Tempest is co-sponsoring this meeting on the uprising in Bolivia

New Articles from Tempest for 06/22/2026

"Our participation was extremely important both for the Palestinian movement and for Ukrainian society. It is an expression of genuine internationalism."

"Revolutionary forgiveness for Renton is a political and ethical practice in which perpetrators of social wrongs are only forgiven once the social relations that allowed those harms to occur have been (or are in the process of being) transformed."

New Articles from Tempest for 06/15/2026

"UAWD has worked to mold itself into something that stands in contrast to much of today’s structured labor organizing efforts: avowedly militant, steeped in broad class solidarity, and focused first and foremost on workers themselves."

The history of the Anti Nazi League holds valuable lessons for fighting the far right today

"A revolutionary socialist party is an organization that actually organizes a substantial portion of the most militant and radical working-class people in a given society and an organization that has the ability to influence the course of social and class struggles."

New Articles from Tempest for 06/08/2026

"Developing organs of working-class struggle, self-organization, and self-education, which have always been helped along in one way or another by socialists, is still crucial."

"The April meeting in Tijuana created a place for union workers from Los Angeles and San Diego to meet union workers on the Mexican side and learn about labor issues that affect workers on both sides of the border."

Vladimir Putin’s regime is beginning to show signs of frailty amidst its ongoing imperialist war on Ukraine. Kyiv has fought the regime to a standoff, Russia’s casualties mount to about 1.2 million dead and wounded, and Russia’s economy faces mounting problems.

As the mother of the wrongly convicted death row prisoner Rodney Reed, Sandra spent decades both fighting for her son’s freedom while calling attention to the barbarity and racism of the U.S. criminal injustice system.

New Articles from Tempest for 06/01/2026

Juniper Blessing was an accomplished singer and a college sophomore who wanted to study hurricanes because of her concern about the climate crisis. She was brutally murdered on May 10.

"The leveraging of traditionalist domestic ideals to nurture white supremacist and nativist agendas is inseparable from the gendered pro-natalist language that blames women for social decline."

New Articles from Tempest for 05/25/2026

Tempest members report on May Day protests around the country

Shireen Akram-Boshar pays tribute to Muzan Alneel

New Articles from Tempest for 05/18/2026

Sign this letter in support of NYC home care workers as they struggle against hyper-exploitation, including a regime of 24-hour shifts for 13 hours’ pay

"History cannot be reduced to the strengths and weaknesses of individual leaders, but conjunctural factors…matter within the context of underlying, structural forces and trends. That the U.S. has a fractured and partially unhinged ruling class matters."

New Articles from Tempest for 05/11/2026

Trump’s rise to power didn’t come out of the blue—it’s a feature of a new crisis-ridden era

Opponents of U.S.and Israeli aggression in Iran must move beyond campism—or we will not succeed in rebuilding a genuinely emancipatory left or in revitalizing a truly popular internationalism

"A socialist vision for immigration recognizes freedom of movement as a fundamental human right. Only such a vision can address global inequities that drive migration and fuel the fight to extend full labor rights to all workers, removing the incentive for employers to exploit undocumented labor."

Happy birthday, Karl Marx, who gave workers of the world a language for understanding exploitation, class power & the machinery of capitalism. From picket lines to student encampments to mass uprisings, his point still echoes: the people who make the world can remake it.

New Articles from Tempest for 05/04/2026

"Tactics that worked, in a particular moment, to get a democratic socialist elected are not sufficient to win a serious reform agenda."

"The central demands are for increased funding for public education by redirecting money away from corporate tax cuts and private school vouchers."

"A coherent state in the conventional sense has never fully taken shape within the Islamic regime. What exists instead is a constellation of rival power factions."

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Tempest's Anderson Bean provides an account of recent Venezuelan politics that cuts against both the lies of the US government and the uncritical approach of sections of the international socialist left

New Articles from Tempest for 04/27/2026

May Day is a time to test and build our strength against oppression, exploitation, and war. The working class has a unique power in these struggles—the power to strike.

"The Chicago Tribune editorial board’s March 13 piece attacking the CTU presents a narrow and shortsighted view of what education is."

Read Kim Moody challenging the "affordability" framing of the cost-of- living crisis, arguing it obscures the class-based assault on workers' social reproduction. spectrejournal.com/affordabilit...

Alex de Jong reviews the memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, a Filipino revolutionary and member of the “General Command” of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s

New Articles from Tempest for 04/20/2026

“It is basically a scientific fact in policing that strategies constructed to target one part of the population finds its way to be used on other sections of the exploited and oppressed.”

"In their hands, talk of genocide is reduced to the work of a handful of individuals affiliated with right-wing think tanks, a move that allows them to focus on cultivating a sense that the entire Xinjiang issue is a construct of funding sources and self-interest."

In the Imperial Crosshairs Join us for this discussion of Trump’s war and its catastrophic consequences for the people of Iran and Ukraine. Thursday, April 16 at 2 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

"U.S. labor has a reprehensible hundred-year history of official engagement in support of Zionism and Israeli colonization of Palestine."

New Articles from Tempest for 04/13/2026

Part 2 of David Friedman's discussion about building movement-based independent political action and organization

David Friedman presents lessons for the new socialist movement in building movement-based independent political action and organization tempestmag.org/2026/04/case...

"A community rapid response to an ICE operation at a residence in South Burlington turned into a violent multi-agency police and ICE operation against migrant worker protectors. A huge public outcry has ... deepened the resolve of the local immigrant justice movement."

Video of our panel discussion on the devastating US-Israeli war on Iran and Israel’s war on Lebanon

New Articles from Tempest for 04/06/2026