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  • A sidewalk shrine to those killed at Club Q with flowers, stuffed animals, and pride flags.

    Hang me with them in the Colorado Springs stars

    Tempest member William Gifisreflects on the recent mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.

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    Railroad Workers United open letter to Congress and the President

    Join the call to support railroad workers against Biden and the rail bosses.

  • A photo of the Russian participant and critic of the Russian Revolution Victor Serge, rendered in triplicate.

    Remembering Victor Serge

    Victor Serge participated in the Russian Revolution and observed it acutely. Theodor Lena pays tribute 75 years after Serge’s death.

  • Polarization and paralysis

    Now is the time for a critical assessment of the Left’s failed electoral strategy and the shift to a fundamentally different one—an orientation on the independent organization of class and social struggle.

  • Staughton Lynd

    Staughton Lynd (1929–2022)

    Eric Kerl offers his personal reminiscence of Staughton Lynd, who died on November 17 at the age of 92. The article first ran in the Haymarket Books blog.

  • Seizing the beans of production!

    Tempest members report from picket lines around the country on a one-day strike by Starbucks Workers.

Recent Articles

  • Council power in the Iranian labor movement

    Nasrin discusses how the memory of workers’ councils during the revolution of 1979 in Iran has shaped a new wave of class struggles in that country the last few years.

  • Monuments to oppression

    Bill Keach assesses the struggle to remove, relocate, and/or destroy certain monuments and statutes as both a reckoning with histories of racism and oppression and part of the process of envisioning a better future.

  • What is socialism from below?

    Sean Larson outlines different conceptions of socialism and asserts that only the self-emancipation of the working class can lead to the world we want.

  • The elephant (and the donkey) in the room

    Reflecting on the end of the election period, Luis Meiners compares the sharp attention to issues of empire paid by the U.S. establishment, with the relative silence on the part of much of the U.S. Left.

  • Islamophobia unleashed in France

    Sylvestre Jaffard, a member of the NPA, explains the context for the reactionary and Islamophobic backlash by the French government, following the murder of teacher Samuel Paty.

  • A very “American” coup

    Kit Adam Wainer argues that President Trump is in no position to steal an election or to lead a coup.

  • Fighting for the air we breathe

    Jessica Hansen-Weaver examines the larger implications of the recent surge of wildfires across the west coast.

  • The rank-and-file strategy goes to school

    New York City school teacher Peter Allen Lamphere explains the role of a rank and file caucus in advancing class struggles and shares some insights regarding recent socialist debates.

  • How rock became white (part 2)

    In the second of a three-part series, Geoff Bailey, looks at the process of cultural commodification and the racial politics of The Beatles, Motown, and the rise of Soul. Plus we listen to some great music…