Video interview with Thomas Weyts of Belgium on the European aid convoy to Ukraine. Full transcript below interview. Send donations to: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=5YZP4QPBCD3FL John Reimann So we’re talking with Thomas Weyts in Belgium, […]
As my neighbor, a middle aged black woman, rolled past me she flashed a big smile. “We won!” she proclaimed. “Yeah, the KKK Party got its ass kicked,” I replied. She smiled […]
It’s impossible to have any certainty about what will happen in these elections, but if I had to make a bet, I’d bet that the Republicans will have a massive wipeout and […]
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Preview of soon-to-be-published memoirs of “Oaklandsocialist”, John Reimann. These memoirs recount my experiences, thoughts and activities from the 1950s to the present. Scroll down to bottom to see full table of contents. […]
Statement from Ukraine’s Sotsialny Rukh (Social Movement) on the elections in Serbia and Brazil. Note that Sotsialny Rukh rises above the fact that Lula is a Putin apologist to see his electoral […]
When Mr. Finance Capital himself (AKA Robert Rubin) and the Committee to Defend Finance Capital (AKA the Wall St. Journal editorial board) attack Trump on two different but equally important grounds, do […]
By Yorgos Mitralias Neither the radical and historic French mass social movement, nor those in Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Albania—and who knows what other European countries—are alone in the world. By […]
The absence of the working class as an independent force on the world stage is adding to the confusion of the left, socialist and otherwise. And by accepting this situation and basing […]
Trump-Putin: The Mutual Support Deal Between Two War Criminals in Jeopardy! By Yorgos Mitralias On September 1, when we reported on a likely quid pro quo deal between Trump and Putin, involving […]
From the United States to Spain and from Germany to France, young people are turning to the radical left! by Yorgos Mitralias From now on, this is no longer a mere supposition […]
When George Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, his strategy was to overwhelm the Iraqis with violence so that they would feel that resistance was useless. He called it “shock and awe.” […]
DSA and other socialists should stop ignoring Trump’s threats to steal the midterm elections. The more they ignore this threat, the more they leave running room for Trump’s Nazi-friendly opponents like Tucker […]
Dear friends and comrades, I live in northeastern Germany, and this year extreme heat and drought caused us to lose several bodies of water where we usually swam and fished in the […]
Like almost all would-be dictators, Trump thrives off of chaos. He took another step in creating it at his “Trumpapalooza” convention in Dallas, where he had his cult followers swear the following […]
On the morning of 09/11/2001 I got up and drive to work across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, just as I had been doing every weekday morning for months. I was working […]
In working on my soon-to-be-published memoirs, I realized that I have hundreds of photos, made over many years of attending different protests and political events. Many of them were here in Oakland, […]
Elections are a means of checking the worst excesses of the politicians. Just like the right to freedom of speech or free assembly, elections are a vital part of democratic rule by […]
When the need to extricate themselves from their quagmires grips Trump and Putin by the throat ! by Yorgos Mitralias Those who call themselves “pacifists” and have been fighting for more than […]
Oaklandsocialist talked with a worker who follows military affairs and also the U.S. security apparatus closely. John Reimann You were talking before about an article from the Financial Times about this guy […]
DSA appears to be gearing up to try to replace the Green Party and run a candidate for president… in 2028. That is the tenor of the circular sent out by DSA’s […]
I went to Ferguson in 2014 shortly after Michael Brown was killed. I took hours of video and 100s of photos. Just today I started looking through some of it in working […]
Donald Trump is organizing a legal version of January 6, 2020. If he succeeds, all other democratic rights will be sharply curtailed. Here is what he is doing: Attack on Mail-in voting […]
On February 28, Trump and Netanyahu went to war against Iran. In doing so, and without even realizing it, Trump is reenacting the failed view of the Neoconservatives. Their first failure was […]
In the past, the way was opened for far right domestic policies by starting with the intellectual arguments for them. Now, Israel supporters are concerned about the collapsing support for Israel and […]
On Thursday (July 16), Trump gave his speech that was promised to be a “bombshell” expose of election fraud. Two days later, the Wall St. Journal editorial board critiqued his speech. They […]
Oaklandsocialist interviewed Anand Gopal, who is the author of “Days of Love and Rage”, which is about the Syrian revolution in one relatively small town – Manbij. I’ve probably read 5oo-750 books […]
There is a secret drone on the wall of Trump’s Oval office. It has a camera and recorder. Oaklandsocialist has access to it. Here’s what we picked up: Trump was angry. Almost […]
Will the stupidity of the “socialist left” combine with the selfish shortsightedness of tens of millions of voters to deliver a victory for the fascist-connected Republicans in November? Consider these two sets […]
Every day, Trump is resembling his bestie, Vladimir Putin, whose rule despite important differences resembles that of his historic hero, Stalin. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is proving correct that old adage that […]
You couldn’t have a better image than Trump signing the “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) with Iran at the historic Versailles Palace where Germany surrendered, marking the end of WW I. Meanwhile, […]
From Hitler’s Olympics to Trump’s World Cup: a connection that speaks volumes about the state of our world! By Yorgos Mitralias The first surprise in store for us with this 2026 World […]
From Ukraine to the Persian Gulf, the superpowers no longer call the shots! By Yorgos Mitralias The first major lesson from the wars in Ukraine and the Persian Gulf is already glaringly […]
“Is that it?” wrote the Wall St. Journal editorial board about the Trump-Iran truce which masquerades as a “peace deal”. They entitled their editorial “Will Trump Bail Out Iran’s Regime?” Summary of […]
Oaklandsocialist spoke with Andril Movchan, a Ukrainian refugee living in Barcelona, who went on the recent Freedom Flotilla intending to bring relief to Gaza. Here is a transcript of what he reported […]
On Thursday, May 7, thousands of people gathered on the Capitol mall to celebrate National Prayer Day. That event gave a glmpse of a comng campaign which we must not ignore. […]
Israel: From Triumph to Triumph Until Its “Final Catastrophe”! By Yorgos Mitralias A few days after the massacre of Deir Yassin, those who represented in the US the organizations that perpetrated the […]
Oaklandsocialist recently interviewed Scottish socialist Sean Cudden on the outcome of the recent British elections. Here is the video of full interview. Full transcript below. John Reimann We’re talking with Sean Cudden […]
How serious a threat is the hantavirus outbreak emenating from that cruise ship? If you listen to Trump, it’s no threat at all. When asked if we should be concerned, Trump said: […]
I just turned 80 years old. Here’s what I have to say about it:
Is Israel fascist? That’s what we have to ask after publication of this article by NY Times journalist Nicholas Kristoff. It documents the systematic rape of Palestinian men, women and even children […]
In 2024, Oaklandsocialist published an article explaining how Putin was drawing the left into his far right web. Today, Tucker Carlson is taking it one step further. He’s drawing a far wider […]
It is not for nothing that Jason Zengerle came to write the biography of Tucker Carlson, Hated by all the Right People, once he realized that none of Trump’s subordinates – not […]
Drawing by Sonia Mitralia When Iran Wins by Fully Exploiting the Gaping Flaws of Trump’s War! By Yorgos Mitralias What initial assessment can we make of the war in the Persian Gulf, […]
Alleged statement of alleged White House Correspondents dinner alleged perp. Cole Allen. Media outlets are not publishing his statement anywhere now other than the first few lines. Oaklandsocialist is posting it […]
From March 26-29 an international “anti fascist” conference was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It turned out, though, that it was not about anti-fascism at all, as I point out below. The main […]
Video interview with John Ferretti and Seth Rosenberg of the Local 100 Fight Back Coalition. Full transcript below the video. John Reimann We’re talking here with Seth Rosenberg and John Ferretti. They’re […]
By Michael Karadjis You can tell how bad things have become in the Mideast when it is an Arab government, Lebanon, begging for direct negotiations with Israel, and Israel rejecting the idea […]
Exit Orban, Brown International mourns, Putin and Trump grieve! By Yorgos Mitralias Obviously, Orban’s nemesis Peter Magyar is a die-hard conservative, and just two years ago, he held a high-ranking position in […]
“Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.” So said George Schultz, former president of Bechtel Corporation and former member […]
Trapped in Iran, Trump can only be stopped by the American people! By Yorgos Mitralias While, despite the two-week ceasefire, the war continues to rage, claiming thousands of lives and causing widespread […]
First Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran civilization. He was forced to realize that he’d painted himself into a corner, and he was desperate to escape, so he signed some sort […]
Completely aside from whether his bombing holocaust will include bombing Iran’s nuclear-fired power plant in Bushehr, which “would be catastrophic for the Gulf” writes al Jazeera, this crazed war criminal in Washington […]
April 20, 2026 The day after Trump dropped “tactical” nuclear bombs on Tehran and a couple of other targets I asked one of the former Trump voters at work what he thought. […]
“There is something more dangerous to Netanyahu and his entire war machine than all missiles and drones that are now hitting Israel: the political consciousness of the Iranian people.” Siyâvash Shahabi, Firenexttime.net […]
Trump blustered on for 28 minutes last night, lying and bragging as usual. Hidden within that speech were hints of his war aims, a denial that the aims had failed (which they […]
Mordechai Vanunu: A magnificent traitor to Israel! by Yorgos Mitralias It took an Iranian missile striking the Israeli city of Dimona for us to remember (once again) the incredible story of Mordechai […]
“The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the sons”, or in modern language the crimes of imperialism shall not be washed away by history… as long as capitalism and imperialism […]
Najes Bajoghli is an anthropolgist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University. She is also an immigrant from Iran, and she recently wrote a fascinating aritlce in Foreign Affairs journal entitled “Iran’s […]
Introduction A historic task has been placed in the hands of the people of Kurdistan. They may not have asked for it, but that doesn’t matter. It is here, imposed by the […]
Trump knows which way the political winds are blowing. That’s why, according to the Wall St. Journal, he’s told his aides that “he wants to wrap up the conflict in the coming […]
The WSJ editors are worried that Trump might back down without killing enough Iranians and without destroying enough of Iranian society. They know their man, who’s infamous for his short sightedness. Trump […]
By Michael Karadjis So let’s get this straight: after 3 weeks of horrific bombing of Iran, killing off its top leadership, hundreds of schoolgirls, bombing oil storage facilities and gasfields, tearing apart […]
Libertarians vs. Neoconservatives War is splitting the Trumpist leadership! by Yorgos Mitralias To say, as we did in our previous article eloquently titled “Trump Trapped Himself,” that Trump is falling into the […]
There seems to be two main organized factions of the MAGA movement and the Trump regime itself as far as his war against Iran. On one side is the populist faction led […]
Day turned into night as a cloud of toxic smoke hovered over Tehran, whose streets were like a scene from hell, aflame with streams of burning fuel. All this was courtesy of […]
Trump trapped himself A macabre dance of vampires in the Persian Gulf! By Yorgos Mitralias And after Iran, what? Because the war against the ayatollahs’ Iran will not last forever. And Trump […]
A small group of working class socialists have agreed to this statement on Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war against Iran and the freedom struggle inside the country. (NOTE: Also see Persian and Arabic […]
The left in San Francisco rallied against Trump’s bombing of Iran while ignoring the nature of the fascistic Iranian regime; the pro-Pahlavi Iranians supported the bombing.
