"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."

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.

New Articles from Tempest for 05/04/2026

"Tactics that worked, in a particular moment, to get a democratic socialist elected are not sufficient to win a serious reform agenda."

"The central demands are for increased funding for public education by redirecting money away from corporate tax cuts and private school vouchers."

"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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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

New Articles from Tempest for 04/27/2026

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.

"The Chicago Tribune editorial board’s March 13 piece attacking the CTU presents a narrow and shortsighted view of what education is."

Read Kim Moody challenging the "affordability" framing of the cost-of- living crisis, arguing it obscures the class-based assault on workers' social reproduction. spectrejournal.com/affordabilit...

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

New Articles from Tempest for 04/20/2026

“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.”

"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."

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: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

"U.S. labor has a reprehensible hundred-year history of official engagement in support of Zionism and Israeli colonization of Palestine."

New Articles from Tempest for 04/13/2026

Part 2 of David Friedman's discussion about building movement-based independent political action and organization

David Friedman presents lessons for the new socialist movement in building movement-based independent political action and organization tempestmag.org/2026/04/case...

"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."

Video of our panel discussion on the devastating US-Israeli war on Iran and Israel’s war on Lebanon

New Articles from Tempest for 04/06/2026

Ever since a U.S.-British coup brought the Shah of Iran to power in 1953, anti-Westernism has served as a common “analytical lens” for the country’s politics—both for the current regime and for the opposition

The shock of the Iran war is showing up first in India by creating hardships in everyday life—and exposing the country’s social fracture lines

This roundtable will take up some of the important experiences of the rising movements resisting the domestic and global rampages of U.S. imperialism under the Trump administration, with perspectives on how these struggles can become powerful, unified and politically independent.

'We grant the sanctity of property the right to command when we ratify a contract with a “management’s rights” and/or “no strike” clause that amounts to voluntary servitude. It’s time to break these chains.'

"The Israeli war against Lebanon never truly ended, even if it was experienced differently in different regions."

"Florian Wilde’s breakthrough biography justly reestablishes Meyer as one of the most remarkable leaders of the German Communist Party (KPD), standing alongside Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht."

New Articles from Tempest for 03/30/2026

"We call on our friends and allies worldwide to strengthen international solidarity: to stand together against war, occupation, and social injustice."

Recording of Thursday's panel discussion

The Iran war is spreading misery around the world, starting with the most vulnerable places. Sirantos Fotopoulos argues that the source of the war—and of the misery—is the system of energy-for-profit.

The devastating US-Israeli war on Iran and Israel's war on Lebanon show no signs of ending soon. What is behind the attacks and how can we organize to oppose them without supporting the Iranian theocracy? Join Tempest Magazine and Haymarket Books for this important discussion.

Ashley Smith conversa con Federico Fuentes sobre la Doctrina Donroe, la crisis del chavismo y la resistencia antiimperialista

Paul Le Blanc reviews two books about the development of anti- and de-colonial Marxism

New Articles from Tempest for 03/23/2026

"Capital has been a translocal phenomenon since its inception.… Arguing that it originated in a single country alone seems like a kind of magical thinking."

"Bringing proposals like the Local 2325 resolution to locals across the UAW, spanning shops in manufacturing, legal services, higher ed, and beyond, will enable a debate about how to wield working class power."

"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