Tempest Collective
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A revolutionary socialist organizing project in the U.S.
https://tempestmag.org/
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Learn about the Tempest Collective
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The Tempest project
We have launched Tempest as a small contribution to rebuilding a revolutionary socialist current in the U.S. Here we reprint a brief introduction to our project.
https://tempestmag.org/2020/08/the-tempest-project/
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Meeting hosted by the United Left Platform. Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 8 p.m ET/ 7 p.m. CT/ 5 p.m. PT.
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U.S. out of Venezuela - ICE out of our communities!
U.S. imperialism in Venezuela and at home
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/u-s-out-of-venezuela-ice-out-of-our-communities/
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New Articles from Tempest for 01/26/2026
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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Will Stancil
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Sunday 1/25 at 1pm EST on Zoom. Andy Durgan discusses his new book on the left in the Spanish Civil War.
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The POUM, republic, revolution and counterrevolution
A book talk and discussion with Andy Durgan on the Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) and its role during the Spanish Civil War.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/the-poum-republic-revolution-and-counterrevolution/
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Oral history interviews with anti-ICE activists in Chicago
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Resistance to ICE’s war on Chicago
Members of the Chicago Tempest Collective compiled these oral history interviews with anti-ICE activists in Chicago.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/resistance-to-ices-war-on-chicago/
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The mass strike actions planned for Friday in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump’s racist terror campaign
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Minneapolis shows the way
Those resisting Trump’s campaign of racist street terror need to follow the lead of Minneapolis on strike.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/minneapolis-shows-the-way/
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New Articles from Tempest for 01/19/2026
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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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
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The end of pretenses
Trump’s assault on Venezuela was an attempt to reverse the decline of U.S. dominance over Latin America.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/the-end-of-pretenses/
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"The system’s true function is not to block immigration, but to ensure that those who do arrive remain exploitable and vulnerable."
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ICE is waging class war
ICE is not just inflicting terror on immigrants, but on all people who act in solidarity. In short, this is class war.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/ice-is-waging-class-war/
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"Mass activity fosters independent Left politics, strategy, and organization. These are the preconditions for developing a systemic alternative to capitalism."
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We can’t vote our way out of this mess
The Tempest National Committee looks to the emergence of mass protests as the way to challenge Trump’s authoritarianism.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/we-cant-vote-our-way-out-of-this-mess/
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New Articles from Tempest for 01/12/2026
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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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.
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Being on strike when your employer is a union
Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/being-on-strike-when-your-employer-is-a-union/
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"We must promote a sustained, deep international campaign with all forces willing to confront U.S. interventionism without aligning with the Maduro government."
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Against U.S. imperial war on Venezuela!
Anderson Bean interviews Venezuelan socialist Gonzalo GĂłmez about the escalation of U.S. intervention in Venezuela.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/against-u-s-imperial-war-on-venezuela/
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"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."
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United Left Platform Calls for Mass Resistance to U.S. Attack on Venezuela
The Tempest Collective joins the United Left Platform in principled opposition to the Trump administration’s criminal actions in Venezuela.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/united-left-platform-calls-for-mass-resistance-to-u-s-attack-on-venezuela/
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The Tempest Collective statement in opposition to the Trump administration’s ongoing criminal actions in Venezuela
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Oppose U.S. Imperialism in Venezuela
The Tempest Collective stands in principled and steadfast opposition to the Trump administration’s ongoing criminal actions in Venezuela.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/oppose-u-s-imperialism-in-venezuela/
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New Articles from Tempest for 01/05/2026
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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21 days ago
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Two autoworkers explain how workers can protect their pay and jobs even when the bosses make layoffs
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Fighting layoffs
Workers at General Motors' electric vehicle Factory Zero in Detroit are fighting layoffs.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/fighting-layoffs/
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New Articles from Tempest for 12/29/2025
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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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...
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Socialism from below and the rank-and-file strategy
An introduction to the rank-and-file organizing strategy by Tim Goulet, part of Tempest’s 2025 political education series.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/12/socialism-from-below-and-the-rank-and-file-strategy/
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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.
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#60: Party Time?
Party Time? . . Socialists need to organize as socialists to be as effective as we can. Does this mean that small socialist organizations can be parties or start to build parties? How can we best work
https://soundcloud.com/user-737267994/60-party-time
about 1 month ago
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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.
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Building Working Class Solidarity with Ukraine: Material Aid for Nurses, Hospitals, & Harm Reduction
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
https://www.youtube.com/live/VnGhZWIpe7Y
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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
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Beijing in Buenos Aires
China’s influence in Latin America is rising, but Trump’s incoherent strategy can’t counteract it.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/12/beijing-in-buenos-aires/
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"Right-wingers wasted no time in using this massacre for their political ends, facts be damned."
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Shame on those using the Bondi massacre to slander Palestine solidarity | Red Flag
Right-wingers wasted no time in using the Bondi massacre for their political ends. The long-term advocates of anti-Muslim, pro-genocide politics began grandstanding with no concern for empirical reali...
https://redflag.org.au/article/shame-on-those-using-the-bondi-massacre-to-slander-palestine-solidarity
about 1 month ago
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The Onion
about 2 months ago
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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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!
