Resisting the backlash
The fight to defend Black studies
by Dana CloudA Tempest Collective event on Sunday, March 26 at 2 pm EDT.
Justice for Tyre Nichols! Solidarity against police murder!
A Tempest Collective Statement
by TempestThe Tempest editorial board and the Tempest Collective stand in solidarity with the family and communities of Tyre Nichols, who was murdered by police on January 7, 2023.
Staughton Lynd (1929–2022)
In remembrance
by Erik KerlEric Kerl offers his personal reminiscence of Staughton Lynd, who died on November 17 at the age of 92. The article first ran in the Haymarket Books blog.
Reflections on the 2020 uprising
by Mara Chinelli
Mara Chinelli looks back on the 2020 rebellion that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota and its reverberations across the country, including in New York City.
Remembering Alan Grant
The idiosyncratic politics of the late comic writer
by Hank KennedyHank Kennedy remembers the life of comic book writer Alan Grant and the Left politics found in some of his most well-known works including Detective Comics, Batman, and Shadow of the Bat.
Why I joined Tempest
The need for political organization and community has never been more urgent
by Donna MurchIn the first of an ongoing series of personal contributions, Donna Murch shares her reasons for becoming a member of the Tempest Collective.
Assata Taught Me
A conversation with Donna Murch and Naomi Murakawa
by Naomi MurakawaDonna Murch’s latest book is Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives. Naomi Murakawa spoke to her soon after its release.
A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney
A kick-off talk from Chinedu Chukwudinma
by Chinedu ChukwudinmaA presentation by Chinedu Chukwudinma at a Tempest panel event on June 22, 2022.
A new era of labor revolt (1966)
On the job vs. official unions
by Stan WeirIn the mid-1960s, in the midst of Black urban revolt and radicalization on campuses, the U.S. working class was supposedly bought off and inactive. Worker-revolutionary Stan Weirdisagreed. In this 1966 speech, he detailed the broad stirrings of a rank and file rebellion—a revolt with roots in unbearable workplace conditions and a deep feeling that “something’s basically wrong with American life.”
Breaking free from the “continuous loop of Black death”
For George Floyd and Buffalo
by TempestStatement from the Tempest Editorial Board on the second anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd and in the wake of the white supremacist killing of ten Black people in Buffalo on May 14.