This is what the war and the situation looks like from within Iran from Golshan Fathi, civil activist living in Tehran Golshan Fathi, a civil activist living in Tehran, has described what […]
The text below is a short note by a blogger in Tehran, a comrade and political activist: یادداشتی کوتاه از یک رفیق در تهران. متن پایینتر. Life in Tehran: under the shadow […]
Igor Tokovenko is the co-founder of the Ukraine Labor Party and member of its Political (executive) Council. Here he talks about the political situation in Ukraine – including workers struggles and public […]
Donald Trump is in hiding. Why is that? Note: Just as we were concluding this video we received information that indicates that the real object of the attack is Iranian Kurdistan. Therefore, […]
The Trump/Vance/Miller Triumvirate is the real weapon of mass destruction! Last night, Oaklandsocialist’s article warned of the Triumvirate’s coming attack on Iran. Within hours of our publication, that attack had begun. Here […]
Update: It is several hours since this article was originally posted. CNN is carrying the following news: US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran. This will play perfectly into the hands of the […]
John Reimann We’re very happy to be talking with Philip Obaji, who is in Nigeria, and he is described by the International Center for journalists as, “The foremost journalist, reporting for international […]
From one Munich to another But what security are they talking about? by Yorgos Mitralias Drawing by Sonia Mitralia At first glance, everything separates the Munich Conference of 1938 from the Munich […]
I wrote this pamphlet in 1980 I believe it was. It predicted what has happened in the Carpenters Union.The coming crisis in the carpenters union
Introduction This is the second part in a two-part series on Jeffrey Epstein. In the first part we considered – and rejected – the claims that Epstein was acting as an agent […]
Who really was Jeffrey Epstein? Was he just some unusually monstrous individual who managed to draw all kinds of rich and powerful men into his web? That is the general narrative that […]
We were interviewed on Hard Knock Radio by Davey D Cook. In this interview we discussed the underlying significance of Trump’s racist video and, in relation to this, the potential role of […]
While the minority of voters – the hardcore MAGAites – will love it, Bondi and her puppeteer, Donald Trump, know that this sort of behavior will not be well received by the […]
Facts versus fabrications Four years of aggression from Russian Goliath, and Ukrainian David is still standing! By Yorgos Mitralias ” Who could have foreseen, on 24 or 25 February 2022, that one […]
A group of concerned union members has organized this sign-on statement/petition. It speaks for itself. Since it was written, Trump broadcasted his racist video whose larger message was that he has every […]
Trump’s racist meme of the Obamas is only a smaller part of the real threat we face. Sure, Trump is a racist, but what’s new about that? He’s said the African countries […]
Why was Tulsi Gabbard at the DOJ raid on the Fulton County election board? How is her presence connected to Trump’s plans to steal the upcoming elections? What is the alternative to […]
Attention, union members and union supporters: History has placed a tremendous task on your shoulders. You did not ask for it. That does not matter because here it is. It may seem […]
The turning point Minneapolis rises up, Trump falters! by Yorgos Mitralias As the tragic and shocking events in Minneapolis mean that the crisis in the United States under Trump now seems to […]
Powerful interview by Terrell Jermaine Starr with Nigerian journalist, Philip Obaji. Russians are killing Africans in Africa and no one is talking about it.
Within 24 hours of the January 23 mass protest against ICE in Minneapolis, the Miller/Vance/Trump presidency had its response: They executed another protester, this time ICU nurse Alex Pretti. As we go […]
Update, update, update: Since the publication of this article, ICE has murdered another protester. Watch video here. That is the answer of the Trump/Miller/Vance administration to yesterday’s mass protest. The response should […]
Iranian refugee Siyaves Azeri gives the following report. It is important not only because it gives an update, but also because it gives a glimpse of what the monarchist supporters of Pahlevi […]
We reprint here this article by Joseph Grosso, from his substack Left Critique of the Left. This particular post can be found here. Campism Against Freedom From Iran to Ukraine by Joseph […]
Trump in Greenland: old-fashioned colonialism and acceleration of the climate catastrophe! By Yorgos Mitralias Almost everyone is currently talking, and rightly so, about Trump’s clearly stated intention to occupy and annex Greenland […]
Oaklandsocialist Note: This interview was conducted in the latter part of December, 2025. It explores further developments since the interview we did with Sean Cudden. Because of intervening events, we have been […]
ICE’s Murder of Renee Good and its non-fatal shooting of another protester did not quell the movement. Just the opposite. As ICE saturated the air with tear gas in at least […]
Since we published our article on the Iran revolution, there have been some new developments: CNN reports that “thousands” have been murdered by the regime and 18,000 have been imprisoned. The […]
Below is an assessment of who is likely to replace the Iranian theocratic regime if it falls. It is by Iranian refugee Siyâvash Shahabi, who also produces the excellent blog site The Fire […]
Fascist Stephen Miller rants on about “We’re a superpower”. He means abroad and at home. Here’s the result and how the labor movement can stop him & his ilk:
“You don’t get our oil. Says fucking who? We will come in and we will…. We will kill all of you. Our military will come in and wipe out your regime and […]
On Dec. 23 three of the six person Trump majority on the US Supreme Court (John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Matt Kavanaugh), declined to give Trump an early Christmas present. They […]
Trump and his Brown International: Following in the footsteps of Hitler and Nazism! by Yorgos Mitralias The “National Security Strategy” published by the White House in early December is a very important […]
In two weeks, Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor of New York. What are the perspectives for his administration? To answer that, in part we must understand the political […]
When a certain left participates in the far right’s campaign against Mamdani By Yorgos Mitralias Where to begin and where to end? In our countries, many people on the left seem to […]
Introduction: Oaklandsocialist presents the first in a two part series on what’s happening in Britain. In this interview, Scottish worker Sean Cudden discusses: The British Labour Party Reform UK Party and Nigel […]
Trump: Fortunes and misfortunes of a pyromaniac peacemaker! by Yorgos Mitralias The Trump-Mamdani meeting at the White House was not only “strange” and “surprising” given everything that had preceded it. Above all, […]
There are three parties involved in the “peace” negotiations currently underway in Geneva: The first is Donald Trump. Due to financial and political connections and also through his Eurasianist world view (For […]
Did the Trump Mamdani press conference “make love- not war” as Politico described it , or was it two opponents feeling each other out, seeking an opening or advantage while trying not […]
Trump/Project 2025 may be a lot weaker than we think. The capitalist base upon which it relies is weakening. This weakening base is happening in: The federal judiciary The federal law-enforcement agencies, […]
Because we do not forget and because we do not want to forget, we are republishing this text, first written and published in 1998 in “Epohi,” with the introduction that accompanied it […]
Oaklandsocialist interviewed democratic socialist Vermont State Senator Tanya Vyhovsky, who toured Ukraine last summer. Here in this video, she talks about her knowledge of and experiences in Ukraine and why socialists must […]
It wasn’t just those 8 Democratic senators who caved in; this was set up from the very top – from Chuck Schumer. It reminds me of this con game they ran […]
Zohran Mamdani has helped set off a revolt among New York City’s youth and even beyond. Now, a layer of the Democratic Party leadership and their talking heads want to “support” him […]
DSA organized an election watch party in Oakland last night. There were something between 100 to 200 people there. I attended and interviewed several people. While not a full sample, I still […]
Jon Stewart (“The Daily Show) interviews Zohran Mamdani. His victory seems almost certain. The top capitalists are throwing millions at Cuomo in a desperate attempt to stop Mamdani, but at a certain […]
When Trump revives eugenics responsible for the worst crimes against humanity! by Yorgos Mitralias It must be said that what was unthinkable—and unacceptable—just a few months ago is now becoming commonplace: Trump is a […]
Report and commentary on the No Kings March in Oakland. Includes signs various people made and the (lack of) serious role of the unions vs. the extreme seriousness of Trump’s reaction. And […]
“Within hours of the announcement [of a peace deal], videos from across the Gaza Strip showed children dancing in the streets, people cheering and families embracing as the news of a long […]
With Greta Thunberg For a left that fights Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin, without distinction! By Yorgos Mitralias But what peace plan in Palestine are they talking about? The one that, in its […]
For New Yorkers the Mamdani movement can be a means of making life better for themselves. It can make rent, transportation, and child care more affordable. That economic change will also help […]
The most recent opinion poll, taken September 22-27, reveals a lot about the thinking in the United States. In fact, some of the results reveal even more than that. According to this […]
FOR AN ECOSOCIALIST DEGROWTH Why republish the text “For an ecosocialist degrowth,” which was already published in several languages more than three and a half years ago? First, because its initial publication […]
Four days ago, Oaklandsocialist warned about the then upcoming meeting of all the top brass with Hegseth and Trump. Pay attention to Trump/Hegseth’s steps in the U.S. military! we wrote. We explained […]
Trump personal takeover of US military Attempted to use military to overturn 2020 election Likely election losses in 2026 Supreme Court and right wing legal theories Popular resistance and U.S. labor […]
Poland has moved to center stage in European news, both for its political developments inside the country and because of Russian aggression against Poland. Here, we talk with long time Polish socialist […]
No illusions: neither Zionism nor its state can be reformed! By Yorgos Mitralias Although it may seem inappropriate to talk about a few Israeli hostages held by Hamas at a time when […]
Note: this is the second part of a two part series on the murder of Charlie Kirk and the fallout of that event. The first part, which, among other things explained the […]
As opposed to the Democratic Party leadership, and even as opposed to the soft left like Jacobin Magazine, congresswoman Jasmine Crockett doesn’t pull any punches regarding the murder of Charlie Kirk and […]
In this article How liberals and the soft left covered up for Charlie Kirk Who Kirk really was. The right wing background on his accused assassin Threats against “the left” Concluding thoughts […]
The walls are closing in on Trump, and his reaction is to become increasingly repressive and violent. Is the Mamdani Movement and the resistance in general prepared for it? Consider what is […]
Listen to and learn from the survivors of the Epstein/Maxwell child sex trafficking ring!
First Los Angeles. Then Washington DC. Next up Chicago. These are the first targets for Trump sending troops out into the streets. Trump’s first term To understand what this is really all […]
Come November 5 the Mamdani Movement will most likely be facing the following situation: Mamdani will have been overwhelmingly elected mayor of New York, possibly with an outright majority of votes; and […]
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist The most dangerous time for any repressive regime is when it tries to reform itself. Then splits develop in the regime, opening the way for a movement from below. […]
The Putin Trump alliance advances towards mutual goals: Ukraine for Putin, Nobel Prize for Trump On August 15, the two most powerful ethno-nationalist, racist, homophobic, and sexist leaders in the world – […]
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist Today, defenders of the genocidal state of Israel throw the charge “antisemitism” at anybody who makes legitimate criticisms of that state or of Zionism in general. We must not […]
On Aug. 1, Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for having reported on negative numbers for the previous month. Here, conservative NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman unloads on […]
Here, in this 1986 speech, then Senator Joe Biden explains why the US must support and rely upon Israel, and Israel alone, in the so-called “Middle East”. He explains that while the […]
“I remember every friend, every person who I protested next to, every friend who was tortured to death. They didn’t die in vain to get this. They died to get freedom. They […]
Sotsialy Rukh (Social Movement) is a broad-based socialist group in Ukraine. They have always opposed Russia’s invasion while at the same time taking an independent (and critical) position towards Zelensky. Here is […]
Zohran Mamdani already looked like he was going to win the Mayor race in New York City. His chances look even better since his two main opponents, Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams, […]
Elective affinities of executioners The Rafah Ghetto like the Warsaw Ghetto By Yorgos Mitralias “And now we ask: How can you eat, sleep, live? How guilty will you feel in your hearts […]
“Better to break the law than to break the poor.” A lesson for the “Mamdani Movement”: The Battle of Liverpool, 1983-’85: Introduction The Mamdani Movement is already facing resistance not only […]
I have a good friend and trusted associate who is a server at one of the most elite private clubs in Manhattan. He overheard the following conversation between two of the most […]
Introduction Opposition to Israel is growing, especially among the youth around the world. Every attempt to silence this opposition backfires. Right now, that attempt to silence it focuses on the youth culture […]
A spectre – a ghost – is haunting the Democratic party. That spectre has a smiling face and a name to go with it – Zohran Mamdani. In fact, he is haunting […]
by Siyâvash Shahabi A very generous friend invited me to the ancient theater of Epidaurus to watch a performance of Antigone. And in this heat and isolation of Athens, why should I […]
By Siyâvash Shahabi The final result of this 12-days war is not just the intensification of repression inside Iran under the name of “defending the homeland” or “fighting espionage.” According to reports, […]
Were Trump and the IRI regime just performing for their bases? And will the performances resolve the crisis? Let’s take those questions one at a time: Both the Trump and the Iranian […]
A few facts are starting emerge as far as the US bombing Iran: The bombing was partially effective, but not fully so. Even the 30,000 lb. “bunker buster” bombs did not accomplish […]
We talked with long time socialist , New York City subway worker and union fighter, John Ferretti, about why he’s supporting Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor. Here is an edited […]
I am so honored that the wonderful Greek artist, Sonia Mitralia, sent me this book of her great drawings. I wish I could read Greek, but even without that, they are great […]
Here are some photos plus a short video of the “No Kings” protest in Oakland yesterday. I mix in photos that give an idea of crowd size (estimated at 10,000) with photos […]
It was pretty clear all along that Trump’s “negotiations” with Iran were a set-up for an attack on that country. He can now say he wanted peace, but Iran’s intransigence made it […]
Too late for Israel and the Israelis to free themselves from their genocidal demons! By Yorgos Mitralias (Note: The news of a likely Israeli strike on Iran makes this article all the […]
A View from Ukraine by Aleksandr Skyba* At present, Ukraine endures a state of war – where every political statement is tested against the harshest of realities. Observing current events in the […]
Trump has sent some 700 U.S. Marines into Los Angeles. He has also deployed thousands of National Guard troops, without the request of California governor Gavin Newsom. Both of these measures are […]
The ICE raids in Los Angeles combined racist anti-immigrant raids with union busting raids. This fact has been hidden by all the media. Also hidden is the failure of the union leadership […]
The bulk of this article was written before the spectacular breakup of the Trump/Musk bromance. That breakup is partly a product of two narcissistic megalomaniacs clashing. Musk’s opposition to the “Big Beautiful […]
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As a follow-up to the interview Oaklandsocialist did with Trevor Ngwane, we post here a documentary made in 1985-86 of the role of the black working class in South Africa during the […]
Here is the full, unedited hour and 45 minute interview/discussion we had with Trevor Ngwane. It can also be heard on oaklandsocialist’s podcast channel.
