Author: Natalia Tylim

  • Postal workers under attack and in struggle

    Postal workers under attack and in struggle

    Natalia Tylim interviews letter carrier and National Association of Letter Carriers leader Melissa Rakestraw about a bad contract and the attacks on postal workers by the Trump Administration.

  • Join Tempest at the Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago!

    Join Tempest at the Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago!

    Annabelle Guptill and  Natalia Tylim argue for the importance of the upcoming Socialism 2024 Conference in Chicago.

  • Lesser-evilism is not a vote–it’s a strategy

    Lesser-evilism is not a vote–it’s a strategy

    Tempest’s Natalia Tylim explains how pinning our hopes on the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris against Trump is misguided and how the task is to build an infrastructure of resistance to both parties of capitalism and empire and make the case for a socialist horizon.

  • Weathering the storm

    Weathering the storm

    Kirstin Roberts and Natalia Tylim report of the 2024 Tempest convention held in Chicago over the long weekend of February 17-19.

  • Perspectives for socialists today

    Perspectives for socialists today

    In this talk delivered in June 2023 at the Tempest NYC Marxism day school, Natalia Tylim explains the importance of revolutionary organization and suggests directions for Tempest today. This is the second in an ongoing series of articles from our regional Marxism schools that took place earlier this summer. It has been lightly edited for…

  • The blush is off the rose

    The blush is off the rose

    Ahead of the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2023 Convention, Natalia Tylim assesses the state of the organization.

  • Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century

    Revolutionary Socialist Organizations in the 21st Century

    Panelists on Tempest’s Building the Revolutionary Left Today panel present the questions and takeaways from their experiences in the revolutionary Left.

  • Through DSA’s looking glass

    Through DSA’s looking glass

    Jen Bolen from Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) National Political Committee (NPC)  describes the story behind the controversial grievance report by the NPC regarding violations of the grievance policy during and beyond the 2021 DSA Convention.  

  • After Roe

    After Roe

    In an editorial for the Tempest Collective, Natalia Tylim offers a perspective for the Left following the loss of abortion rights in the Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

  • Next steps to regain abortion rights

    Next steps to regain abortion rights

    Even though popular support for abortion rights stands at more than two-thirds, the Supreme Court seems dead set on overturning Roe v. Wade. Haley Pessin and Natalia Tylim look at why this majority hasn’t ruled in official politics and the kind of organizing it will take to turn things around.