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Marxist theory
Who and what is the ruling class?
In part two of “Who and What is the Working Class,” Josh On discusses the relationship between the market and the state. Part one is here.
Theory and the question of organization (part 2)
Nate Moore examines the theory, practice, and crises of the British Socialist Workers’ Party and the International Socialist Organization (U.S.).
Theory and the question of organization (part 1)
Nate Moore argues that Lenin’s main contribution was not a theory of organization but in his attention to concrete social analysis—revolutionary theory that could inform strategy, tactics, and ways of organizing.
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Race, black liberation, & anti-racism
A racist counter-offensive in Texas
Interview with Joshua Hamilton on the attacks on DEI in the Texas higher-education system.
The history (and present) of anti-Haitian racism in the Dominican Republic
Tempest interviews Ingrid Luciano and Amaury Rodriguez, on the history of racist violence against Haitians and black Dominicans, in the Dominican Republic and its current, frightening resurgence.
Answering the call to fight injustice
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews groundbreaking Black feminist Barbara Smith about uprisings both present and past.
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Democratic Socialists of America
DSA never recovered from Bowman
Andy Sernatinger looks at the numbers and diagnoses DSA’s rise and slide.
DSA’s budget crisis has been a long time coming
Andy Sernatinger assesses the severe budget crisis that has surfaced within the Democratic Socialists of America.
DSA after the 2023 convention
The window for revolutionaries in the DSA is still open, if “open” means the opportunity to work with other socialists in the unions and movements, to win a layer of activists to revolutionary politics, and to advance the projects of left and revolutionary regroupment, argue Tempest members Giselle Gerolami, Ron Lare, and Peter Solenberger.
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Gender Identity & Queer Politics
Defending trans students in NYC schools
Educator Danielle Bullock reports on the struggle to defend transgender students, arguing that solidarity among teachers, transgender students, activists, and community members will be crucial for NYC to remain a progressive oasis in Trump’s America.
Gruesome George Galloway and the Paris Olympics
Hank Kennedy writes on the transphobia of once-prominent British leftist, George Galloway.
Political economy of passing
In recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance and Transgender Awareness Week, Eric Maroney meditates on what it means to be Black and transgender in white-supremacist, capitalist society. In spite of carceral logics and practices alongside intimately felt gender discipline, Maroney finds reason for hope in queer and abolitionist kinship.
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Internationalism
What’s next for the Syrian revolution?
Video from a Tempest Collective sponsored roundtable discussion held earlier this month on the Syrian revolution.
How Chinese and African organizers came together to protest an oil pipeline
Zhang Mazi explains how Chinese and African activists against an oil pipeline build transnational solidarity against international capitalist exploitation.
Report from Bogotá
Joel Sronce reports on a major Palestine solidarity demonstration by workers and the Left in Colombia.
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Labor
Immigrants Are Leaders in Our Class Struggle
Avery Wear argues that immigrant workers are creating the first grassroots opposition to Trump’s second-term agenda and are critical to building an effective labor movement.
Notes on the ILA tentative agreement and the end of the strike
Kim Moody offers some initial thoughts on the settlement of the East Coast strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the role of the Biden Administration.
Jane McAlevey, 1964-2024
Paul K.D. pays tribute to labor organizer and scholar, Jane McAlevey
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Palestine
A review of Palestine and Marxism
brian bean reviews Joseph Daher’s new book Palestine and Marxism.
Solidarity with Professor Joseph Daher
Tempest joins the call for solidarity with Joseph Daher who is facing the loss of his job for his Palestine activism. We stand in full solidarity with all who are facing repression for their principled stand in opposition to the genocide in Gaza and for Palestinian liberation.
Campus policing today
University of Texas professor Karma Chávez describes a new era of campus collaboration with police.
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Marxist Classics
A new era of labor revolt (1966)
In the mid-1960s, in the midst of Black urban revolt and radicalization on campuses, the U.S. working class was supposedly bought off and inactive. Worker-revolutionary Stan Weirdisagreed. In this 1966 speech, he detailed the broad stirrings of a rank and file rebellion—a revolt with roots in unbearable workplace conditions and a deep feeling that “something’s…
What are the origins of May Day?
Rosa Luxemburg on the origins of May Day as International Workers Day.
The ABC of national liberation movements
In the thick of the Vietnam War, Hal Draper penned a set of theses about how socialists should approach questions of imperialism, war, and national liberation. With a new introduction by Sam Farber.
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