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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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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"The only road to socialism is the self-organization and self-activityâindependent, democratically-directed struggleâof 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 Tempestâs 2025 education series, Charlie Post outlines Tempestâs commitment to socialism from below.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/12/socialism-from-below-3/
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We demand âHands Off Venezuela,â âEnd All U.S. Sanctions,â and we speak out in solidarity with the people of Venezuela
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Trumpâs Looming âForever Warâ
A statement in defense of the people and autonomy of Venezuela against Trumpâs imperialism by the United Left Platform.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/12/trumps-looming-forever-war/
8 days 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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9 days ago
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"Trumpâs 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 Trumpâs 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/
13 days ago
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Despite the excitement of the Mamdani moment, the Democrats have no answer to Trumpâs attacks on the working class
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After Mamdani, we still have to fight Trumpâs 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/
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"Itâs 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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"In a reality characterized by the brutality of the Russian war machine and the cynical, corrupt opportunism of sections of Ukraineâs 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 Ukraineâs healthcare system to its limits.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/ukrainian-nurses-call-for-continued-solidarity-in-the-face-of-unrelenting-attacks/
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Allen Ruff speaks with brian bean about their timely new book, Their End is our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
@haymarketbooks.org
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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/
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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 capitalismâbureaucratic state capitalismâin 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 Horeâs new edition of The Road to Tiananmen Square.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/11/was-the-chinese-revolution-socialist/
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"We need a militant working class movement, with class demands aimed at poverty and oppression, at the heart of democracyâs 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/
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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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"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/
about 1 month ago
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'The bureaucratic one-party regimes governing [âactually existing socialistâ] societies never aimed for democratic workersâ control or the abolition of exploitation and oppression.'
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âActually existing socialismâ and the communist transition
A review of David Camfieldâs 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/
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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
about 1 month ago
Since Charlie Kirkâs 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 âcrimeâ of speaking at a socialist conference.
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Fired for âCrimeâ of Speaking at Socialism Summit, Texas Professor Speaks Out
Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texasâs Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.
https://buff.ly/6Kxrvof
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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/
about 1 month 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."
tempestmag.org/2025/10/brea...
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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/
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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 solidarityânot to the authoritarian state
The Trump administrationâs âloyalty oath compactsâ are McCarthyism reborn, replacing scholarship with political obedience.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/loyalty-to-truth-and-solidarity-not-to-the-authoritarian-state/
about 1 month 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/
about 2 months ago
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"Socialists, in whatever wing of DSA or further to its left, should support struggles to achieve
#Mamdaniâs
program, even if in weakened form. But we should be under no illusions that Mamdani himself is a class warrior."
#NYmayor
#Election2025
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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/
about 2 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 UAWDâs 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/
about 2 months ago
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"Laborâs long decline in American life began with the triumph of
#McCarthyism
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Rehabilitating McCarthyism
Donald Trumpâs campaign of domestic repression makes it worth revisiting McCarthyism today.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/rehabilitating-mccarthyism/
about 2 months ago
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"Tom Alterâs firing constitutes an attack on his fundamental civil liberties, and represents a threat to the democratic rights of all working people."
#JusticeForTomAlter
#AcademicFreedom
#FreeSpeech
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Statement by the Committee to Defend History Professor Tom Alter
A call for support for Texas professor Tom Alter who was fired for speaking at a socialist conference.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/statement-by-the-committee-to-defend-history-professor-tom-alter/
about 2 months ago
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We celebrate
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
and offer the following partial and diverse list of voices and resources for readers to honor this day and the peoples it represents
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Indigenous Peoplesâ Day
The Tempest editorial board suggests a list of readings and resources for Indigenous Peoplesâ Day.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/indigenous-peoples-day/
about 2 months ago
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"Israel cannot do what it wants without the Western umbrella, and that is our moral, political and legal duty to remove that."
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âA huge massacre awaitsâ
Tempestâs Shireen Akram-Boshar asks Palestinian academic Toufic Hadad to characterize the current phase of the Gaza genocide.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/a-huge-massacre-awaits/
2 months ago
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In memory of the more than 300 journalists who have been targeted and killed by the state of Israel in the past 2 years
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Killing the messengers
In the midst of Israelâs ongoing genocide, we remember the more than 300 Palestinian journalists who have been targeted and killed by the state of Israel.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/killing-the-messengers/
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"Burgisâ article is an attempt to circle the wagons around a more limited political imagination to buttress [social democratic] politics. This is not the role socialists should play."
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Hiding our goals is no way to win
brian bean and Thomas Hummel discuss democratic socialism, the Democratic Socialists of America, resistance to abolitionism, and anti-Zionism.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/10/hiding-our-goals-is-no-way-to-win/
2 months ago
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"Trump is using attacks on Palestinians and trans people to carry out class war on us all."
