New Articles from Tempest for 12/08/2025

"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."

We demand “Hands Off Venezuela,” “End All U.S. Sanctions,” and we speak out in solidarity with the people of Venezuela

New Articles from Tempest for 12/01/2025

"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."

Despite the excitement of the Mamdani moment, the Democrats have no answer to Trump’s attacks on the working class

"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."

"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."

New Articles from Tempest for 11/24/2025

"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."

Allen Ruff speaks with brian bean about their timely new book, Their End is our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition @haymarketbooks.org

"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

"We need a militant working class movement, with class demands aimed at poverty and oppression, at the heart of democracy’s defense."

New Articles from Tempest for 11/10/2025

"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."

'The bureaucratic one-party regimes governing [“actually existing socialist”] societies never aimed for democratic workers’ control or the abolition of exploitation and oppression.'

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...

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.

"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

"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...

Seattle educator, author, and socialist Jesse Hagopian recently spoke at a National Teach-In organized by the American Association of University Professors.

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

"Socialists, in whatever wing of DSA or further to its left, should support struggles to achieve #Mamdani’s program, even if in weakened form. But we should be under no illusions that Mamdani himself is a class warrior." #NYmayor #Election2025

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

"Labor’s long decline in American life began with the triumph of #McCarthyism. We are still paying the price today."

"Tom Alter’s firing constitutes an attack on his fundamental civil liberties, and represents a threat to the democratic rights of all working people." #JusticeForTomAlter #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech

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

"Israel cannot do what it wants without the Western umbrella, and that is our moral, political and legal duty to remove that."

In memory of the more than 300 journalists who have been targeted and killed by the state of Israel in the past 2 years

"Burgis’ 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."

"Trump is using attacks on Palestinians and trans people to carry out class war on us all."

New Articles from Tempest for 09/29/2025

'The biggest problem with #Mamdani’s approach to “public safety” 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.'

UK socialists in @rs21.bsky.social call on the country’s new political party not to squander this opportunity tempestmag.org/2025/09/your... #YourParty #UKPolitics

New Articles from Tempest for 09/22/2025

"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

Demand justice for Professor Tom Alter! #NewMcCarthyism

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò discusses the forms of resistance and experimental collectivity that emerged in opposition to Trump’s takeover of D.C. and considers the possibility of future escalation and organization

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

"Today we live under a very repressive state … Peaceful demonstrations are brutally repressed … We are living through a change of regime in #Argentina." #PalestineSolidarity

"This is a new authoritarian model in which not only are autonomous organizations banned, but even unions have been declared obsolete."

"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."

Cele Fierro—a leading figure in Argentina’s Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores (MST) and the International Socialist League (ISL/LIS)—discusses why she is joining the newest flotilla and what’s at stake

New Articles from Tempest for 09/01/2025

"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."

"The Democratic Party specifically, because it is a party dominated by the capitalist class, sabotages our class’ fight against the authoritarian and reactionary tendencies of the Republicans."

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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."

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.

"We can’t respond to Trump unless we’re 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." tempestmag.org/2025/08/stri...