Here is the most important (and final) portion of our interview with Trevor Ngwane. Trevor explains what happened to the powerful and revolutionary traditions of the movement against apartheid, how it was […]
Here is Part 2 of my interview with Trevor Ngwane. In this interview, he talks about left and right wing populism in South Africa and some other points about current politics in […]
Here is the first part of the interview with Trevor Ngwane. Below it is a transcription. Also, listen to this as a podcast here. This interview has been edited for length. John […]
by Yorgos Mitralias The images of the children of Gaza, which most Western media refuse to show, leave no doubt: they are reminiscent of those of the Nazi extermination camps filmed by […]
By Michael Kradjis read more from him at their anti-imperialism and ours Extermination by hunger happening now. Australian government still “concerned”, manages to actually “condemn”, first time using the word, some extremely […]
by Richard Johnson The UK’s left is changing while the far right are making gains The 1st May election results have landed like a bombshell on British politics confirming that the […]
“Do you have some book recommendations for books you think everyone should read at least once?” asked a young comrade of mine. Here is my answer: First of all, please bear with […]
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: We were at the May Day rally in Berlin. (Video and photos coming.) We talked with a number of groups there, all of whom defended Putin’s invasion of Ukraine […]
Introduction: In the first part of this series we discussed why a nearly exclusively focus on economics is inadequate to oppose Trump and MAGA. Economic self interest is vitally important, but as […]
A movement against Trump is starting to develop. This coincides with the general decline in his support as seen in the opinion polls. The question is what general direction such a movement […]
By Yorgos Mitralias ‘The second story relates to the Wilna ghetto. Until its extermination, some of the men were taken out of the ghetto to work in an arms factory. The director […]
I spent an interesting half-day in court the other day. The court was holding bail hearings for a series of defendants. Every single, one of the defendants, with only one exception, was […]
I was asked about the call for a general strike. Here are my thoughts: A general strike doesn’t happen because a few hundred or even a few thousand people want it; it […]
Reprinted with permission of the author, who also publishes the web site The Fire Next time.net. Here Siyâvash discusses the developing divisions within the regime of the Islamic State of Iran. Such […]
(Oaklandsocialist notes: “Reform UK” is a far right party started by Nigel Farage, who has visited with Trump. Farage was one of the engineers of Brexit. As we can see, Trump’s victory […]
About 5,000 turned out in Oakland for the April 5 “Hands Off” protest. Here is a short video and some of the photos I took. The posters people made up give a […]
Trump claims that in the longer run his tariffs will lead to greater investment in U.S. production and therefore lead to jobs for U.S. workers. Just the opposite will happen. This video […]
A construction worker in Eastern United States that we know reports the following conversation he had with some fellow workers about the effect of Trump’s coming tariffs. We also discuss the economic […]
An apt comparison Trumpism as the Nazism of our time! By Yorgos Mitralias (Introduction: There is serious discussion on whether the United States is now fascist. Nobody can make a serious case […]
The anger at the Trump/Vande/Musk triumvirate is focusing on Elon Musk and his DOGE. Here is a video from the protest at Tesla on Sunday, March 29, in Berkeley.
Almost all those who are not completely absorbed into the Trump/MAGA cult have been shocked at the amazing carelessness/light mindedness at best, and utter stupidity at worst, of the Signal, chat group […]
Here are the first two speakers at the Zoom panel discussion convened by the Italian group “Left for Ukraine”.
I was honored to be invited to participate in a Zoom panel at this conference in Milan, of the Italian group “Left for Ukraine”. Here is a video of my presentation and […]
Oakland is having a special election for mayor and for District 2 of the city council. Here’s a video on the District 2 race. It actually applies to the mayor’s race also. […]
Here is a podcast of the article of this same title. Oaklandsocialist podcasts can be found here.
“Four years of this won’t work, folks.” So spoke Thomas Friedman, prominent conservative New York Times columnist and strategist for/representative of the U.S. capitalist class in a recent column of his entitled […]
About 100 to 200 federal workers held a spirited protest in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco today. It was almost entirely federal workers and their unions, with no sign […]
Like the good fascists they are, Trump and his friends will violate international law and all established rules! by Yorgos Mitralias When, at the beginning of the century, the great American writer […]
To the people of Syria who fought so long and so hard and sacrificed so much to overthrow the criminal Assad dictatorship: As supporters of the Syrian revolution, we wish to advise […]
In the first part of this series we showed how the Silicon Valley venture capitalists had led their class in taking over the MAGA movement and Trump’s second presidency. We showed how […]
The Silicon Valley venture capitalists have taken control of the MAGA movement and the new Trump administration. JD Vance was their intermediary. Their goals are actually even more dangerous than what might […]
On Sunday, March 2, organizers in the Ukrainian-American community held a protest against Trump/Vance channeling Putin when they met with Zelensky. Here is a video of that event, plus some comments below: […]
Putin supporters Trump & Vance sabotaged the White House meeting with Zelensky in order to justify making a deal with Putin which will leave Russia in control of 20% of Ukraine and […]
CNN tends to be like the Democratic Party: booorrring! That’s partly because they always avoid actual confrontation in favor of being nice and polite. Last night, though, CNN’s Van Jones broke the […]
by Yorgos Mitrialis United but desperately alone! United in their slaughter, their bloodshed and their loneliness. And united, too, in the same relentless resistance for life, liberty and national self-determination. The […]
Together with Musk, Vance and Milei Trump the “peacemaker” like Hitler the “chancellor of peace”! by Yorgos Mitralias Friedenskanzler, i.e. Chancellor of Peace. If we tell you that’s what Hitler was […]
With all the turmoil surrounding the Trump/Vance/Musk triumvirate, it is easy to lose track of the turmoil/crisis surrounding a local little corruption issue, which is the issue of the corrupt New York […]
By Michael Karadjis So it’s back to the plan, Israel and Hamas will be, for this weekend anyway, sticking to the plan after all. But an interesting train of events leading to […]
A great text by Nadia Valavani* on the first Tsipras government by Yorgos Mitralias Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: Ten years ago, the left wing Syriza government in Greece refused – for a time – to […]
By “G” in eastern Germany Introduction from Oaklandsocialist: Trump and his MAGA movement are part of a global trend. To understand and oppose it we must see it in that light. That […]
The group “Indivisible” held their weekly protest against Trump by the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. Here’s some photos. At least they’re doing something.
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: It is important to understand how the situation in the U.S. is perceived in Ukraine. Here is the point of view of Alexander Skyba. He is a Ukrainian socialist […]
Video of CNN report that DOGE’s “Big Balls”, who is over the U.S. Treasury Department and has access to all its files, is linked to Russia. After we made this video, CNN […]
“A friend of mine called me yesterday. “John, what the fuck is going on?!!” he demanded.
Why republish a text on Auschwitz and its meaning, written in Greek in the last century? Because, reread today, at a time profoundly marked not only by the genocide of the Palestinians […]
Events here in MAGA land hold lessons for workers of all lands (including Ukraine and Syria). As I write this, the news here in the United States is still filled with discussions […]
by Cloud Sevens “Cloud Sevens” is a worker in Ukraine. Here they report on some of the effects of Trump’s actions in Ukraine and around the world. Earlier this February, Trump issued […]
“I have a dream.” The words reverberated through my head. The date was February 1, 2025, and on that day, the union leadership, and Sean Fain, president of the United Auto Workers […]
This is getting ugly quickly. Trump wasted no time proving that he can learn from experience, and what he’s learned is not to rely on the traditional old-line conservatives. At the celebratory […]
I went to the pre-inauguration protest against Trump in San Francisco. I had a few interesting conversations, especially on what has happened with the unions and how the union leadership is falling […]
A signal on how far Trump will be willing to go as far as unleashing actual fascists on US society will be whether he pardons Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath […]
Last night I had a dream. In it I saw a NY Times headline, “President Trump releases Stewart Rhodes.”1 In that state between consciousness and sleep, my semi-conscious imagination took the dream […]
Introduction: “Frank” is a well-paid white worker and a socialist who lives in a largely white neighborhood in a major East Coast city. In his life, he gets around and talks with […]
The wheels have not fallen off the MAGA bus yet, but the lug nuts are coming loose. Last Sunday, Dec. 22, Oaklandsocialist published an article (Can Trump institute fascism?) which analyzed the […]
In all of history, it’s been the youth who sparked off a wider working class movement. Time for that to happen in the U.S. again.
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The Republicans’ recent budget fiasco, plus one or two other developments, including developments on the labor front, reveal a lot about fissures and conflicts that already exist within the Trump camp and […]
Oaklandsocialist was honored to interview Syrian journalist and freedom fighter, Wael AlAmri.We started by Wael’s talking about the Assad regime and the Syrian revolution. At around 6:35 I asked Wael about his […]
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: This article by Yorgos Mitralias was written before the inspiring overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria. Assad himself, and his mentor Putin, form an important link in the […]
Here is Oaklandsocialist’s video about the reactions, both popular and official, to the assassination of Brian Thompson. We see here why there can never be a left liberal equivalent to the likes […]
The official figures, liberals and conservatives alike, are shocked – shocked I tell you! – at the reaction to the assassination of Brian Thompson. (My personal favorite is “why all this hoopla […]
Bashar al Assad is gone! December 7, 2024 will go down in history as one of the world’s most brutal dictators ever fled the country. Sadnaya prison, that scene of untold horrors […]
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Here is the video of our interview with Craig Unger. Below it is the text of that interview. This interview will also appear on Oaklandsocialist’s podcast. Also, see our review of Craig’s […]
Oaklandsocialist read an important report from inside Aleppo and we reposted it here. We did that after requesting permission and receiving no response. Since then, we were asked to remove it and […]
The claim that Trump stole the election seems to be gathering even more support. So I did a little more research on the claim. As far as I can see, they are […]
by Yorgos Mitralias What to think of Trump’s return to the White House? For the European bourgeoisies and their parties, the answer should be and has been positive and even enthusiastic. But […]
If you prefer to listen to a podcast of my latest article on the setbacks Trump has received, it can be found here.
There is an ancient Greek myth about two monsters, Scylla and Charybdis, who sat on either side of a narrow passage of water. Sailors had to make sure that in avoiding one […]
here is a podcast of my recent article on that issue.
Claims are circulating that the recent election was stolen by hacked voting machines and/or some other means. In this hour of extreme danger, it’s more important than ever to get our facts […]
Oaklandsocialist received the following report from somebody living in rural California: “Things are already getting bad up here again since the orange piece of shit was elected. “In the past week we’ve […]
Introduction This is the second part of a two part series on the perspectives for the coming Trump regime. In Part One we discussed Some of Trump’s major appointments and their significance. […]
“Chaos and repression” are the words that can best sum up the coming Trump regime. This is the environment in which fascism thrives. Facing that, any thinking adult will have experienced anger, […]
Stephan van Baarle, leader of the DENK party, explains what really happened when Israeli soldiers on leave created a riot in Amsterdam when the Israeli soccer team played there.