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Race and class / Reed and reductionism
Asad Haider interviews in a wide-ranging conversation about race, reductionism, Adolph Reed, and the Marxist method.
https://tempestmag.org/2020/08/haider-interview-part-1/?brid=H6H-ezx-8i8XZW-4wEH2ww
about 2 months ago
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New Articles from Tempest for 12/08/2025
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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about 2 months ago
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"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."
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Socialism from below
In this talk, originally given as part of Tempest’s 2025 education series, Charlie Post outlines Tempest’s commitment to socialism from below.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/12/socialism-from-below-3/
about 2 months ago
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We demand “Hands Off Venezuela,” “End All U.S. Sanctions,” and we speak out in solidarity with the people of Venezuela
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Trump’s Looming “Forever War”
A statement in defense of the people and autonomy of Venezuela against Trump’s imperialism by the United Left Platform.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/12/trumps-looming-forever-war/
about 2 months ago
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New Articles from Tempest for 12/01/2025
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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about 2 months ago
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"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."
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Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine
The Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. statement in opposition to the Trump/Putin plan for Ukrainian surrender to Russian imperialism.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/oppose-trumps-surrender-plan-for-ukraine/
about 2 months ago
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Despite the excitement of the Mamdani moment, the Democrats have no answer to Trump’s attacks on the working class
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After Mamdani, we still have to fight Trump’s America
The Democratic Party has no solutions to the economic, social, political, and ecological crises facing the working class around the world today.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/after-mamdani-we-still-have-to-fight-trumps-america/
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"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."
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After the surreal summit
Ashley Smith analyzes the surreal, chummy meeting between the authoritarian Trump and NYC Mayor Elect and self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/after-the-surreal-summit/
2 months ago
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"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."
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Resisting transphobia
A commemoration for Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) in the backdrop of the tragic death of trans activist Lia Smith.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/resisting-transphobia/
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New Articles from Tempest for 11/24/2025
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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2 months ago
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"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."
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Ukrainian nurses call for continued solidarity in the face of unrelenting attacks
Nearly four years of full-scale war has pushed Ukraine’s healthcare system to its limits.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/ukrainian-nurses-call-for-continued-solidarity-in-the-face-of-unrelenting-attacks/
2 months ago
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Allen Ruff speaks with brian bean about their timely new book, Their End is our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
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How the Police Uphold Capitalism - WORT-FM 89.9
Allen Ruff speaks with brian bean whose new book is a timely argument for getting rid of the institution of police.
https://wortfm.org/how-the-police-uphold-capitalism/
2 months ago
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"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
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Was the Chinese revolution socialist?
Tempest publishes a chapter fromCharlie Hore’s new edition of The Road to Tiananmen Square.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/was-the-chinese-revolution-socialist/
2 months ago
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"We need a militant working class movement, with class demands aimed at poverty and oppression, at the heart of democracy’s defense."
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We need socialism to save democracy
Throughout history, democracy has always come from below, as the exploited and oppressed have entered the fray and demanded it.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/we-need-socialism-to-save-democracy/
3 months ago
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New Articles from Tempest for 11/10/2025
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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3 months ago
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"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."
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The conservative (d)evolution of Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Tim Goulet examines the history and recent right-ward direction of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/the-conservative-devolution-of-teamsters-for-a-democratic-union/
3 months ago
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'The bureaucratic one-party regimes governing [“actually existing socialist”] societies never aimed for democratic workers’ control or the abolition of exploitation and oppression.'
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“Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition
A review of David Camfield’s new book Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left by David Camfield.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/actually-existing-socialism-and-the-communist-transition/
3 months ago
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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...
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Truthout
3 months ago
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.
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Fired for “Crime” of Speaking at Socialism Summit, Texas Professor Speaks Out
Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.
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"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
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Electoralism cannot free Palestine
Shireen Akram-Boshar argues that a recent interview in Jacobin offers a mistaken analysis of the challenges facing the Palestine solidarity movement.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/electoralism-cannot-free-palestine/
3 months ago
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"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."
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Breaking barriers to academic freedom
Tempest member Dana Cloud urges scholars to tell the truth and take sides to defend academic freedom.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/breaking-barriers-to-academic-freedom/
3 months ago
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Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian recently spoke at a National Teach-In organized by the American Association of University Professors.
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Loyalty to truth and solidarity—not to the authoritarian state
The Trump administration’s “loyalty oath compacts” are McCarthyism reborn, replacing scholarship with political obedience.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/loyalty-to-truth-and-solidarity-not-to-the-authoritarian-state/
3 months ago
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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
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Speak out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the fight for free speech
Event in support of Tom Alter and all targets of political repression
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/speak-out-tom-alter-maga-mccarthyism-and-the-fight-for-free-speech/
3 months ago
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"Socialists, in whatever wing of DSA or further to its left, should support struggles to achieve
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#NYmayor
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The candidate, the billionaires, and the Democrats
Mel Bienenfeld explains the pandering of Zohran Mamdani to New York elites.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/the-candidate-the-billionaires-and-the-democrats/
3 months ago
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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
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Introducing the UAWD’s Daily Struggle
UAWD is launching a new worker-led publication by and for UAW members.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/introducing-the-uawds-daily-struggle/
3 months ago
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"Labor’s long decline in American life began with the triumph of
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Rehabilitating McCarthyism
Donald Trump’s campaign of domestic repression makes it worth revisiting McCarthyism today.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/rehabilitating-mccarthyism/
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