"We have to oppose any U.S, intervention in Cuba and stand for national self-determination in that country, as we have done in the case of Ukraine against the Russian invasion there. We should also support democratic opposition groups in Cuba that, like us, oppose U.S. intervention there."

New Articles from Tempest for 03/16/2026

An important win for workers in Mexico

A nationwide call for walkouts to protest ICE repression catalyzed crucial new organizing even if the actions didn’t add up to a “general strike.”

New Articles from Tempest for 03/09/2026

"International Women’s Day was never meant to be a platform for high profile women to build their influence. Its roots lie in the socialist movements of the early twentieth century, when working-class women organised collectively against exploitation, political exclusion and poverty wages."

"Trump’s objective is to bring the entire hemisphere to heel, using or threatening to use the largest military-industrial arsenal humanity has ever built."

"For thirty years, the neoliberal education reform project has brought together corporations and private donors to chip away at the egalitarian potential of America’s public schools." tempestmag.org/2026/03/publ...

Sirantos Fotopoulos picks apart the reasons for the assault on Iran

"The liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular classes are bound together. In order to resist their ruler’s divide and conquer strategy, the region’s working classes must oppose Kurdish oppression."

New Articles from Tempest for 03/02/2026

"As nurses, we are the advocates for our patients in every way. And our hospital has repeatedly tried to silence our voices, not just with the strike, but even when we were working."

"Whatever Trump’s rhetoric, no species of U.S. intervention can aid the people of Iran in their struggle for liberation; only the Iranian people are capable of achieving that for themselves."

"The struggle for self-emancipation doesn’t have borders."

"It is up to the Ukrainians to democratically decide what is an acceptable peace. We will not stand by while Russian and U.S. oligarchs try to sell out Ukraine and divide it between them for their own profits and far-right ideological objectives."

New Articles from Tempest for 02/23/2026

"This strike signifies the working class’s willingness to confront austerity directly and exercise its power at a time of deepening economic precarity and inequality."

"Imperialist aggression should not be transformed into a shorthand to explain away the internal contradictions of the Venezuelan experience."

New Articles from Tempest for 02/09/2026

“The fundamental division in the housing debate is not whether you support or oppose higher density, but if you view the market as the solution to the housing crisis or as the cause of it.”

Join four left Venezuelan voices for an urgent discussion of the neocolonial US intervention and kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro on January 3 and its aftermath. Sat Feb 14, 2026 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

spectrejournal.com/municipal-so... Read Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor challenging technocratic Abundance-style solutions to New York's housing crisis and arguing for a rank-and-file tenants' movement.

"Linking up abolition and communism is urgent because the right knows what they need to protect the system."

"How can we harness the collective strength on display in Minnesota, and everywhere that people are standing up against ICE, in order to make a significant economic impact?"

New Articles from Tempest for 02/09/2026

"Imperialist powers seek to exploit the crises of their rivals or opponents for their own advantage. But this fact cannot serve as an excuse to deny the real material suffering and popular protest of people crushed under economic austerity, inflation, and repression."

"Within our workplaces, we aim to be the most consistent, strategic, and effective fighters around immediate issues that affect every single one of our members. Our role as socialists is . . . to build our members’ confidence, encouraging them to take a step in the direction of collective action."

"The lack of response to … [U.S.] intervention is a direct result of the Maduro government’s anti-worker and anti-democratic policies, which have alienated the precise base required to resist imperialism."

David Camfield lays out the proper Left response to Trump’s bullying

Alan Maass continues the debate on socialist strategy

"Ending mayoral control and giving parents and teachers more of a voice in NYC education has been a longstanding goal of progressive education activists. Mamdani’s turnabout marks a breach of trust with his own base."

In the context of the mass mobilizations against ICE in Minnesota, Harsha Walia argues for a politics grounded in the long arc of struggle and learning across generations

"To understand Dey, political economy must be moved from the margins back to the center of the analysis."

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