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Marxist theory
How should socialists think about political tradition?
Tempest’s David Camfield reviews the trove of theoretical resources available to us as we think about what traditions should inform our work.
In Memoriam: John Molyneux
Tempest member Phil Gasper discusses the work and politics of the prominent and dedicated British Marxist John Molyneux.
The making of a Black Bolshevik
Bill Mullen argues that McKay deserves a good Marxist biographer and has found one in Winston James.
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Race, black liberation, & anti-racism
Answering the call to fight injustice
Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews groundbreaking Black feminist Barbara Smith about uprisings both present and past.
Confronting the backlash
In this transcript of a session at Socialism 2023, Tempest’s Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper discuss how socialists should challenge the backlash against the anti-racist uprising of the 2020s and argue that it takes a combined anti-racism and anti-capitalism to mount the necessary resistance.
Black Lives Matter and Palestine
A transcript of Black Lives Matter and Palestine Solidarity Teach-In held in Seattle, Washington, February 1, 2024.
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Democratic Socialists of America
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.
The DSA moment is over
Andy Sernatinger looks at the crisis facing the Democratic Socialists of America, arguing that DSA’s ‘moment’ has passed.
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Gender Identity & Queer Politics
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.
The continuing relevance of Beyond a Boundary
Joel Sronce describes the continuing relevance and insight of C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary.
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Internationalism
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.
Time for DSA’s internationalists to show solidarity with Ukraine
Tempest reader John Lawrence writes in support of amendments to DSA convention proposals on internationalism and Ukraine solidarity.
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Labor
Jane McAlevey, 1964-2024
Paul K.D. pays tribute to labor organizer and scholar, Jane McAlevey
Québec public sector workers mobilized for better wages and working conditions
Union activist Benoit Renaud reports and reflects on the recent victory of Québec public workers.
Subjects of the algorithm
Alice Lea writes of their experience as a cog in the Amazon machine.
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Palestine
Rebuilding the Palestine Solidarity Movement
Brian McDougall on behalf of the Tempest Collective Palestine Solidarity Working Group reflects on debates over strategy and tactics within the Palestine Solidarity Movement.
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.
Palestine and political repression in Argentina
Tempest’s Anderson Bean and brian bean sat down with Argentine left-wing political leader Alejandro Bodart to discuss his criminal case and the attempt to silence those who defend the Palestinian struggle and silence all criticism of the state of Israel and its policy of apartheid, settler-colonialism, and genocide.
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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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