Tempest Collective
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A revolutionary socialist organizing project in the U.S.
https://tempestmag.org/
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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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Tempest is co-sponsoring this meeting on the uprising in Bolivia
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New Articles from Tempest for 06/22/2026
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A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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"Our participation was extremely important both for the Palestinian movement and for Ukrainian society. It is an expression of genuine internationalism."
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Ukrainians in solidarity with Palestine
Ashley Smith interviews Ukrainian leftist and activist Andriy Movchan about the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/06/ukrainians-in-solidarity-with-palestine/
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"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."
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Redeeming the past for a revolutionary future
Sean Isaacs describes how D.K. Renton's new book, Revolutionary Forgiveness, offers meaningful alternatives to the carceral system.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/06/redeeming-the-past-for-a-revolutionary-future/
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New Articles from Tempest for 06/15/2026
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"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."
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UAWD Getting Back to the Future of Labor Organizing
Over the last year since its near-dissolution, UAWD has worked to mold itself into something that stands in contrast to much of today’s labor organizing.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/06/uawd-getting-back-to-the-future-of-labor-organizing/
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The history of the Anti Nazi League holds valuable lessons for fighting the far right today
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The Cultural Movement that Once Defeated Neo-Nazism
Bill Roberts reviews Geoff Brown’s A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League, documenting the formation of the Anti-Nazi League in Britain.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/06/the-cultural-movement-that-once-defeated-neo-nazism/
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"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."
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Party time?
A discussion on what genuine political parties are, the history of socialist party-building efforts, and alternative approaches to the micro-party model.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/06/party-time/
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New Articles from Tempest for 06/08/2026
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"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."
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The state of the unions in the U.S.
Union coverage does not equate to union militancy, Jacob Sloan explains. That militancy must be built from the ground up.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/06/the-state-of-the-unions-in-the-u-s/
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"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."
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Rebuilding labor Solidarity across the border
In April, the labor center Casa Obrera de Baja California organized a summit to rebuild an internationalist labor movement across the US-Mexico border.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/06/rebuilding-labor-solidarity-across-the-border/
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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.
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War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia
An interview with the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/06/war-economic-crisis-and-discontent-in-putins-russia/
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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.
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A tribute to Sandra Reed
A tribute to the recently deceased death penalty abolitionist, Sandra Reed.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/a-tribute-to-sandra-reed/
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New Articles from Tempest for 06/01/2026
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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.
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Violence enabled by the state
Eric Maroney speaks out about the brutal murder of trans teenager Juniper Blessing on May 10th, 2026.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/violence-enabled-by-the-state/
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"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."
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Femonationalism in the Alternative for Germany
Aya Anzouk analyzes the weaponization of feminism in right-wing populist movements.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/femonationalism-in-the-alternative-for-germany/
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New Articles from Tempest for 05/25/2026
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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Tempest members report on May Day protests around the country
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May Day 2026
A report on May Day Strong and the Anti-Trump Protests.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/may-day-2026/
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Shireen Akram-Boshar pays tribute to Muzan Alneel
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Muzan Alneel, 1986-2026
Muzan Alneel's sudden passing at the young age of 39 last month is a major loss for the Sudanese revolutionary movement.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/muzan-alneel-1986-2026/
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New Articles from Tempest for 05/18/2026
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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
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No more 24!
Sign on to a statement in support of NYC home care workers.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/no-more-24/
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"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."
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Hustle and hubris
Trump’s direction of U.S. imperialism should be understood as closer to a pure kleptocracy than one actually serving the capitalist class and its allies.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/hustle-and-hubris/
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New Articles from Tempest for 05/11/2026
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Trump’s rise to power didn’t come out of the blue—it’s a feature of a new crisis-ridden era
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Faultlines in a new epoch of crisis
Capitalism’s global slump and the return of inter-imperial rivalry with the war in Iran.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/faultlines-in-a-new-epoch-of-crisis/
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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
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For an end to campism, the Iran war, and the anti-imperialist washing of the Islamic Republic
Somayeh Rostampour argues that opponents of U.S.and Israeli aggression in Iran must move beyond the anti-imperialist washing of the Islamic Republic.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/for-an-end-to-campism-the-iran-war-and-the-anti-imperialist-washing-of-the-islamic-republic/
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"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."