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Against the New McCarthyism
Socialists must advocate and build the capacity to carry out collective organizing, protests, and strikes to advance democratic demands.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/against-the-new-mccarthyism/
2 months ago
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New Articles from Tempest for 09/29/2025
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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2 months ago
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'The biggest problem with
#Mamdaniâs
approach to âpublic safetyâ 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.'
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The Mamdani campaign, left horizons, and the âdefund the policeâ question
On Zohran Mamdaniâs NYC mayoral campaign, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and the enduring importance of âDefund the Policeâ.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/the-mamdani-campaign-left-horizons-and-the-defund-the-police-question/
3 months ago
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UK socialists in
@rs21.bsky.social
call on the countryâs new political party not to squander this opportunity
tempestmag.org/2025/09/your...
#YourParty
#UKPolitics
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Your Party: Donât fuck this up!
UK socialists in Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century call on the countryâs new political party not to squander this opportunity.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/your-party-dont-fuck-this-up/
3 months ago
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New Articles from Tempest for 09/22/2025
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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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"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
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Nepal protests have deeper roots
Protests against a social media in Nepal ban grew into a full blown uprising after police killed 19 protesters. But what is next?
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/nepal-protests-have-deeper-roots/
3 months ago
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Demand justice for Professor Tom Alter!
#NewMcCarthyism
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Texas State University Fires History Professor Tom Alter
A statement from the Texas State Employees Union condemning the termination of Texas State University Professor Tom Alter.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/texas-state-university-fires-history-professor-tom-alter/
3 months ago
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ discusses the forms of resistance and experimental collectivity that emerged in opposition to Trumpâs takeover of D.C. and considers the possibility of future escalation and organization
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Trumpâs D.C. occupation is an attack on all of us
D.C.-based scholar OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ discusses the forms of resistance that emerged in opposition to Trumpâs takeover of the capital.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/trumps-d-c-occupation-is-an-attack-on-all-of-us/
3 months ago
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed
3 months ago
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
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Sign the Petition
We Demand Texas State University Give Tom Alter His Job Back
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"Today we live under a very repressive state ⊠Peaceful demonstrations are brutally repressed ⊠We are living through a change of regime in
#Argentina
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#PalestineSolidarity
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Palestine on trial in Argentina
As Argentina continues to arrest peaceful protestors, Alejandro Bodart speaks about the criminalization of himself and Palestine solidarity.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/palestine-on-trial-in-argentina/
3 months ago
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"This is a new authoritarian model in which not only are autonomous organizations banned, but even unions have been declared obsolete."
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Venezuelaâs authoritarian turn and the repression of its Left
In this interview conducted by Anderson Bean, Edgardo Lander reflects on the deepening repression in Venezuela under the Maduro regime.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/venezuelas-authoritarian-turn-and-the-repression-of-its-left/
3 months ago
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"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."
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Resisting anti-trans policies in NYC and beyond
Danielle Bullock discusses examples of organized resistance to the attacks on trans youth in New York City and beyond.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/resisting-anti-trans-policies-in-nyc-and-beyond/
3 months ago
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Cele Fierroâa leading figure in Argentinaâs Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores (MST) and the International Socialist League (ISL/LIS)âdiscusses why she is joining the newest flotilla and whatâs at stake
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On the Flotilla to Gaza
Anderson Bean and brian bean interview Argentina socialist Cele Fierro about aid flotillas to Gaza sailing from Tunisia and Spain.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/09/on-the-flotilla-to-gaza/
3 months ago
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New Articles from Tempest for 09/01/2025
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Weekly updates from Tempest
A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org
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3 months ago
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"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."
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More pay, but less union democracy
The Air Canada strike won important gains but sacrificed workersâ rights to reject the deal.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/08/more-pay-but-less-union-democracy/
3 months ago
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"The Democratic Party specifically, because it is a party dominated by the capitalist class, sabotages our classâ fight against the authoritarian and reactionary tendencies of the Republicans."
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Democrats are saboteurs in the resistance camp
The Democratic Party sabotages struggles against the authoritarian and reactionary tendencies of the Republicans.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/08/democrats-are-saboteurs-in-the-resistance-camp/
4 months ago
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Solidarity with Venezuelan intellectuals
A call for solidarity with Venezuelan academics and intellectuals facing state repression.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/08/solidarity-with-venezuelan-intellectuals/
4 months ago
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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."
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Mamdani and the tasks for NYC socialists
The New York City Tempest branch lays out its position on the Mamdani campaign.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/08/mamdani-and-the-tasks-for-nyc-socialists/
4 months ago
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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.
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Support Ukraineâs Nurses
Help Ukraine Solidarity Network provide life-saving hospital equipment.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/08/support-ukraines-nurses/
4 months ago
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"We canât respond to Trump unless weâre 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."
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