by Alessandro Morosin To Mr. “never lesser evil” voter: You say you campaigned against Trump and project 2025, but you indeed mightily argued AGAINST voting for Harris. As a fascist Amerika begins […]
Cheryl Zuur is the retired president of AFSCME Local 444 and is the co-chair of the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign. On Sunday, November 10, the USSC held a forum on the election […]
“They are frightened, confused and lonely.” That’s how the worker who reported on the racist and misogynistic and nationalist comments in Oaklandsocialist’s previous post described the mood among tens of millions of […]
A white worker in an East Coast city has sent us this report of what white Trump supporters say. Those are quotes said in front of other (white) people that garnered nods […]
Trump/MAGA channeled the US Nazi rally at the same venue 85 years earlier. Here are video clips of both… and more
Oaklandsocialist comment: Last night in New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the Trump campaigned channeled a U.S. Nazi rally 85 years ago at the same venue. All the most racist memes were […]
Introduction by oaklandsocialist: This article is directly related to the issue of the upcoming elections because of Trump’s close ties to Putin, as Oaklandsocialist has docujmented many times, going back to the […]
By an Irish-American socialist There is a transition taking place in the consciousness of a great number of people who oppose Israeli Apartheid and belligerence to not shirk from accusations of anti-semitism. […]
“We have the power to take an historic stand and defeat this war mongering Senator Harris…. To win this election [the Democrats] need this city [Dearborn], they need this state [Michigan]. We […]
By Reza Fiyouzat The question assumes that the Green Party will get that much of the total votes cast nationally. What That Number Will Do In a system of winner-take-all (except in […]
by Yorgos Mitralias Why has Bibi Netanyahu become the darling and idol of racist, neo-fascist and neo-Nazi right-wing scum in Europe and around the world? The answer is not difficult: these scum […]
Oaklandsocialist introduction: The longshore is the only major industry in the United States that is still nearly 100% union. That along with the central role of international trade made the east coast/Gulf […]
As the Netanyahu government drives towards a regional war, the most important task of socialists is to understand the nature of this ongoing catastrophe, how it got to this state of affairs, […]
Somebody is going to occupy the White House in 2025, and that somebody will either be Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. The question is: “does it matter which one?” Given the crisis […]
by Yorgos Mitralias Worse than Israel’s crimes is the fact that the entire so-called “civilized” world follows and comments on them as if they were just a video game. When, of course, it’s […]
Here is a report from an observer in the South. I had some unfortunate conversations with some young women predominantly that were terrifying. They are all in on anti-reproductive rights (meaning they […]
The Teamsters’ sad state of affairs under Sean O’brien On Sept. 18, the leadership of the Teamsters Union announced that they will not endorse any presidential candidate this year. This is […]
Today, the issue of inflation threatens to help put Trump back into the White House. As a capitalist politician, Harris can neither explain nor deal with the issue adequately. That is why […]
Oaklandsocialist recently carried this interview with the courageous Israeli anti-apartheid activist Ofer Neiman. One issue that really requires further discussion is how far can Israel go in crushing democracy domestically. Recent reports […]
Donald Trump whined that the debate was “stacked” and he and his supporters complained about him having been fact checked in real time. On the other side, Kamala Harris challenged him to […]
By Yorgos Mitralias What follows is not addressed to the right and its supporters (economic, social and other) who – unfortunately – are doing their job very well. What follows is addressed […]
Introduction: Oaklandsocialist analyzes the candidacies of the two main “independent” lefts, Jill Stein and Cornel West. In Part 1 we analyzed the Jill Stein campaign. In Part 2 we analyzed the Cornel West campaign. […]
Georgia prohibits the possession or control of a handgun by any person under age This prohibition does not apply if the underage person is: Attending a hunter education course or a firearms […]
Introduction: Oaklandsocialist analyzes the candidacies of the two main “independent” lefts, Jill Stein and Cornel West. In Part 1 we analyzed the Jill Stein campaign. Here, we discuss the campaign of Cornel […]
Introduction: Oaklandsocialist analyzes the candidacies of the two main “independent” lefts, Jill Stein and Cornel West. Here, in part one, we discuss Jill Stein’s campaign. In Part 2 we will discuss the […]
Oaklandsocialist sent a series of questions to Ofer Neiman, an Israeli activist in Israelis Against Apartheid. Those questions were sent, and answered, before the bodies of the six hostages were discovered. In […]
What would it mean for Trump to return to the White House? Trump’s base among the fascist Christian nationalists or his encouraging assaults on the media is all one needs to answer […]
The following is an article in Israel’s daily newspaper Haaretz. It contains interviews with soldiers at Israel’s torture facility, Sde Teiman, which is called a “detention center”. There have been many previous […]
The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign has initiated this statement. We urge all readers of Oaklandsocialist to sign the statement and pass it around. What would be especially useful is to find teachers […]
Here is a video of my presentation to the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign on the Republicans’ plans to overturn November’s elections if they don’t win them. All too many people are ignoring […]
The ongoing Democratic Party convention should be seen in two related contexts: One is the threat of a fascist-connected ethno-nationalist returning to power, this time far better prepared than he was in […]
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: Just a week ago, we published a pamphlet on the nature of this period. We somewhat tentatively concluded that, after alternating waves of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary periods, it seems […]
On Monday night the Democratic Party celebrated leaving the 20th century and entering the 21st. Symbolic of that was the “love” expressed for Joe Biden when he spoke. “We love you, Joe,” […]
Upcoming forum by Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign on plans of Christian nationalist Republicans to overturn November elections. Register for forum here: https://bit.ly/4dpgoU5
Introduction from Oaklandsocialist: A debate is under way within the left about whether or not to vote for the Democrats. Some on the left oppose voting for the Democrats’ and use the […]
“We could be living in a year in which authoritarians take or keep power in nations across Europe, Latin America and in the U.S., while Putin continues to make advances in Ukraine […]
Donald Trump is floundering. He’s staying off the campaign trail, with his first appearance in a week scheduled for Montana, a state he is likely to win by double digits in November. […]
Introduction: The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign recently held a debate on whether socialists should support voting for Democrats in 2024, or ever. Lifelong socialist, former president of AFSCME Local 444 and […]
“How often in the world do you wake up knowing that a black woman kicked that bastard’s ass and sent him on the road?” Tim Walz, presumptive Democratic nominee for Vice President. […]
Yesterday I signed up for and attended an online meeting of the Kamala Harris for president campaign. I did so for a couple of interrelated reasons: I think it’s extremely important to […]
Oaklandsocialist notes: The author of this article is a young-ish working class guy who lives in a mainly white working class neighborhood in Philadelphia. I went to a shuffleboard event here in […]
by Yorgos Mitralias A highlight of the Olympic flame’s peregrinations through France was its meeting with a “102-year-old former Resistance fighter”, which was celebrated by the country’s media, who were quick to […]
Introduction from Oaklandsocialist: Here, Clay Claiborn comments on our previous article “Don’t support Jill Stein! A reply to Howie Hawkins”. Readers may also be interested in Clay’s 2020 article “Why Joe Biden […]
While any serious person is horrified at the prospect of a Trump/Vance presidency, some on the left are actually arguing that it won’t make that much of a difference. One would think […]
It’s now official: Joe Biden is bowing out of the presidential race. It’s also all but official: Kamala Harris will be his replacement. This is extremely good news. Now there is a […]
Gregor Strasser returned to life at the Republican Convention yesterday. He returned in the body of Teamsters president and “reform” union leader Sean O’Brien. Strasser, let us remember, was the German Nazi […]
It is amazing how quickly the media focus shifts. Just a few hours ago it was all Trump assassination attempt all the time. Now it’s “all Trump classified documents case thrown out […]
by Richard Finnegan in London A lively debate has begun over the interpretation of the election with the centre right Labour Party claiming a landslide win and a mandate to do whatever […]
Two key political events will happen today. First will be a meeting with Democratic senators and Biden staffers. Second will be Biden’s press conference. Let’s consider where things seem to stand as […]
Who knows? Maybe Team Biden can actually pull it off. After all, Trump is really a very vulnerable candidate. But the developing conflict between the mainstream media and the Democrats is significant. […]
Date: July 7, 2024Author: aplutsoc1 Comment The results of the French legislative elections have considerable significance. This is a defeat for the RN, the 3rd force in the National Assembly when it was expected to […]
Joe Biden established his residence in the 51st state of the country in his ABC interview on Thursday night. That was the State of Denial. He once again had trouble putting sentences […]
Introduction: Oaklandsocialist is on an email list of supposed Marxists. Recently, there was another of the interminable debates about whether or not to vote for a Democrat to keep Trump out. Some […]
Supreme Court Chief (in)Justice John Roberts has dropped the pretense. Until now, he tried to maintain a degree of credibility that the Supreme Court was apolitical and non-partisan, that its decisions were […]
The MAGA US supreme court’s ruling on presidential immunity is simply a political ruling cloaked in legal terms. Why do CNN, the Democratic party and others take it as anything but that? […]
From aplutsoc.org Paris, June 30, 2024 The arrival of the RN [the far right “National Rally”, formerly the National Front] in government in France would be a major asset for Putin, would play into […]
If you eat toast for breakfast, you will now be crazy about Joe Biden because that’s what he appears to be: toast. And stale toast with no butter or jelly at that. […]
Donald Trump has an unrecognized political action committee (PAC). It is the MAGA judges from judge Aileen Cannon in Florida, who is presiding over the stolen classified documents case, to the Supreme […]
By Yorgos Mitralias When, just after the announcement of the results of the European elections, French President Macron surprised everyone by deciding to dissolve the Parliament and to call general elections for June 30, […]
Here is the concluding part of my series on why Marxism opposes individual terrorism. In this part, we talk about the dead end of alternative to individual terrorism. That alternative is international, […]
Third part in a 4 part series on why Marxism opposes individual terrorism. In this part we discuss how and why that strategy came to dominate in Palestine, how the PLO and […]
The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign was the only ones to warn against the tendency of Western governments to be willing to trade Ukrainian land for “peace” with Russia at the recent Swiss […]
Indian ethno-nationalist Narendra Modi received a bit of a setback in the recent election in that country. Here, Oaklandsocialist talked with Indian socialist and campaigner for democratic rights, Kavita Krishnan, about those […]
Here is a short video of my time visiting the Palestine encampment at UC Santa Barbara
Convicted! The United States now has a former president who is a convicted felon. He adds this to the list of his other accomplishments – convicted of rape, successful lawsuits for slander, […]
Introduction: This is a short article about Caitlin Johnstone. For those who have never heard of her, she is a former astrologer who now makes a living writing about politics. She […]
“The truth is that in the area of our homeland… now lives a large population of Palestinians. We do not want to rule over them. We do not want to run their […]
by Yorgos Mitralias In July 2021, commenting on Albert Einstein’s prophetic warnings of Israel’s disastrous future as early as 1948, we concluded our text with the following observation and, at the same […]
I got a message from Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). They are supporting Dennis Kucinich who is running for office as an independent. For those who aren’t familiar with him, Kucinich was […]
When Mr. Mitsotakis criminalizes, threatens and represses students who defend international legality! by Yorgos Mitralias “If some people think they can repeat what they’ve seen in other countries and occupy universities, pitch […]
I got a call from a friend of mine who’s been watching the Trump trial in New York City as well as Trump’s other legal issues. He wanted reassurance that he’s not […]
The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign has taken an important initiative in launching an appeal to unite the various world liberation struggles. Oaklandsocialist has signed on to it and urges others to do […]
The people at the top of the Federal Reserve Bank, the “Fed”, are the direct representatives of finance capital in the United States. Therefore, what they are saying behind the scenes is […]
In part 2 of this slideshow series on the strategy of individual terrorism, we look at the results of that strategy in Chile (1973), Iran (1979) and South Africa (1980s). Learn from […]
I’ve had some extended discussions with people who no matter what aren’t going to vote to keep Trump out, by voting for Biden. These are people I basically agree with on most […]
I was at the occupation at the UC Berkeley campus today. Overall, this is opening the space for serious, in depth discussions. Here is a leaflet I handed out. Below that are […]
Here is part one of my video/slideshow on why Marxism opposes individual terrorism. In this part we discuss the widespread confusion (at best) among many socialists on the issue, discuss the difference […]
Here is a short video I made of the student occupation at UC Berkeley in protest against Israeli genocide and US complicity. As you will see from my comments, it is clear […]
Pennsylvania held its primary elections on April 23. Here is a report of what one voter in Philadelphia observed: Out of curiosity, I decided to observe a polling station in Philadelphia during […]
This article discusses: Why the confusion on the issue of individual terrorism is disastrous for socialism. The fundamental difference between individual terrorism and a genuine armed struggle. The classic Marxist position on […]
Here is a video/slideshow presentation I made on how large layers of the left have allowed themselves to be drawn into Putin’s far right web. Some have allowed themselves to enter this […]
Tehran has retaliated with a barrage of rockets and drones for Israel’s terrorist bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria. This barrage is still going on while I am writing. However, some […]
Gaza and Ukraine exacerbate the ethical problem of an already shaky international left! By Yorgos Mitralias The revelation of the enormous ethical problem caused to the international left by the Russian war in Ukraine and the Israeli […]
Online forum: Putin draws the left into the far right Presented by the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign International working class solidarity is the heart and soul of socialism, yet major sectors of […]
“From the river to the sea, Israel will be free…” to do anything it likes towards its goal of ethnically cleansing all Palestinians. That is the message it sent with the rockets […]
On March 26, RFK Jr. brought his presidential campaign to Oakland… kind of. I was there, but RFK onluy showed up via teleconference. The fact that he wouldn’t set foot in Oakland […]
Latest in my slideshow series on the “left” being drawn into Putin’s far right web, in this case regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
NBC’s hiring of recently fired chair of the Republican Party, Ronna McDaniel, is causing a bit of a kerfluffle. But the scandal is that McDaniel loyally served Trump after he attempted to […]
Al Jazeera is giving credibility to ISIS (ISIL) K’s taking responsibility for this terrorist attack. This group has a long history of attacking Russian targets due, first and foremost, to Russia’s role […]
“I’m really rich. I have total net worth of $8.73bn. I’m not doing that to brag. I’m doing that to show that’s the kind of thinking our country needs.” So said Donald […]
Russia’s fascist connected Putin is creating great confusion within the left, including the socialist left. He and his agents and assets (both conscious and otherwise) are drawing significant numbers of lefts, including […]
Here is the second part in my slideshow series on the Putinized left. This short slideshow is on how this “left” came to support a counter revolution in Syria. This same Putinized […]
Here is an analysis of the UN report on allegations of rape allegations and how some on the left have responded to that report: We all know that the Israeli regime ranks […]
Fascist connected Putin has gathered into his orbit a layer of “lefts”. In order to understand what is happening, we have to go back 100 years and look at the “left” wing […]
The Supreme Court majority has placed the court onto the Committee to Elect Donald Trump. There’s no other way of seeing it. Not only that, but they’ve done it with the complicity […]
Even before the QAnon Republicans’ holdup, in my opinion, there is a lot of misunderstanding of why Biden has been so slow in providing all the arms to Ukraine that it needs […]
The European Network in Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) has published the following statement on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Oaklandsocialist supports this statement and urges groups and individual to […]
By Yorgos Mitralias The methodical extermination of the Palestinian people, which the Israeli army has been successfully carrying out for the past four months, does not fall from the sky, and would not […]
CNN interviewed some nice, middle class, white Republican ladies in S. Carolina. But what do they really represent?
