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A revolutionary socialist organizing project in the U.S. tempestmag.org

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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 09/28/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A video summary of our recent article on abolition
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"If you abandon the idea of a rupture, and simply embrace gradualism, you necessarily give up the final goal: socialism of any kind in practice."
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Workers will fight for their self-interest
Kim Moody critiques Vivek Chibber's argument in favor of market socialism and argues that Chibber misidentifies both why the communist states fell and why a revolutionary rupture with capitalism remai...
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 09/14/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"From halting fossil fuel infrastructure, closing data centers, taking back public water supplies, and demanding public housing and transit to the struggle for a free Palestine and end to genocide, everything has an ecological dimension."
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Confronting the ecological crisis
Ian Angus’s latest book, "Metabolic Rifts," makes an important contribution to guiding a socialist response to our ecological crisis.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Faced with Trump’s deployment of the government police state, we should be demanding massive cuts to police, ICE, CBP, and the military and redistribution of that money to social programs that provide homes, jobs, education, and healthcare."
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In defense of abolition
In defense of defund the police and abolish ICE movements, and in response to the growing anti-abolition and anti-woke political discourse.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Working-class people have had to face the consequences of the earthquakes without wages, savings, or social protection, living in extreme precarity and appalling poverty."
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Venezuela’s earthquakes struck a society already in crisis
Venezuelan socialist Gonzalo Gómez gives an interview one month after two devastating earthquakes struck the country.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 09/07/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"It is an urgent priority to build working class solidarity against Trump’s assaults. Political clarity in this moment is a life and death matter, and we cannot afford to have illusions in the two-party system."
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How do we stop the bloodshed?
After the ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, the Left must build and support independent immigrant defense networks.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The most important check on repression by the capitalist state is the organization and action by the working class and the oppressed
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Trump's legal conspiracy (part two)
In part two of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration's efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the resistance he met in Lo...
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 08/31/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the devastating results of the Prairieland case
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Trump's legal conspiracy (part one)
The Trump administration is weaponizing the courts under his NSPM-7 guidance to attack activists as "terrorists."
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 08/24/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Speeches in court by Russian activists who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were handed long jail sentences for doing so
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Try me for treason
"Try Me for Treason; Anti-war Protesters’ Speeches in the Russian Courts" is a 2026 film featuring excerpts from four speeches.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Kirstin Roberts traces how capitalism, in contrast to pre-class-societies, fosters images of children as incomplete victims or threats in the context of the capitalist nuclear family–not as beings with personhood and rights
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Childhood and Marxism
Capitalism does not treat children as beings with personhood and rights. A radical re-envisioning of childhood and family is necessary.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 08/17/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The climate crisis is also a crisis of class power, and adaptation without transformation is, in reality, an accommodation of the class divide."
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The smoke is at our door
Julia Corrado connects the impacts of climate change, environmental disaster, capitalism, and the Canadian wildfires.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"We built structures and helped people discover their own ability to organize."
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Building an anti-fascist city
A conversation with anti-fascist organizers of a mass action against the far right in Erfurt, Germany, on July 4.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Debates among the International Socialists in 1976–77 offer lessons for socialists today
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The promise of workers’ power
Bill Roberts examines organizational debates among the International Socialists (IS) in 1976–77.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 08/10/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Solidarity’s membership has been affected by the same objective factors that have fragmented the rest of the far left."
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Party Time? Setting the record straight
Giselle Gerolami responds to Charlie Post on the strengths and weaknesses of left organization, including Solidarity, of which she is a member.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 08/03/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"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."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"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."
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Frustration and anger on Syria’s streets
Joseph Daher reports on a surge of protest in Syria in 2026.
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 07/20/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Revolution contained democratic and egalitarian possibilities that were defeated through political struggle rather than cultural destiny
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 07/13/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Defense campaigns must treat the courtroom not as a site of justice, but as one terrain within a broader strategy of class struggle."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"It’s a satirical comedy packed with practical special effects. It is also an unapologetically socialist film from an openly Marxist director."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"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."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 07/06/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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.
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 06/29/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"When I saw violence, it was violence coming from law enforcement."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"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."
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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 Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Tempest is co-sponsoring this meeting on the uprising in Bolivia
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 06/22/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Our participation was extremely important both for the Palestinian movement and for Ukrainian society. It is an expression of genuine internationalism."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"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."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 06/15/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"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."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The history of the Anti Nazi League holds valuable lessons for fighting the far right today
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"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."
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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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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New Articles from Tempest for 06/08/2026
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"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."
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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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