Tempest

14/07/2025

New Articles from Tempest for 07/14/2025 -

A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org

13/07/2025

The island nation of Taiwan has been a battleground for competing empires for centuries. Now, as the world’s leading producer of advanced microchips, Taiwan and its people are caught in the crosshairs of two imperial rivals: the US and China.

13/07/2025

'Because of the weaponization of antisemitism in the West, it is crucial that there are groups of publicly identified Jews who say: “No, this is not—these people do not speak in my name. We oppose this. We stand with the Palestinians.”'

Sherry Wolf and Charlie Post chart the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and argue for the importance of openly organizing as anti-Zionist Jews.

11/07/2025

"I care about winning pro-worker reforms and defeating the political forces who oppose those reforms... For my part, I think if we commit in advance to working within the Democratic Party and doing politics in the usual way we will lose that fight."

What does Mamdani's win mean for the left debate about whether to work within the Democratic Party or to build outside of it?

08/07/2025

The Community Self-Defense Coalition LA held a news conference Monday, marking 30 days of resistance against the assault by federal authorities on L.A. communities. This is organizer Héctor Rivera.

Héctor Rivera: “Stand up and organize in your communities. This is the cutting edge of the author...

08/07/2025

Keegan O'Brien interviews the Gender Liberation Movement's Eliel Cruz about fighting for q***r liberation in the face of rightwing antitrans scapegoating.

07/07/2025

"We are in a period of remarkable independent political activation. Mamdani was the beneficiary of this much bigger, broader working-class, bottom-up democratic surge. It’s time to take the next steps to building a future free from the inevitable failure of Democratic Party reform efforts and let loose the strength of a real movement to change the foundations of our society."

Although the project of reforming the Democratic Party from within is a non-starter, BC Hamilton cautions socialists against mere dismissal of Zohran Mamdani.

07/07/2025

New Articles from Tempest for 07/07/2025 -

A digest of recently published articles on Tempest: www.tempestmag.org

04/07/2025

Charles Post reviews Sungur Savran and E. Ahmet Tonak, In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism.

03/07/2025

We're at Socialism 2025 in Chicago. Fantastic speakers and meetings all weekend. Visit our table outside the bookstore.

30/06/2025

"Our resistance must build independent and democratic organizations for class and social struggle, oppose all of President Trump’s attacks on the exploited and oppressed, and organize."

The Tempest Collective argues that now is the time to throw ourselves into movements opposing President Trump.