As the QAnon Republicans refuse to allow aid to Ukraine, billions of dollars of assets of Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs can and should be seized for that aid.
I had a text message exchange with a member of East Bay DSA who had contacted me to try to get me to campaign for Jovanka Beckles, yet another liberal Democrat they […]
On Saturday, Feb. 3, the administrators of a Marxist email list called “Marxmail” put on a forum called “the new US labor movement”. Speakers were Bill Fletcher jr., former official of […]
It is increasingly looking like the next presidential election will be a repeat of the 2020 matchup of Biden vs. Trump. A serious argument can be made that Biden’s support for Israel’s […]
The instructive cases of Germany and Switzerland When the West nails the Israeli coffin of the Palestinian people! by Yorgos Mitralias First the facts: UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the […]
Growing opposition within Democratic Party & in State Department to Biden’s support for Israel. Changes in Israel since Biden met Golda Meir in 1973. Biden living in the past regarding both Israel […]
By Yorgos Mitralias Those who still have doubts about the existence of “similarities” between the wars waged by Mr Putin and Mr Netanyahu against Ukraine and the Palestinians, respectively, can now be […]
Where will they wander? by Anonymous Where will these Zionists wander next, with their bombast of Biblical entitlements, their A-bombs and Uzis in hand, to conquer homelands where others reside? Whose ancient […]
Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucus was a lot stronger than many people realize. To his 51% must be added the 7.7% of Ramaswamy votes. In fact, once DeSantis falls by […]
The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign is holding a three part series on the history of Zionism and the struggle against it. Here is the recording of part one of this series. This […]
Oaklandsocialist presentation to forum of Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign: Text Comrades, a few weeks ago, Israeli columnist Amira Hass wrote a column in the Israeli daily paper “Haaretz” in which she asked […]
by Yorgos Mitrialis No criminal wants witnesses to his crimes. And neither does Israel, of course. That’s why it does everything it can to be able to commit its crimes in Gaza […]
Reminder: Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign forum on history of Zionism The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign presents a zoom presentation & discussion: The history of Zionism & the struggle against it, 1916-1967 Sunday, […]
By Yorgos Mitrialis And yet, despite the gloomy news, despite the rampant barbarism, despite the depression that pervades everything, there is still light and hope! And this light and this hope are […]
Former AFL-CIO official and now leftist Bill Fletcher was interviewed on Democracy Now recently. Part one of that interview is here. Part two is here. Both include transcripts. It’s hard to know […]
Recently the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz revealed that the Israeli military is the sponsor of a Telegram channel called 72 Virgins. That channel is composed of videos made by Israeli soldiers in […]
Putin and Russian Traditionalism Traditionalism: a global phenomenon Christian fundamentalist Traditionalism in the United States A summary of what Traditionalism is and the reasons for its global rise Traditionalism, the patriarchal nuclear […]
With a reported 15,500 people in Gaza killed by Israel and the number rising every day, millions of people will tend to sympathize with anybody who stands up to Israel’s genocidal death […]
Here is a video of yesterday’s protest in San Francisco against Israel’s resumption of bombing Gaza. Below it are some photos plus my written comments on the protest. Within 24 hours of […]
Israeli anti-apartheid and BDS activist Ofer Neiman discusses: Is Israel boxed into a corner militarily in Gaza? The special role that Gaza City plays in Gaza itself and how that relates to […]
Oaklandsocialist interviewed Zachary Lockman, author of the book “Comrades and Enemies”. This important book reviews relations between Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, starting in the 1920’s. Video of interview is below, […]
Last night (Nov. 27) Oakland City Council had an “emergency” meeting to consider a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. About 3-400 people turned out, and many of them spoke. The […]
Yes, nowadays enjoying nature is totally political. Plus, we all need a little beauty and pleasure in our lives. Here’s an important part of how we get ours.
I was one of the founding members of the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign. Here is a presentation I made about our group’s past, present and future. It includes the method I believe […]
Short video/slideshow: We need to think through what is the long term resolution to ending Zionist oppression. It seems to me that it must be on a regional basis and that the […]
by Yorgos Mitralias While the operation to exterminate and ethnically cleanse the Palestinians in Gaza has – quite rightly – monopolized the world’s attention for weeks, little or no attention is being […]
This is part 2 of Oaklandsocialist’s slideshow presentation of our pamphlet on the rise of Zionism and the founding of the State of Israel. This part will examine the role of “labor […]
Sometimes I write articles that are fantasies. This is not one of them. This is a report of what somebody actually told me about a conversation she had with a couple of […]
I had a conversation with a young friend yesterday. He had been active in Occupy Oakland and was agreeing with me that things today were totally unpredictable back then. “If somebody in […]
Oaklandsocialist John Reimann was interviewed by well known DJ Davey D on KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio. Listen to it here.
Biden & Democrats Trump and Republicans Alternative to both & learning from Vietnam War protests Building a working class alternative to both capitalist parties It is not enough for this new movement […]
It’s difficult to know where to even start. There is so much to say about yesterday’s San Francisco protest against Israel and Biden’s support for their war crimes. The photos below hopefully […]
I’m making my pamphlet, The New Apartheid: The rise of Zionism and the founding of the state of Israel, into a slideshow. Here’s part one:
Introduction: A new movement is developing. This movement is different from previous ones like the protests against the US invasion of Iraq in that it takes place as youth are facing a […]
“The Democratic Party’s yearslong unity behind President Biden is beginning to erode over his steadfast support of Israel in its escalating war with the Palestinians, with a left-leaning coalition of young voters […]
QAnon Republicans take over the House of Representatives. US capitalist class losing control. Democratic Party, including its “progressive” wing, trying to board a train that’s long left the station, both regarding Republicans […]
Palestine & Ukraine: Unite the Struggles A Zoom forum presented by Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign Sunday, October 29, 2023 9AM PST / 12PM EST To register for this forum, […]
By Yorgos Mitralias Of course, at the root of the creation and perpetuation of the Middle East tragedy lies the founding of the State of Israel as an exclusively Jewish state, and […]
Question: Does it matter who actually fired the rocket that killed hundreds at the al Ahli Hospital in Gaza? Answer: Yes it matters because if it can be established that it was […]
Statement of the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign We stand with the Palestinian people The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign was formed to build support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s imperialist invasion. However, we […]
Joe Biden came into office based on appeals to return to a day gone by. He pledged to restore the “soul of America”. He pledged a return to “bipartisanship”, meaning collaborating with […]
While we were visiting Flensburg in northern Germany, we joined a protest about Gaza. Below are a couple of photos plus a video.
Interview with Cheryl Zuur, co-chair of the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign, about a “peace” award being given to neoliberal, privatizing and Putin apologizing economist Jeffrey Sachs.
by Yorgos Mitralias More than at any time in the 75 years of the State of Israel’s existence, these days we have witnessed the spectacular yet tragic collapse of the Zionist movement’s great […]
Below is a collection of comments of mine on Facebook (and one email) on the unfolding disaster/Israeli war crimes in Israel/Palestine. Oct. 13 I just watched a news clip from BBC showing […]
Ofer Neiman is an Israeli socialist and Palestinian rights, anti apartheid activist. In this interview he discusses the present crisis and some of its background What were the conditions, what was the situation, […]
Just when Biden (and Trump before him), Netanyahu and bin Salman thought they had the entire Palestinian population well under control, Israel and the world received a shock of as great magnitude […]
It took nearly a week and a mere 15 tries for Kevin McCarthy to secure his lifelong dream of becoming House Speaker. But this didn’t come close to the record, which […]
The chaos in the US House of Representatives will have immediate effects at home and longer term domestic and global effects. This crisis is an example of the crisis of U.S. politics […]
Last week was one helluva week, a week in which: The federal government came within hours of shutting down entirely, due to the machinations of the QAnon Republicans whose goal, as the […]
By Bill Weinberg Transcript from CounterVortex podcast of Sept. 23 Oaklandsocialist publishes another transcript of a podcast of Bill Weinberg. If you find value in these articles, we urge readers to subscribe to Bill’s […]
Little did anybody expect that one more teensy tiny government shutdown would have the effect that it did, but when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy… Well, let’s back up a bit: Back last […]
Last Sunday (Sept. 17) a forum was held on how socialists should orient towards the 2024 elections. I was one of the panelists. The following is what I presented, followed by some […]
Save the Date! September 24th 11:00 AM PDT/2:00 PM EDT Socialists and the 2024 Elections in the USA An online forum brought to you by the Marxmail.world List Register Here The Marxism […]
Last Wednesday, the QAnon controlled House Judiciary Committee quizzed Attorney General Merrick Garland. That hearing was important if for no other reason than that it gives us a taste of what the […]
by Yorgos Mitralias As Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis invokes – for the umpteenth time – the climate crisis as an alibi to mask his responsibility for the successive natural disasters that have […]
“I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, […]
by Ilya Matveev Sections of the Western left have developed a narrative according to which Russia has been gradually surrounded by NATO and that supposedly “provoked” Putin. It’s increasingly difficult to sustain […]
Here is an interview with South African socialist, scholar and working class fighter Trevor Ngwane. Among other things, Trevor discusses: his own history of struggle, the role of the ANC and […]
Today marks the 50th anniversary of “another” 9-11. That is, the anniversary of the coup in Chile that overthrew the socialist president Salvador Allende. That coup was led by General Augusto Pinochet, […]
Like a “weather disturbance” gathering strength as it moves across the Atlantic, the criminal charges surrounding Trump are gathering force and seem likely to end up in a full scale crisis. If […]
By John Reimann, administrator of Oaklandsocialist. This article originally appeared on the web site of the British group Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. Oaklandsocialist thanks them for publishing it. Ukraine may be on the […]
by Bill Weinberg Update: This article is a transcript from Bill Weinberg’s “Countervortex“, which can be found on the internet. It was published some time ago,well before the 2024 election. After that […]
Oaklandsocialist interviewed Ofer Neiman again. (See first interview here.) Ofer is an Israeli socialist and Palestinian rights, anti apartheid activist. In this interview we discuss: The present situation in Israel The […]
Today, for your viewing pleasure, oaklandsocialist brings you the latest developments in the case of the Trump indictments;
I watched a little more than half the Republican monster parade, I mean debate, last night. (I couldn’t take much more than that.) Here are a couple of impressions: First was the […]
Introduction The method of capitalist rule in the United States is shaking. It is not shaking because of a clash between the classes. It is shaking because of a crisis at the […]
By Charles Pierson World food prices soared after Russia imposed a naval blockade on Ukraine following its February 24, 2022 invasion. The blockade has prevented grain and other foodstuffs from leaving Ukrainian […]
Introduction The role of multi-millionaire capitalist Neville “Roy” Singham in financing much of the “left” has been publicized by the recent article on him in the NY Times. However, that article is […]
By Bill Weinberg Transcript from CounterVortex podcast of Aug. 12. In this episode, we’re going to take a look at the situation in the West African nation of Niger, where a coup […]
Introduction Donald Trump represents something entirely new in US politics. Because what he represents is so different from what we had over the past 150 years, many people, ironically including most socialists, […]
By Pete Glosser Justifiable fear about the next election cycle has begun circling like the medieval Beasts of Battle as we confront the very real probability that 1) the republican party will […]
Had anybody predicted just ten years ago (2013) that: Donald Trump would be elected president and then would remain largely out of the control of any sector of the US capitalist class; […]
Israel’s political crisis has many aspects, some of which are unique to Israel and some of which the world has in comon. Here, Oaklandsocialist interviews Ofer Neiman, long time Palestinian rights activist […]
According to Casey Michel (American Kleptocracy) the US is “the largest provider of money laundering and financial secrecy services in the world…. The world of the ‘offshore [money laundering haven] has been […]
by Anthony Boynton Why are cluster munitions immoral? Because a bunch of governments have signed a treaty banning their use? Because civilians, especially children have been killed and wounded by cluster munitions? […]
What are the facts regarding Biden’s decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine and what is the reason for many countries having signed a treaty saying they won’t use cluster bombs? A […]
Today’s Wall St. Journal carries an article that once more raises the issue of money laundering, but unintentionally. An LLC called Flannery Associates has purchased $1 billion worth of land around a […]
