Category: Editorial

  • The cause of labor is the hope of the world

    The cause of labor is the hope of the world

    The working class has a unique power in struggles against oppression, exploitation, and war—the power to strike. May Day is a time to test and build that power, writes the Tempest National Committee.

  • We can’t vote our way out of this mess

    We can’t vote our way out of this mess

    The Tempest National Committee looks to the emergence of mass protests as the way to challenge Trump’s authoritarianism.

  • Mamdani and the tasks for NYC socialists 

    Mamdani and the tasks for NYC socialists 

    After much collective discussion and debate, the New York City Tempest Collective Organizing Committee here explains the local’s approach to the Mamdani campaign. This includes recognizing the acute need for collective organizing beyond the campaign to win crucial reforms, including those promised by Mamdani, and to defend ourselves against the coming attacks from the right,…

  • “The starvation of Gaza is not a glitch in the system”

    “The starvation of Gaza is not a glitch in the system”

    brian bean, writing for the Tempest National Committee, calls out the crocodile tears of the U.S. ruling class over the starvation of Gaza, and calls for an immediate response to the starving and a broadening of the movement against the genocide and the system behind it.

  • Which way forward for the resistance?

    Which way forward for the resistance?

    The Tempest Collective argues that now is the time to throw ourselves into movements opposing President Trump and argue for the politics of solidarity.

  • 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.

  • Free, Free Mahmoud Khalil!

    Free, Free Mahmoud Khalil!

    Tempest calls for the defense and release of Columbia Palestine activist Mahmoud Kahlil, ground zero for increasing attacks by the Trump administration on campus activism, the Left, and the working class.

  • Each blow against oppression advances us all

    Each blow against oppression advances us all

    The Tempest National Committee argues that struggles against oppression are an essential part of class struggle and charts a political alternative that rejects the dead-end of class reductionism.

  • Trump and his oligarchs (back) at the gate  

    Trump and his oligarchs (back) at the gate  

    On the brink of the second Trump presidency, Tempest offers this editorial statement on the current moment and the tasks ahead.

  • When the circus leaves town

    When the circus leaves town

    The Tempest National Committee argues that while there is little to nothing that the socialist movement can do now to challenge the right-wing visions on offer in the 2024 U.S. elections, a serious reckoning with how we got here and the post-election tasks of the Left is critical to raising our collective horizons beyond the…