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Communities not cages
Christopher Oliphant reports on April events resisting the spread of ICE’s capacity to detain immigrants in Michigan.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/communities-not-cages/
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In These Times
about 2 months ago
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.
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New Articles from Tempest for 05/04/2026
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"Tactics that worked, in a particular moment, to get a democratic socialist elected are not sufficient to win a serious reform agenda."
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Mayor Mamdani’s program in peril?
A strategy different than Mamdani's will be necessary to win his promises.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/mayor-mamdanis-program-in-peril/
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"The central demands are for increased funding for public education by redirecting money away from corporate tax cuts and private school vouchers."
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Kids Over Corporations
Educator activism and May Day mobilization in North Carolina.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/05/kids-over-corporations/
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"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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Iran’s “bleak scenario”
Nasser Asgary explains Iran’s “bleak scenario”—how the fall of the regime could produce something yet worse.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/irans-bleak-scenario/
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Labor Notes: Reverse your ban of Teamsters Mobilize member Colleen Donovan from the 2026 Labor Notes Conference!
What happened to “putting the movement back in the labor movement”? On Friday, April 24th, 2026 Teamsters Mobilize Steering Committee member Colleen Donovan received an email from Labor Notes stating...
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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
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Venezuela in Trump’s crosshairs: Interview with Anderson Bean
In an interview with Marxist Left Review, 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 ...
https://marxistleftreview.org/articles/venezuela-in-trumps-crosshairs-interview-with-anderson-bean/
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New Articles from Tempest for 04/27/2026
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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.
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The cause of labor is the hope of the world
May Day Strong is a key builder of working-class power against authoritarianism.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/the-cause-of-labor-is-the-hope-of-the-world/
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"The Chicago Tribune editorial board’s March 13 piece attacking the CTU presents a narrow and shortsighted view of what education is."
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The Tribune gets it wrong on the CTU
A challenge to a hit piece against the Chicago Teachers Union in the Chicago Tribune.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/the-tribune-gets-it-wrong-on-the-ctu/
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Read Kim Moody challenging the "affordability" framing of the cost-of- living crisis, arguing it obscures the class-based assault on workers' social reproduction.
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Affordability or Crisis of Social Reproduction? – Spectre Journal
Kim Moody breaks down what the affordability crisis really means—a crisis of social reproduction created by the radical inequality of wealth.
https://spectrejournal.com/affordability-or-crisis-of-social-reproduction/
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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
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Searching for international solidarity
Alex de Jong reviews the memoir of Filipino revolutionary Eddie L. Quitoriano.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/searching-for-international-solidarity/
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New Articles from Tempest for 04/20/2026
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“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.”
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ICE and the Police State
Tempest interviews Alec Karakatsanis and brian bean about ICE, the police state, and the struggle toward abolition today.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/ice-and-the-police-state/
2 months ago
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"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."
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Dismissing China’s repression in Xinjiang
Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak recently defended China’s policy toward ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang. David Brophy exposes the weakness of their case.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismissing-chinas-repression-in-xinjiang/
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Haymarket Books
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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:
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"U.S. labor has a reprehensible hundred-year history of official engagement in support of Zionism and Israeli colonization of Palestine."
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U.S. Labor’s long history of Zionism
Paul Fleckenstein reviews Jeff Schuhrke’s "No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine."
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/u-s-labors-long-history-of-zionism/
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New Articles from Tempest for 04/13/2026
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Part 2 of David Friedman's discussion about building movement-based independent political action and organization
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Case studies in political independence
Lessons from the 1960s, for the current socialist movement, in building movement-based independent political action and organization.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/case-studies-in-political-independence-2/
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David Friedman presents lessons for the new socialist movement in building movement-based independent political action and organization
tempestmag.org/2026/04/case...
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"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."
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Community defends migrant workers
Resistance grows among anti-ICE and abolish ICE protesters in the community of South Burlington, Vermont following an ICE raid last month.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/community-defends-migrant-workers/
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Video of our panel discussion on the devastating US-Israeli war on Iran and Israel’s war on Lebanon
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Stop the War Now!
A panel discussion on the devastating US-Israeli war on Iran and Israel's war on Lebanon.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/04/stop-the-war-now/
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New Articles from Tempest for 04/06/2026
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