The Putin regime is preparing to engage in nuclear terrorism. In my view, here is the military background: Over the winter and early spring, the Putin regime put its seizure of Bakhmut […]
I came of age during the US war against Vietnam. I marched in protests against that war and helped organize some anti-war events. At the same time, I was highly influenced by […]
On June 21, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, warned that Russia had mined the cooling pools of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Equally ominously, on June 30 the Guardian […]
By Yorgos Mitralias The coincidence is terribly eloquent: On the same day, Wednesday June 21, 2023, almost at the same time, Macron and Putin declared war on all those who take the […]
Contrary to what is being reported, the Republican controlled US Supreme Court has not prohibited affirmative action. It has only prohibited affirmative action that does not benefit white people. For example, the […]
WSWS (and probably others on the Putinized “left”) argues that Prigozhin’s revolt was part of a US plot to break up Russia. Completely aside from the fact that there is not a […]
Even more than thoughts, there are questions and suspicions about Prigozhin’s rebellion. Putin has maintained his stranglehold on power in Russia through keeping potential rivals off balance and fighting each other. At […]
Workers in the U.S, Ukraine and around the world should consider the significance of Biden’s latest diplomatic maneuvers. This week, he welcomed Indian president Narendra Modi to the White House with this […]
After days of breathless and nonstop reporting, the news is that Oceangate’s “Titan” apparently imploded as it descended. There is a political significance to this beyond the fact that millions have been […]
The vacuum in US politics is reflected inside both of the two main parties. In the Democrats it is reflected in the extreme weakness of Biden. A February poll showed that only […]
With the Ukrainian counteroffensive now starting, we should get a human face behind who the Ukrainian soldiers are. Oleg is one of those faces. He was interviewed by a Ukrainian-speaking American friend […]
by Yorgos Mitralias (Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: Readers of this article will note Berlusconi’s similarities with Donald Trump. In fact, just one day after his death, the NY Times published an obituary for Berlusconi […]
Why is the Wall St. Journal editorial board defendingTrump? After all, the indictment makes clear that Trump is a “clear and present danger” to the security of U.S. capital, to which the […]
This is the third and last segment of our interview with Denys Pilash. In a way, it’s the most important, because we get to an idea for a joint campaign. That is […]
Video of second part of three part interview with Denys Pilash. Transcript is below video. Part One of the interview is here. Part three will follow. John Reimann Here’s the second […]
If it wasn’t enough that a crooked, reality TV star could emerge from the pack and take down the anointed Republican presidential nominee (Jeb Bush) in 2016… If it wasn’t enough that […]
Video of interview with Denys Pilash of Ukraine’s Social Movement. Transcript of interview is below. John Reimann Oakland socialists had the opportunity to talk with Denys Pilash of Ukraine’s Sotsialny Rukh or […]
Ukrainian trade unions statement on Kakhovka HPP explosion and an environmental disaster in Ukraine (See original link here) The Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine with other the Ukrainian affiliates of […]
Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies are at it again. They have jointly published an article in Commondreams calling for “negotiations” over Ukraine, by which they mean over the heads of the […]
I recently was sent a copy of an email about the war in Ukraine. It was from some South African trade unionists. In it they repeat all the same old falsehoods […]
The California Faculty Association at Sonoma State university has passed this resolution in support of Ukraine’s right to arm and defend itself. The resolution was developed by the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign. […]
There is a lesson we can learn from CNN’s “town hall” meeting with Trump On May 10th. The lesson involves how we deal with proven serial liars, of which Trump and the […]
The most recent polls must be very worrying to the Democrats. They show that 58% of “Democratic leaning” voters (an absolutely key demographic) want somebody other than Biden as the Democratic […]
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: I recently talked with a worker in Arkansas. We were talking about all sorts of things – retirement, pension plans, unions… He had heard nothing about these enormous […]
Ilya Budraitskis is a Russian socialist and a refugee from that country. He talked with the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign recently on the issue of whether Russia is fascist. He raised many […]
The Oakland A’s have officially given up on getting ahold of acres of public land of the Port of Oakland and are moving to Las Vegas. I am proud that I was […]
Today, on International Workers Day, and in the days that follow, we should assess the state of affairs within our class. We do ourselves and our class no favors by dressing this […]
Biden may be on his way towards winning a clear majority in 2024, but the fascist-connected Republicans are not resigned to their “fate”. What legal covers could they use to overturn an […]
I attended this interesting meeting/presentation by Russian refugees Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev. Important issues were raised, but on one issue there is a serious question. But first a summary: The […]
Introduction Throughout the world, from Russia, to India, to Brazil to the United States, the idea of returning to ancient traditions forms a basic part of the global extreme right and fascist […]
Socialists and other leftists in the US have always played an important role in helping build the unions and build other working class organizations. Today, socialists are more or less […]
On the same day that Trump was formally arrested in New York City, a liberal Democrat won the election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and another beat his conservative, croporate oriented rival […]
By Michael Pröbsting Originally published on Links.org Politicians of Western governments never tire of asserting that aid from the US and EU for Ukraine is “unprecedented”. Supporters of Russian president Vladimir […]
On April 2, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign had a zoom discussion with Olexandr Skyba, a leading member of the railroad workers union in Ukraine, and a fellow railroad worker of his. […]
Trump seemed positively enthusiastic about his being indicted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. At home and alone with Melania (who in general avoided like the plague having to spend alone time with […]
France: May 1968 – March 2023! by Yorgos Mitralias At a time when those who declare, even among the French elites (!), that we are witnessing the emergence of a “new May 68” […]
The walls are closing in on the former president of the United States and millions of Americans are up in arms about it. For many of them, “up in arms” is […]
Against ‘progressive’ betrayal of Ukraine by Bill Weinberg. Transcript from CounterVortex podcast of March 13. We just passed the one-year anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war, Putin’s massive invasion of Ukraine. Which was […]
By Yorgos Mitralias What is happening in France this March 2023? What is happening is that France is now well into a – very promising – social and political crisis that is […]
Dugin’s philosophic roots: mysticism, “Traditionalism” and fascism vs. reality of social class. Dugin’s international fascist links. Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics – towards Eurasianism and Russian imperialism. Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory – No […]
On March 12, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign had a presentation from Kavita Krishnanon “Why the world should pay attention to Narendra Modi”. This was followed by a full discussion. Below […]
From East Palestine to east Ukraine, Biden’s half steps are killing people while they boost the chances of the fascist connected Republicans in 2024 and help the fascist connected Putin’s invasion of […]
by Yorgos Mitralias In France, the popular mobilisation of 7 March did not disappoint expectations and was indeed of historic proportions. That is why, moreover, it immediately provoked a new and even greater […]
Workers and political activists beware: What is happening in Florida threatens all political campaigns we are involved in. Florida governor Ron DeSantis is moving to be the US’s Viktor Orbán. Orbán, […]
Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign presents: Kavita Krishnan on “Why the world should pay attention to Narendra Modi” In May of 2019, after India’s Narendra Modi was overwhelmingly reelected, the Financial times commented: […]
East Palestine, Ohio, and Kyiv, Ukraine, may be nearly 5,000 miles apart, but they are closer than you think. And in both cases, the U.S. union leadership is missing in action. […]
The real life soap opera murder trial of Alex Murdaugh has been dominating the news over the last week or so. Largely because the trial has been televised, it’s been great drama. […]
A local resident and American Indian talks about the politics in the area of East Palestine John Reimann So we’re talking with somebody that lives in the next county over from, from […]
The author of this blog, John Reimann, was recently interviewed by Luke Pickrell. Here is that interview as he published it. Interview with socialist activist and writer John Reimann By Luke Pickrell 2/11/2023 The […]
United rally marking the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A real step forward towards Freedom Fighters of the World United.
On February 3, a 1.8 mile long train run by Norfolk Southern derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. It was known at the time that the train was carrying the highly toxic vinyl […]
Given the numbers involved, it might seem that all the brouhaha over the “Rage Against the War Machine” protests is just a tempest in a teapot. After all, their signal event […]
by Giorgios Mitralias In France, what happened in the previous three days of popular mobilisation against the government’s pension (anti-)reform, happened again in the fourth, on Saturday 11 February: many hundreds of […]
Any thinking worker – no less any real socialist – will say, “of course the people of Ukraine have the right to defend themselves, arms in hand, against the Russian invaders.” That is […]
From the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign Boycott “Rage Against the War Machine” UKRAINE SOCIALIST SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN, CISPOS, AND SYRIA SOLIDARITY NYC CALL FOR BOYCOTTING “RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE” RALLY ON FEBRUARY […]
With their permission, we republish here an interview with Taras Bilous originally published in New Politics. This is invaluable information, first and foremost to keep us informed of the actual situation in […]
I was talking with a friend of mine who is from Turkey today. I commented on the fact that I was seeing a building that had collapsed into a pile of rubble […]
Oaklandsocialist interviews Green Party candidate of president in 2020 and long time activist, Howie Hawkins. Full transcript below video. John Reiman So we’re talking here with Howie Hawkins, who’s a prominent member […]
From the French group Aplutsoc: The United States, which had gambled on Ukraine being crushed last February and the subsequent organization of Russia’s financial and commercial isolation, must provide arms to Ukraine, […]
By Yorgos Mitralias The international media may say hardly a word, but that does not mean that these days France is not being shaken by the biggest social eruption of the last several decades! […]
I went to the Oakland protest about the murder of Tyre Nichols last night. It was a fairly good turnout and the speeches reflected that anger, and determination to put an end […]
Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Ukraine Solidarity Network) debated Medea Benjamin (Code Pink) last Sunday (Jan. 29) on the issue of Ukraine. The debate helped clarify some points, and raised some previously less […]
Khin Thiri Nandar Soe, a Burmese woman living in the San Francisco Bay Area explains that the Burmese junta is waging a war against the population of that country and that it learned […]
Brilliant comic book style history of the invasion of Ukraine. Words by Bill Weinberg, artwork by Seth Tobocman and Tamara Tornado. Originally published here. Also see Bill Weinberg’s web site Countervortex. See […]
There are important similarities – and also differences – between January 6 2021 in the US and the recent coup attempt. Workers here in the US should draw the lessons. Here, we […]
Reprinted from Michael Karadjis’s blog site. He makes one point that should be obvious, that many on the “left” ignore: That a government’s support for (or opposition to) any particular issue – […]
On January 8, Svitlana Romanko talked with the Ukrainian Socialist Solidarity Campaign. Svitlana is an environmentalist lawyer in Ukraine. Just a short while ago, she was kicked out of the Cop 27 […]
NO PASARAN! The frightening civilisational counter-revolution of the Brown International in the making by Yorgos Mitralias With interest focused – rightly so – on the war Putin is waging against Ukraine and its people, […]
The Republicans stared into the abyss and stepped back…. for now. They watched Matt Gaetz apparently renege on a deal. They watched fellow Representative Mike Rogers (R, Alabama) have to be restrained […]
I wrote a new version of the old song “Which side are you on?”, as it applies to the struggles in Iran, Ukraine, Myanmar and the world socialist movement (“Oh, workers of […]
The last two times members of the House of Representatives had to resort to multiple ballots to elect a House Speaker tell us a lot about the present crisis. Both times the […]
The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign recently held a zoom discussion with Eugene, who lives in Kiev. Below is the recording plus a transcript. Eugene Bronstein So I hope that I will […]
Fossil Fuel Dependency and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Forum/Discussion “Ending our dependence on oil and gas is the best way to stop fueling thugs like Putin and the growing climate crisis,” […]
Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, is probably the most serious journal of the US capitalist class. It recently published an article entitled Putin’s Last Stand. This article […]
The House Special Committee to investigate January 6 has issued its final report, issued in time before it disappears like a building swallowed up in a sink hole, when the Republicans take […]
The world crisis revolving around the war in Ukraine has a deep influence in US politics. This makes understanding that war all the more important. In January, the fascist-linked Republican Party will […]
