Meeting hosted by the United Left Platform. Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 8 p.m ET/ 7 p.m. CT/ 5 p.m. PT.

New Articles from Tempest for 01/26/2026

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Sunday 1/25 at 1pm EST on Zoom. Andy Durgan discusses his new book on the left in the Spanish Civil War.

Oral history interviews with anti-ICE activists in Chicago

The mass strike actions planned for Friday in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump’s racist terror campaign

New Articles from Tempest for 01/19/2026

The January 3 attack on Venezuela was the collision of U.S. imperial escalation with a regime that had dismantled the very social forces capable of defending sovereignty from below

"The system’s true function is not to block immigration, but to ensure that those who do arrive remain exploitable and vulnerable."

"Mass activity fosters independent Left politics, strategy, and organization. These are the preconditions for developing a systemic alternative to capitalism."

New Articles from Tempest for 01/12/2026

Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since October 27, 2025. Chris Little and Jeffery R. Webber sat down with CUPE 1281 members, Nicole Leach and Manuel Marqués, to discuss the reasons behind the strike and the development of the dispute to date.

"We must promote a sustained, deep international campaign with all forces willing to confront U.S. interventionism without aligning with the Maduro government."

"The present and future of Venezuela is not for anyone to decide other than the people of Venezuela. We stand with all who seek to defend its right to self-determination."

The Tempest Collective statement in opposition to the Trump administration’s ongoing criminal actions in Venezuela

New Articles from Tempest for 01/05/2026

Two autoworkers explain how workers can protect their pay and jobs even when the bosses make layoffs

New Articles from Tempest for 12/29/2025

The role of the rank-and-file strategy and socialists in the labor movement is to help build the mass disruptive working-class struggles that will be required to make fundamental changes to the system and build the power of our side tempestmag.org/2025/12/soci...

How can we best work towards much larger and more effective socialist political organizations? Charlie Post joins David on this episode to discuss what genuine parties are, the history of socialist party-building efforts, the micro-party model and alternative approaches.

The Trump Administration and Vladimir Putin’s regime want to impose an imperialist peace on Ukraine, a partition of its sovereign territory that rewards Russian colonial aggression. Against all odds, Ukraine’s working class has sustained the popular and military struggle for self-determination.

Trump’s actions may be deadly, but his agenda in Latin America is a “contradictory mess” that can’t stem the rising influence of China

"Right-wingers wasted no time in using this massacre for their political ends, facts be damned."

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Tempest sends condolences to the friends and family of Asad Haider, who passed away last week. Tempest conducted an extensive interview with Asad in 2020. Rest in Power!

New Articles from Tempest for 12/08/2025

"The only road to socialism is the self-organization and self-activity—independent, democratically-directed struggle—of the working class in all its racial, national, and gender diversity."

We demand “Hands Off Venezuela,” “End All U.S. Sanctions,” and we speak out in solidarity with the people of Venezuela

New Articles from Tempest for 12/01/2025

"Trump’s 28-point plan for Ukraine is much like his 20-point plan for Gaza. Neither enforces international law, protects the victims, or holds the perpetrators of colonial aggression and occupation accountable. Both punish the victims and reward the aggressors."

Despite the excitement of the Mamdani moment, the Democrats have no answer to Trump’s attacks on the working class

"We should push Mamdani to stand up and fight, not conciliate the powers that be... Only mass struggle can win reform, not glad-handing a monster in the White House."

"It’s imperative that we tie the attack on trans people to the crises of capitalism more broadly, but that we also attend to the unique violences trans people experience while also uplifting and celebrating the beauty of trans lives."

New Articles from Tempest for 11/24/2025

"In a reality characterized by the brutality of the Russian war machine and the cynical, corrupt opportunism of sections of Ukraine’s own leadership, the continued support for those struggling in Ukraine remains as necessary as ever."

Allen Ruff speaks with brian bean about their timely new book, Their End is our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition @haymarketbooks.org

"The imposition of accumulation as the central dynamic of the economy, and the consequent social divisions of labor this gave rise to, created a form of capitalism—bureaucratic state capitalism—in which the economy was not run by individual capitalists but by the ruling state bureaucracy." #China

"We need a militant working class movement, with class demands aimed at poverty and oppression, at the heart of democracy’s defense."

New Articles from Tempest for 11/10/2025

"TDU's evolution is a cautionary tale. Without organizational and political independence, a clear class analysis, and a core of activists with a revolutionary perspective centered on the rank-and-file, even radical movements can become instruments of the status quo."

'The bureaucratic one-party regimes governing [“actually existing socialist”] societies never aimed for democratic workers’ control or the abolition of exploitation and oppression.'

Join authors David Camfield and brian bean, with interlocutor Demetrius Noble, as they discuss a historical approach to abolition, the state, and how our side can build a genuinely liberatory alternative to capitalism. Mon, Nov 10, 5pm ET. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has intensified the bipartisan New McCarthyism, compelling willing bosses to censure, suspend, and fire workers. Texas State University fired tenured professor Tom Alter in September for the “crime” of speaking at a socialist conference.

"If tethered to electoral solutions and to working with Democrats, the movement is likely to see continuously watered-down demands, and even the abandonment of basic demands that do not fit with Democratic Party goals." #FreePalestine

"The attack on academic freedom is part and parcel of a national and global authoritarian movement that benefits from [faculty and] students living scared in the dark." tempestmag.org/2025/10/brea...

Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian recently spoke at a National Teach-In organized by the American Association of University Professors.

Join us at this event on Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm ET to support the fight to defend Tom Alter and the growing list of victims of Trumpite repression, and to speak out against the broad attacks on all of our democratic rights

"Socialists, in whatever wing of DSA or further to its left, should support struggles to achieve #Mamdani’s program, even if in weakened form. But we should be under no illusions that Mamdani himself is a class warrior." #NYmayor #Election2025

UAWD (Unite All Workers for Democracy) is launching Daily Struggle, a new worker-led publication to champion a rank-and-file-led class struggle movement within the UAW that will seek to organize, agitate, and mobilize the entire working class

"Labor’s long decline in American life began with the triumph of #McCarthyism. We are still paying the price today."