Category: Article

  • Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender

    Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender

    Sean K. Isaacs reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism

  • Real freedom means having no fear

    Real freedom means having no fear

    Public defender Pauloma Martinez delivers a May Day call to action at the Queens Criminal Courthouse.

  • Rebuilding the left as Germany turns right

    Rebuilding the left as Germany turns right

    In an interview, Martin Haller, the Chief Editor of marx21.de, explains the state of politics in Germany which has simultaneously witnessed: a large rise in support for the far right Alternative for Germany; a new right-led government shattering taboos and preparing to re-arm Germany; and the resurgence of Germany’s Left party (Die Linke).

  • Nationalism, workers’ power, and the myth of auto tariffs

    Nationalism, workers’ power, and the myth of auto tariffs

    Andy Sernatinger argues that Shawn Fain and the UAW’s pro-tariff stance misses the real threats to autoworkers and the role the union can play in resisting these threats.

  • Building power now!

    Building power now!

    Lizartistry has created a new share-able ‘zine that speaks to the disillusionment with electoral politics and offers a vision of how to build political power from the perspective of socialism from below. 

  • In honor of May Day

    In honor of May Day

    On May 1, the day honoring the international working class struggle, the Tempest National Committee calls for labor mobilization and ongoing organizing against the Trump agenda.

  • Madness as method

    Madness as method

    Thomas Hummel argues that Trump’s tariff policy is a desperate gamble to re-establish U.S. world dominance.

  • Understanding the cynical efforts to dissolve UAWD

    Understanding the cynical efforts to dissolve UAWD

    Tempest asked Andrew Bergman, Nevena Pilipović-Wengler, Toly Rinberg, and Judy Wraight, long standing organizers within UAWD, about the recent proposal, originating with a section of the UAWD leadership, to liquidate the important rank and file caucus. A key vote will take place on Sunday. They provide some basic background and explain the principled importance for…

  • Listening to Victor’s Children 

    Listening to Victor’s Children 

    Tempest interviews David Camfield about his podcast Victor’s Children and its role in promoting the politics of socialism from below. 

  • Within and without?

    Within and without?

    BC Hamilton explains that Zohran Mamdani’s bid for mayor represents the ongoing battle and committed political tactics of the DSA’s inside-out approach. This is the playbook that Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Mamdani have stuck with: democratic socialists who run as Democrats and, when they win, continue to operate within the Democratic Party, forming a left wing…