by Bill Weinberg. Note, this is the transcript of an audio of Bill Weinberg’s “Countervortex”. That audio can be heard on his blog here. Against pseudo-left disinformation on Ukraine From the CounterVortex […]
Reposted from Claysbeach.blogspot.com Friday, December 9, 2022 Jeffrey Sachs on @DemocracyNow vs. Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin On Tuesday, Jeffrey Sachs was on Democracy Now to talk about the war in Ukraine. On Wednesday, […]
About a thousand Iranians, Iranian-Americans and a few supporters rallied in San Francisco on Dec. 11 to show support for the Iran revolution. Here’s a short video of that event:
If there is to be a coup – meaning the overthrow of the norms of capitalist democracy – in the US, it will most likely be a “constitutional coup”. This means that […]
On Dec. 4, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign held a forum on the revolution in Iran, with socialist feminist Frieda Afary presenting. Here is a video of the entire forum plus, below […]
John Reimann On the afternoon after the US Senate, under the leadership of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer passed the bill to force the railroad workers to keep on working, prohibiting […]
Biden is pushing for the government to prohibit a railroad strike. The excuse is that such a strike would hurt the economy. This whole situation brings to mind the great SF Bay […]
by Charles Pierson On November 19, the People’s Forum in New York City hosted a panel discussion: “The Real Path to Peace in Ukraine.” The speakers were a rogues’ gallery of tankie […]
The uprising in Iran is inspiring millions around the world. On Sunday, Dec. 4, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign will host Iranian American socialist feminist, writer and translator, Frieda Afary to […]
I was (unofficially) expelled from a small socialist group I helped found over 15 years ago and was very active in for many years. How that happened is a cautionary tale. The […]
by Yorgos Mitralias Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: On November 19, a variety of US “peace groups”, plus speakers like former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and former Green Party candidate for president […]
by Kavita Krishnan You may have come across mention of a “Peoples Forum” in New York, calling for “No to War-Yes to Negotiations” in Ukraine. I’ve signed a petition drafted by the […]
Something I learned from my years of activity inside the union: Pay close attention to exactly what the union leadership is saying… and also what they’re not saying. That’s because they are […]
The partial setback for the MAGA Republicans follows a similar event in Brazil, where the Brazil style Donald Trump – Jair Bolsonaro – was narrowly defeated. But just as in Brazil, this […]
Here’s what I posted on my Facebook page for my mayorial campaign: Election results and the potential: Friends, as of now I got 521 votes in the first round, meaning that so […]
I ran for mayor of Oakland as the “working class socialist candidate” in this election cycle. Along the way, I learned a lot and, I believe, set some examples for future similar […]
Peter Liu is a candidate for Oakland mayor. He sends around emails about “crooked Jews” and “dirty Jews” and says an admirer of Hitler (rapper “Ye”) is a role model for him. […]
The assault on Paul Pelosi, husband of Congressional House leader Nancy Pelosi, says a lot about the direction of US politics. The alleged attacker is a man named David DePape. (From all […]
As of this writing, Trump surrogate in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has not accepted his election defeat by Lula da Silva. Immediately following his loss, he was reported as meeting for hours with […]
By Charles Pierson Note: The following article was submitted to Counterpunch as a reply to the article mentioned in the paragraph below. Counterpunch has refused to publish it. “Victory against Russia,” is […]
By Michael Karadjis reposted from his blog. (Michael Karadjis makes a vital point: That not all capitalist rivalries can be boiled down to simple economic rivalries. That is because every capitalist regime […]
By Socialist Workers’ Movement of the Dominican Republic In a press release dated July 19, 2022, the head of the Ways and Means Committee of the US Congress, Earl Blumenauer, and Dan […]
At last I was able to break through the nice, friendly, collegial atmosphere that the liberals try to impose on these events. It was a combination of several factors, first and foremost […]
A reporter from the S.F. Chronicle interviewed me this morning. It was part of their decision-making process to decide whom they will endorse. (Newsflash: Don’t be shocked if they don’t endorse this, […]
On Oct. 23, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign met with Indian Marxist, Kavita Krishnan. (See the announcement of this meeting for a short biography of Kavita.) This was a small but hugely important […]
Today’s Washington Post reports that Trump had stolen classified documents containing state secrets about Iran and China. This is a major reason why I’m running for Mayor. Every other candidate wants you […]
Oaklandsocialist had an online conversation with Aditya Sarkar about the situation in Britain. Aditya is a labor historian from India, working in Britain. We met through the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign, but […]
This will be a very important meeting. I urge all workers to attend and to publicize widely: The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign is extremely proud to announce that well known Indian socialist […]
NOTE: If you like this letter and want to add your name as a current or former union member, contact this blog site at: oaklandsocialist@gmail.com and or send a note to: StandFirmForUkraine@gmail.com […]
Ukraine’s bombing of the Kerch Bridge and Putin’s reaction should be seen in light of a recent articlein the Washington Post. That article cites growing divisions within the Putin government, including from […]
I was interviewed the other day on why I am running for Oakland mayor. Unlike the candidate forums – which are largely like beauty pageants – in this one I was given […]
Yesterday the “nonpartisan” League of Women Voters held a “forum” for candidates for Oakland mayor. This whole campaign has been a tremendous learning experience for me and I’m starting to get a […]
by Michael Karadjis republished from his blog MKaradjis.com. Interesting that in a 37-minute speech to justify Russia’s brazen annexation of four regions of Ukraine, Putin didn’t mention “Nazis” or “de-Nazification” once, these silly tropes […]
On Oct. 2, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign held a Zoom meeting with exiled Russian dissident Ilya Budraitskis. What follows is a video of the full meeting plus a transcript of Ilya’s […]
With the crisis of the Putin regime, a new and even more unstable period in world history may be opening up. The “Cold War” was marked by tensions and constant struggles. Then […]
Here is a video plus the text of an interview I did with the SF Chronicle yesterday: SF Chronicle Well, John, can you tell me a little bit about yourself? John Reimann […]
The old demons of the interwar period are back in Europe! By Yorgos Mitralias “Days of 1922? Not yet, but Italy is on track to “celebrate” in four years the centenary of […]
It is important to learn how to answer capitalist politicians, and running for office is one way of doing so. I’m learning a lot by running for mayor of Oakland, mainly through […]
“And RL cracked a smile that woulda made a sweet girl’s photograph cry.” There are such beautifully descriptive sentences scattered throughout Walter Mosley’s 1995 novel “RL’s Dream”. The novel is formally about […]
When viewed more closely, the crises in which Trump and Putin find themselves go a long way towards defining what they have in common and where they differ. The fact that Putin […]
Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign will be holding two meetings/discussions on events inside Ukraine and inside Russia. We urge people to attend and participate. Sunday, September 25: What is happening inside Ukraine? The […]
We must start to draw a link between the confusions – in fact the abandonment of principle – of many socialists regarding Ukraine and their equally great confusions about the crisis swirling […]
The latest in the Mar-a-Lago search drama is the ruling by the MAGAist federal judge Aileen Cannon that the Department of Justice (DOJ) must stop its investigation until a “special master” can […]
Oaklandsocialist interviewed Micah Reddy of South Africa. Much of our discussion focused on the role of a murky figure named Roy Singham. Singham is a multi-millionaire who financed a left journal in […]
By Yorgos Mitralias Not since the end of the last world war has the threat of a reinvigorated, aggressive and almost universally rising far right been felt as much as today. Why is […]
On August 28, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign held a very informative discussion on Latin America’s Sao Paolo Forum. The speaker was Simón Rodríguez from Venezuela. Here is a video of that meeting […]
The usually staid editorial board of the NY Times calls this newest Donald Trump scandal “the greatest crisis in American Democracy since the Civil War…. Mr. Trump’s actions as a public official, like […]
The fact that tens of millions of US workers still support Trump shows the massive confusion that exists. Part of the reason for that confusion is the absence of any significant working […]
No tears for Dugina Republished from AWL on 23 August, 2022 – 2:50 Author: Dale Street Darya Dugina on a day-trip to the Azovstal plant in “liberated” Mariupol Darya Dugina was killed in […]
Darya Dugina, fascist daughter of fascist father Aleksandr Dugin, was killed by a car bomb the other day. The probable target was Dugin himself but his fascist daughter will not be missed […]
Here is an excellent documentary in which Ukrainian lefts of all sorts speak. They explain how they see the Russian invasion, the issue of corruption, the issue of the far right, and […]
Mental Health workers are on strike at Kaiser Permanente. On Aug. 19 they held a strike rally in Oakland. I was there as the working class socialist candidate for Oakland Mayor and […]
by Anthony Boynton in Bogotá, Colombia Imagine that you wake up tomorrow and Bernie Sanders has been elected President of the United States, AND his supporters have won a majority in the […]
“The Justice Department is unleashing political furies it can’t control.” So wrote the editors of the Wall St. Journal on the day after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. They are wrong. Those […]
Those militant uncompromising fighters for their class – the capitalist class – are not happy. Yes, I’m talking about the editorial board of the Wall St. Journal. They have several complaints, criticisms […]
The supposedly left journal Counterpunch has published an article called Diplomacy not Weapons Will End the War”by L. Michael Hager. Hager, starts off by in effect appealing to the concerns of Western […]
Millions are celebrating that Alex Jones will have to pay millions of dollars to those he caused mental anguish and slandered. The question is: How is Jones any different from those on […]
Introduction from Oaklandsocialist: For the next three days, there will be celebrations in Italy for the centenary of the “Barricades of Parma”. These were barricades erected by the workers movement against attacks […]
On July 31, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign held an important meeting on the issue of “Fascist Ideas on the Left: Past, Present and What to do About It”. This was the […]
Donald Trump is preparing to clean house if he gets a second term in office. A major obstacle standing in the way of Trump establishing a Victor Orban-like dictatorship in his first […]
“Something old and something new” could be the summary of the eighth day of public hearings from the January 6 committee. The committee seems to be doing a couple of things: First […]
The media is playing off the complete failure of the police in Uvalde as being due to the failure of whoever was in charge. Yes, whoever was in charge failed and […]
Day 7 of the hearings of the House January 6 committee helped clarify what role Trump and his “team crazy” played in the build up to that day. The question is what […]
Introduction: On July 10, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign hosted a meeting at which Simon Pirani spoke on the issue of the situation in Donbass and Crimea and Russia’s intervention there in […]
Note: This interview will also be able to be heard on Oaklandsocialist’s podcast. John Reimann So we’re talking with Meghan Keane, who is an artist and a political activist, including […]
by Yorgos Mitralias A first conclusion of the reading of Trotsky’s texts “Learn to think” and “On the Sino-Japanese war” is that they explain in a very convincing and detailed way, the […]
Introduction: Oaklandsocialist received the following letter, which is being circulated by concerned members, shop stewards and staff of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). At the time of the […]
A coalition of different liberal groups held a press conference to demand a ballot referendum on the real estate development/A’s stadium project. Here is my speech on the project:
Trump’s loyalists may be flipping. On the sixth, and previously unscheduled day of the January 6 hearings, Cassidy Hutchinson, former top aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified. Apparently she […]
By Art Francisco, co-Chair P.J. McGuire Caucus (Carpenters Union) Last weekend I had the privilege of being able to attend the Labor Notes conference, a national union conference that had 4000 attendees […]
The large turnout on only a few hours notice shows the huge potential for a new movement of youth and workers. In future articles, Oaklandsocialist will examine what immediate demands can be […]
As this is being posted, it was just announced that the US Supreme Court has officially overturned Roe v Wade. The dictatorial role of these political hacks simply confirms everything in this […]
“We have lots of theories. We just don’t have any evidence.” So spoke Rudy Giuliani according to Mike Shirky, Republican State Senate in Michigan. If for no other reason, the fourth day […]
On the day after the third day of hearings of the January 6 House committee, the Wall St. Journal ran an editorial in which they essentially said that all decisions as far as […]
by Yorgos Mitralias The strangeness of this war of Mr. Putin in Ukraine is probably without historical precedent. Why? For a whole series of reasons, the first of which is that, for […]
The Republicans’ “team normal” reveal Trump’s crimes. U.S. capitalist rule based on “rule of law” and recognition of science, within limits. The “team normal and Democratic alliance to remove “the cause of […]
“I can just remember my breath catching in my throat because what I saw was just a war scene. It was something like I had seen out of the movies. “I couldn’t […]
Oaklandsocialist talked with Eugene in Kyiv. He talked about the situation there and the mood in general. A lot refers back to what actually happened in the Maidan revolt of 2014, which […]
I went to a meeting of the East Bay DSA “Night School” last night. This was a presentation supposedly on Ukraine. As I expected, the meeting was a not-so-subtle cover for Putin […]
