Category: Article

  • Strategies of resistance 

    Strategies of resistance 

    A panel discussion on the Trump attacks, the beginnings to the organized mass response, and the strategic paths open to the resistance. 

  • Trump and the Billionaires

    Trump and the Billionaires

    DK Renton responds to Mel Bienenfeld, raising questions about how to understand the second Trump administration and its relationship to the capitalist class. 

  • Targeted scholars, targeted institutions

    Targeted scholars, targeted institutions

    A Tempest roundtable of scholars and activists on the federal and state-level assaults on higher education and strategies of fighting back.

  • We need to do this together

    We need to do this together

    Tempest member David Whitehouse discusses the resistance to Trump, the arrival of a constitutional crisis, and the need for independent, member-driven Left organizations to protect working people and the oppressed.

  • Lessons from the Quebec Amazon union campaign

    Lessons from the Quebec Amazon union campaign

    Amazon’s shutdown of its entire operation in Montreal is a historic moment for capital’s assault on workers and their ability to organize for dignity. The shocking and abrupt move needs to be seen within a broader context, writes Mostafa Henaway.

  • Death from above, resistance from below, in Ukraine

    Death from above, resistance from below, in Ukraine

    In the fourth straight year of Ukrainians defending themselves, Kris Parker writes that a new dynamic threat is rapidly developing under the guise of a Trump administration overtly sympathetic to the rightwing Putin regime and quickly moving to undermine Ukraine’s ability to defend itself.

  • Union days, sweepin’ the clouds away

    Union days, sweepin’ the clouds away

    Phoebe Gilpin, Senior Director of Formal Learning at Sesame Workshop, is part of the union organizing committee and one of the workers recently laid off. Gilpin spoke with Keith Rosenthal for Tempest Magazine about the struggle, how it transpired, and what comes next.

  • Ukrainian anarchists fighting imperialism and building mutual aid in wartime

    Ukrainian anarchists fighting imperialism and building mutual aid in wartime

    Robert Francis reports on Solidarity Collectives, a network of Ukrainian anarchists who are organizing on an anti-authoritarian basis and fighting on the frontlines against the Russian invasion. 

  • Walter Rodney: a revolutionary for our times

    Walter Rodney: a revolutionary for our times

    Presenting at the 2023 Socialism conference in a panel organized and moderated by Lee Wengraf, Robert Cuffy and Leo Zeilig examine the revolutionary legacy of Walter Rodney, casting light on his break with state socialism and his embrace of working-class struggles from below. What follows is a transcript of their talk, edited for length and…

  • 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.