'The biggest problem with #Mamdani’s approach to “public safety” is that it represents a summary retreat from many of the political, material, and ideological advances wrought by the movements and uprisings against police oppression over the last decade.'

UK socialists in @rs21.bsky.social call on the country’s new political party not to squander this opportunity tempestmag.org/2025/09/your... #YourParty #UKPolitics

New Articles from Tempest for 09/22/2025

"The legitimate anger over corruption can be a step towards social radicalism. But there is also a risk of such energy being captured by more conservative forces, as the fate of other anti-corruption protests shows." #NepalProtests

Demand justice for Professor Tom Alter! #NewMcCarthyism

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò discusses the forms of resistance and experimental collectivity that emerged in opposition to Trump’s takeover of D.C. and considers the possibility of future escalation and organization

Beloved History professor and Socialist Horizon member Tom Alter was summarily fired on September 10th by Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse for expressing his ideas at a virtual conference. We Demand Texas State University Give Tom Alter His Job Back chng.it/Lr8fkLfy via @Change

"Today we live under a very repressive state … Peaceful demonstrations are brutally repressed … We are living through a change of regime in #Argentina." #PalestineSolidarity

"This is a new authoritarian model in which not only are autonomous organizations banned, but even unions have been declared obsolete."

"NYC is often thought of as a center of trans and queer resistance, and a place of relative refuge for the LGBTQ+ community. This is not by accident, but is the result of generations of struggle from even before the Stonewall Uprising."

Cele Fierro—a leading figure in Argentina’s Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores (MST) and the International Socialist League (ISL/LIS)—discusses why she is joining the newest flotilla and what’s at stake

New Articles from Tempest for 09/01/2025

"Union members who want unions that are really militant, democratic and solidaristic need to organize themselves on their own and work to change our unions."

"The Democratic Party specifically, because it is a party dominated by the capitalist class, sabotages our class’ fight against the authoritarian and reactionary tendencies of the Republicans."

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"While we understand and identify with the desire for material victories, it is wrong for socialists to conflate winning elected office with winning actual policy or social agendas, or even with strengthening the organized forces of the Left."

Tempest is calling for support of this most recent campaign of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US). The USN (US), is a national network of organizations and individual activists that has embarked on a fundraiser to raise $38,000 for the Ukrainian nurses union.

"We can’t respond to Trump unless we’re able to respond to our boss. We have to organize and fight the boss if we want to be able to fight these larger battles." tempestmag.org/2025/08/stri...

New Articles from Tempest for 08/18/2025

“It is the staunch U.S. bipartisan support for Israel that has made this genocide possible."

"Mamdani talks well about the struggles of NYC’s working class, but he must match their urgency with a campaign serious enough to overcome the resistance of the capitalist elite." #ZohranMamdani #nycmayorrace

"Sectarianism acts as a powerful mechanism of social control, shaping the course of class struggle by fostering dependency between the popular classes and their ruling elites." #Syria

"As a growing chorus of scholars and professional organizations recognize the genocide in Gaza, the [American Historical Association’s] silence only grows louder."

New Articles from Tempest for 08/04/2025

"The first step in the revolutionary solution to the crises will have to start with seemingly-spontaneous uprisings that destabilize and replace political regimes in ways that set off a spreading series of similar upsets."

Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China

"We need a united working-class defense against rising authoritarianism. They’ve had a breakthrough. We have got to stop them from consolidating power."

"Education workers have blazed trails that contain vital lessons in building a resistance to Trump."

New Articles from Tempest for 07/28/2025

Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China

Alex de Jong reviews the Filipino activist-scholar Walden Bello’s new memoir, Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love

New Articles from Tempest for 07/21/2025

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"Unsolvable economic crisis plus Trump’s rogue politics make Trumpism an extremely unstable system."

New Articles from Tempest for 07/14/2025

The island nation of Taiwan has been a battleground for competing empires for centuries. Now, as the world’s leading producer of advanced microchips, Taiwan and its people are caught in the crosshairs of two imperial rivals: the US and China.

'Because of the weaponization of antisemitism in the West, it is crucial that there are groups of publicly identified Jews who say: “No, this is not—these people do not speak in my name. We oppose this. We stand with the Palestinians.”'

"I care about winning pro-worker reforms and defeating the political forces who oppose those reforms... For my part, I think if we commit in advance to working within the Democratic Party and doing politics in the usual way we will lose that fight."

BC Hamilton analyzes the limitations of Zohran #Mamdani's run for New York City Mayor and the real struggles and social movements that have allowed a candidate like Mamdani to take center stage

New Articles from Tempest for 07/07/2025

"Our resistance must build independent and democratic organizations for class and social struggle, oppose all of President Trump’s attacks on the exploited and oppressed, and organize."

New Articles from Tempest for 06/30/2025

"Let’s name capitalism. Tell the truth about this system. But don’t dismiss people. Engage them. Organize with them. Grow with them."

"Although not without shortcomings, the day of protest represents an important development in the resistance to the MAGA reaction."

'These bombings, at this moment, combine uniquely Trumpian hubris, a level of policy incoherence, and a mobster’s sense of political expediency. All of which is backed by the most vile stew of “America First” chauvinism, Islamophobic racism and Christian millenarianism.'

New Articles from Tempest for 06/23/2025

If we’re to build the revolutionary left today, we need to reject the idea that regimes like the Soviet Union or Maoist China were socialist. Pete Cannell reviews a new book about ‘actually existing socialism’. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/21/r...

Imran Kamyana assesses the social forces at play in #Israel’s war against #Iran

Marea Socialista puts forward an urgent call for rebuilding working-class organization and political independence in Venezuela, situating their struggle within a broader internationalist and anti-capitalist framework

"...when people take action and run up against the limits of this system, they begin to see it for what it is. That’s how the civil rights movement grew into Black Power. That’s how moderate reformers became revolutionaries." Excellent analysis by @jessehagopian.bsky.social.