Tempest Collective
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A revolutionary socialist organizing project in the U.S. https://tempestmag.org/
"For many years our job was unmasking the labor exploitation at the heart of bipartisan immigration policy. Now we must counter the divisive ethnonationalist hate being sold to the native born working class."
Trump's ethnonationalist immigration agenda
Trump's second-term immigration agenda marks a historical shift from labor management to ethnonationalism, demanding a new left strategy.
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How Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project
Revolutionary Futures
Promise Li delivers a talk that uses Luxemburg’s “Reform or Revolution” to describe how students can the workforce as Marxists.
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"Whatever political force came to power after Assad’s fall, it inherited a multitude of political, social, and economic challenges. However, the policies of the current Syrian authorities have exacerbated these difficulties instead of resolving them."
Frustration and anger on Syria’s streets
Joseph Daher reports on a surge of protest in Syria in 2026.
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United Left Platform statement on the escalation of state-sponsored murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine by the Trump administration and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers
Standing up to MAGA’s war against the people
The ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, have reignited public rage.
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Sam Friedman argues for the connection between the Left’s principled defense of the rights of national self-determination, in places like Iran and Ukraine, with the historic development of capitalism and imperialism and the movements which arose in struggle against them
Solidarity without exception
Sam Friedman argues for the Left’s principled defense of the rights of national self-determination in places like Iran and Ukraine.
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The Revolution contained democratic and egalitarian possibilities that were defeated through political struggle rather than cultural destiny
Iran’s Revolution was not destined to end in clerical rule
Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that the outcome of the Iranian Revolution was not inevitable - its possibilities were defeated through political struggle.
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"Defense campaigns must treat the courtroom not as a site of justice, but as one terrain within a broader strategy of class struggle."
Two cases, one tradition
Blanca Missé argues that the legal repression of activists calls for a political response inside the courtroom linked to organizing on the outside.
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"It’s a satirical comedy packed with practical special effects. It is also an unapologetically socialist film from an openly Marxist director."
Afro-surrealism with a banging soundtrack
Glenn Allen reviews Boots Riley's new film, I Love Boosters, arguing that what makes it distinctive is the clarity of its class politics.
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"The executive has acquired real autonomy from the established class-fractional coalitions of the neoliberal order and the administrative apparatus is being remade on patrimonial principles, with personal loyalty replacing rule-bound office-holding as the central administrative criterion."
Patrimonial Bonapartism
Anthony Teso makes the case for seeing Trump’s regime as patrimonial and Bonapartist in character rather than fascist or populist-authoritarian.
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The Ukrainian soldiers interviewed here have ideas that diverge from the politics of the Tempest Collective, but their words offer important insights into who is fighting the war, how it’s being fought, and the role of the Left in the rank and file of the Ukrainian armed resistance.
From squats to trenches
Paweł Jędral reports on the role of an eco-anarchist collective in the Ukrainian resistance to Russian occupation.
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"When I saw violence, it was violence coming from law enforcement."
Solidarity with striking ICE hostages!
An activist speaks on their experiences organizing in support of the strikers and their families at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center.
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Delegates from Unite all Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the class struggle movement of the UAW, representing UAW members across the country, led the effort to divest
UAW divests from Israel bonds
After UAWD members forced the amendment onto the Constitutional Convention agenda, UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s Israel bonds.
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"We call on activists, trade unionists, students, organizers and people everywhere to condemn these attacks on free speech and to defend the right of people everywhere to organize and defend themselves."
United Left Platform stands in solidarity with Minnesota and Michigan activists facing state repression
A United Left Platform statement in solidarity for fifteen anti-ICE activists in Minnesota and eight pro-Palestinian activists in Michigan.
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Tempest is co-sponsoring this meeting on the uprising in Bolivia
"Our participation was extremely important both for the Palestinian movement and for Ukrainian society. It is an expression of genuine internationalism."
Ukrainians in solidarity with Palestine
Ashley Smith interviews Ukrainian leftist and activist Andriy Movchan about the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza.
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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."
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.
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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."
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.
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The history of the Anti Nazi League holds valuable lessons for fighting the far right today
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.
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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."
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.
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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."
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.
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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."
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.
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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.
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.
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