of the Ukraine war

    Eric Draitser critically reviews War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies, which, he argues, sees the entirety of the conflict through the lens of U.S.-NATO aggression without making even a perfunctory attempt to engage with the many other critical aspects of the war.

  • Stills of a video of the police shooting of an Oklahoma meatpacking worker at Seaboard Foods.

    Cop murder on the production line

    Paul KD reports on the police murder of 26-year-old Sudanese immigrant Chiewelthap Mariar on the floor of the Oklahoma meatpacking plant where he was working.

  • international days of protest against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.

    Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

    Tempest Collective member, Ashley Smith, interviews Ivan Ovsyannikov, a Russian journalist, leftist activist, and trade union organizer on the international days of protest on January 19 through 24, 2023  called against Putin’s imperialist war in Ukraine and political repression in Russia.

  • Nzoy, a young Black man, looks contemplative in this portrait. He wears a ball cap. The image is purple on a green background.

    Racism has no borders

    On August 30, 2021, Roger Wilhelm, a 37-year-old Black man–known to friends and family as “Nzoy”–was killed by police in Morges, Switzerland. Tempest members William Gifis and Haley Pessin talked to Evelyn Wilhelm, who is Nzoy’s sister and runs the Justice 4 Nzoy Switzerland campaign to win justice for her brother.

  • Report from the Front: Rally in Pilsen

    Joe Allen reports on a tax-Amazon rally in his Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen and nearby Little Village.

  • Cartoonish arms and hands holding sledgehammers and roses smash a police station and a military facility.

    Revolution means smashing the state

    Any responsible approach to overcoming capitalism, argues brian bean, must grapple with the need to dismantle the capitalist state and replace it with our own democratic institutions from below.

Recent Articles

  • The market compels it

    Restaurant worker Natalia Tylim discusses the experience of restaurant reopening in New York City this winter before broad vaccine distribution.

  • Worker and popular education

    Avery Wear and James Boyle discuss the massive adult education system organized by the U.S. Left in the early 20th century.

  • Strange alchemy

    Andy Sernatinger and Emma Wilde Botta critique a strategy popular among leaders of Democratic Socialists of America that places socialist politics inside the Democratic Party.

  • San Francisco educators endorse BDS

    Alex Schmaus and brian bean report on the first public school educators union in the U.S. to endorse boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli apartheid.

  • Confusion is not a path forward

    Joe Allen critically examines Chris Maisano’s recent piece, “US-China Tensions Are Escalating. What Does That Mean for the Left?” and is left with more questions than clarifying answers.

  • Imperialist Keynesianism

    Ashley Smith contextualizes the Biden administration program, and argues that it represents a Keynesian break from decades of neo-liberal policy. However, it is a break driven in the first instance by the imperative to rehabilitate the profitability of U.S. capitalism and U.S. imperial power.

  • View from the warehouse floor

    Malli Nath writes of their experience as a Texas Fed Ex warehouse worker in light of the murders at an Indianapolis warehouse, the failed BAmazon organizing effort, and popular cultural representation of logistics work.

  • A truck full of sensors

    A Teamster in Oklahoma City describes how UPS uses new surveillance technology to undermine the union.

  • The Black Legion and beyond.

    Hank Kennedy looks at the history of far right organizing in Michigan and the meaning of its recent resurgence.