Parker Elementary School in East Oakland has been under occupation for several weeks now. Here the parents and community members doing the occupation hold a press conference to explain why. Also see […]
On June 5, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign hosted a very successful meeting (with 40 attending) on Syria, Ukraine, Geopolitics and the working class. Michael Karadjis made an initial presentation, whose text […]
“‘Russian artillery is shooting from morning until evening,’ said Volodymyr Pohorilyy, 43, intelligence commander of the Dnipro-1 battalion, which holds several key positions in the region. ‘If our side shoots one their […]
From Anthony Boynton in Bogotá Colombia just had the first round of this year’s presidential elections, and some of the results were surprising. The fact that Gustavo Petro, the candidate of the […]
The reluctant half measures of Biden both domestically and in regards to Ukraine What the call for “negotiations” in Ukraine really means The similarity of the position of much of the US […]
The cowardice of the different police in the Uvalde disaster clarifies what really happens in many if not the great majority of police shootings of civilians. Take the example of the police […]
Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign will be sponsoring a meeting featuring Michael Karadjis. Michael is a lecturer at the University of Western Sidney in Australia. His blog site, Mkaradjis.com, contains some of the most […]
With 31 people murdered at two mass shootings in less that one week’s time, US society seems spiraling into pathologically violent insanity. How did we get this way and what is the […]
On May 22, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign (USSC) held a zoom meeting on the crisis in the left and in the working class. Fifteen people in all participated. Cheryl Zuur, long […]
The following article from a Russian Telegram Channel called “Volya”, which is roughly translated as “Free Will” says that there are serious discussions in Putin’s inner circle about the use of “tactical” […]
Oaklandsocialist publishes this article by Pete Glosser. Its perspective is not very optimistic as far as the war in Ukraine. However, while we support the defeat of the Russian invasion, we have […]
By Yorgos Mitralias May 9 has come and gone, and as has been the constant for the past two decades, both Mr. Putin’s enemies and friends have repeated in unison that on […]
Russian oligarchs’s $300 million yacht seized by Fiji on behalf of U.S.” blared the headline in the Washington Post. “Germany seizes world’s largest yacht because of its ties to Russian oligarch” blared […]
“This was pure evil,” said Erie County Sheriff, John Garcia about the racist murders at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, NY. His widely quoted statement is a cover up for the real […]
Here are photos of the abortion rights protest in Oakland. It was very poorly publicized. (I didn’t even know about it until I happened to pass by on my way to the […]
Ukrainian union organizer Artem Tidva talks about The unions from the old Soviet Union days Employers’ tactics to weaken unions since independence Relations between Ukrainian and Russian unions before the invasion and […]
From John Reimann for Oakland mayor. Feel free to reprint and distribute wherever you are, but especially in the East Bay and give to Amazon drivers. Or write up your own leaflet. […]
by Yorgos Mitralias For a long time now, almost everyone has been tormented by the same question: why are people turning their backs on the Left? Why does the Left seem so […]
The well known left intellectual Ron Jacobs has written an article in the equally well known left magazine Counterpunch, on the war in Ukraine. The article is called called “We need an […]
A Campaign Statement of John Reimann for Oakland Mayor It’s now out in the open: The fanatical Christian bigots have seized control not only over the Republican Party but also over the […]
Campaign statement by John Reimann for Oakland mayor. For more information, see: Why I will be running for Oakland Mayor “In February of this year I posted this article What an Oaklandsocialist […]
By Michael Karadjis Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: The following article is by Australian Marxist Michael Karadjis. He uses a couple of terms that may be unfamiliar to some. “Tankies” refers to those on […]
John Reimann And we’re talking with Olivier Delbeke in France about the elections there. Olivier is with Aplutsoc, which is the abbreviations of Argument (or Struggle) for the Social Struggle. Olivier For […]
The connection between Russian oppression and Stalinism The connection between Ukrainian nationalism and anti-communism The present basis of support for Ukrainian fascist groups How that could all change Since I was recently […]
Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 7250 executive committee has passed an excellent resolution on the war in Ukraine. We urge other union activists to raise this or similar resolutions. It starts: […]
Here are some photos of my visit to Lviv, Ukraine. I stress “Lviv” because I think it is not like other parts of Ukraine in that while the war has touched Lviv […]
Today the majority of socialists in the West argue that it is our duty to oppose “our” government’s sending arms to Ukraine. They equate the situation today with that at the start […]
I had a discussion with an unemployed construction worker today. He was in the army but was expelled after a month after they discovered that he’d been arrested some time ago for […]
Most of the time walking around Lviv you would just think this is a nice old city with interesting architecture. Some are apartent buildings built in the days of the old […]
To all those who denied the fact of Putin/Assad atrocities in Syria or ignored it; to all those who amplified the claim that the gas attacks there were a false flag; to […]
Russian war atrocities not limited to Bucha Atrocities reveal Putin’s real goal Putin’s trajectory towards complete domination at home and regionally Reasons for Biden’s completely inadequate response For a real workers program […]
The smashing victory of the Amazon Labour Union in Staten Island, NY, is the real sign of the times. Chris Smalls and Derrick Palmer and a small crowd of fellow workers overcame […]
Few paid attention when Matt Gaetz promised to nominate Trump for Speaker of the House if the Republicans won control in November. (See video above.) Those who did scoffed. They shouldn’t have, […]
We had a little literature table and talked with visitors to the Hayward Farmers Market this morning. Here are a few photos.
Implications of Russian military setbacks More limited political goals? US/NATO goals Possible use of chemical or “tactical” nuclear weapons and US response Can Russia become a “failed state”? Role of the Ukrainian […]
Australian Marxist Michael Karadjis commented on the issue of NATO’s expansion. He wrote: Quite frankly, while a former colony is being smashed to bits by hundreds of rockets and missiles artillery and […]
“You need to fight for workers rights, and you need to fight for your country.” We talked with Ukrainian socialist Vladyslav Starodubtsev. We discussed: The fight for workers rights in a neoliberal […]
The Maidan revolt The role of western imperialism including NATO Putin: Make Russia Great Again Support Ukraine’s right to get arms from any source possible Zelensky & Ukrainian capitalism The seizure […]
Oaklandsocialist interviewed Vitaly Dudin, labor activist in Ukraine. We discussed: The need to fight against Russia’s invasion Labor rights in Ukraine and neoliberalism The Ukrainian oligarchs’s role The seizure of both the […]
audio of interview with labor activist Vitaly Dudin in Ukraine. Full interview including text coming soon. Here this post on our podcast.
The Biden administration has announced the seizure of assets of Russian oligarchs. “These individuals and their family members will be cut off from the U.S. financial system, their assets in the United […]
Saturday was Burma Human Rights day. The Burmese American community held an event commemorating and linking it with the issue of human rights in Ukraine. Cheryl Zuur, retired union leader and long […]
Here is a video of an interview with Yaroslav Kovalchuk, who lives in Ukraine. Below is a transcript of the interview. Yaroslav explained the issue of nationalism – its limited impact and […]
by Junius Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: Although it is tiny and with hardly any influence, it is a mistake to ignore those on the left who call themselves “anti-imperialists”. It’s an even bigger […]
Putin’s situation becoming desperate. Is a coup possible? Is a fascist-type dictatorship possible? Is there a social base and an armed force for such a dictatorship? What is the working class alternative? […]
How should we see the efforts of France’s Emmanuel Macron, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Israel’s Naftali Bennet to negotiate a truce in Ukraine with Putin? Or any peace treaty among capitalists, […]
Oakland is planning on closing ten schools. Here’s a statement on this issue from John Reimann for Oakland Mayor. For more on our campaign, see: This interview with Zennie Abraham And […]
When I first heard about Zelensky agreeing to negotiate with Putin’s representatives I wondered, to say the least. What is there to negotiate over? Maybe this is just paranoia, but […]
Self described Ukrainian leftist discusses the situation within his country. He explains the powerful opposition to the Russian invasion, disputes the claim that there is a strong division between Russian and Ukrainian […]
Apparent Splits in Russian Military Tops: Possible Coup? NATO Spread the Cause of Invasion? Anti-War Protests Spread in Russia Military Assessment, Thermobaric bomb & Putin a “Cornered rat” Political Fallout in US […]
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now in full swing. Explosions have been heard near and around cities throughout the country. These appear to have been missile attacks on airports and possibly […]
We spoke briefly with Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov, who is located in Kyiv. Here is his report on the situation there at this moment:
A new stage has been reached in the Ukraine crisis. Putin has formally recognized the two breakaway “republics” – The Donetsk Peoples Republic and the Lunetsk Peoples Republic, known alternatively as the […]
Here is an interview with Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov. He reports on the situation in Ukraine today. Those who find the interview interesting might also be interested in our review of his […]
Canada’s so-called “Freedom” Convoy is blocking several major bridges between the US and Canada. Ford and General Motors are having to cut back production, meaning lay off workers, as a result. Meanwhile, […]
“Why has the fascist Canadian Truck Convoy had such an easy ride?” asks John Clarke in Canada. He answers his own question: The ability of a group of blatant fascists to […]
In 2014, prominent Ukrainian writer and intellectual Andrey Kurkov published a book called Ukraine Diaries. These are excerpts from diary entries Kurkov wrote during the Maidan protests. They cover not only what […]
Will Putin’s troops invade Ukraine? Putin says he is not planning to do so. However, he has every reason to deny it at this time. Most analysts predict that if he does […]
The crisis in Ukraine and the resulting extremely increased tensions between the US and Russian governments show that workers in the US cannot escape world events. That being so, it’s vital that […]
John Clarke reports from Canada It can’t be denied that the far right in Canada has achieved a major organizational and political advance with its truck convoy that challenged public health measures […]
“The world is on the brink of the largest military offensive in Europe since World War II.” So wrote Foreign Affairs magazine in an article entitled “The Day After Russia Attacks [Ukraine]”. […]
My long time friends, Marie McKenzie and Gregory Dunston, talk about homelessness in Oakland, including how churches are making money off the situation.
By Anthony Boynton And the winner is… China! Will Russia invade Ukraine? Probability is high, and not just because the Biden administration and the Ukrainians are afraid of it. Putin Putin faces […]
In Oaklandsocialist’s recent article “Will There Be A Coup?” we explored the various factors that would tend towards a “yes” and a “no” answer. This article homes in a little more about […]
Here is an edited/shortened version of an interview I did with Zennie Abraham of Zennie62Media on my campaign for Oakland Mayor: To see the full hour and twenty minute video, go here: […]
We usually think of a coup in terms of a military dictatorship, bloodshed, and tanks rolling down the streets. The main point, though, is the ending of “normal” democratic rights. That can […]
On January 6, 2022, liberal Democratic Party activist groups Moveon and Indivisible held memorial events to protest last year’s attempted Trump “auto coup”/riot in Washington DC. As elsewhere in the country, the […]
The process of scientists learning about Omicron should be a learning experience for workers as well. It is a living example of how a relationship between two events doesn’t necessarily prove cause-and-effect. […]
Once again, Oaklandsocialist’s Clairvoyant Correspondent scoops all other media by reporting a “transcript” of today’s Biden-Putin phone conversation. (NOTE: This story is filed under the category “Fiction More Real than Fact”) Scene: […]
I was sitting here watching the news with my heart pounding. It was partly out of pure anger, partly frustration – anger at what is being prepared for us and frustration that […]
In February of this year I posted this article What an Oaklandsocialist for Mayor in 2022 Campaign Could Accomplish. As I pointed out there, Oakland is not an isolated island; there is not […]
I have had multiple discussions with Trump-supporting workers. One of them I know personally. He’s a very nice guy to meet in person, and we had several long political discussions. Others I’ve […]
(Oaklandsocialist carries below an appeal for support for an imprisoned artist in Cuba. We fully support the demands for political freedom in Cuba. In doing so, we completely oppose any intervention by […]
Oxford, Michigan, Everytown, USA, where 95% of the population is white and over half the households are married couples. Median family income is $72,875, a very comfortable income considering that a new […]
US workers probably pay more attention to the politics in Britain than any other country outside the US. Therefore, the widening split in Britain’s Labour Party, and what may come out of […]
Oaklandsocialist recently posted an article on the Teamsters election and the role of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). Here is a more in-depth analysis of that group and the whole union […]
Oaklandsocialist Introduction: The election of supposed reformer Sean O’Brien as president of the Teamsters Union, along with his entire slate, has been greeted with near universal and uncritical enthusiasm on the left. […]
That then 17 year old killer Kyle Rittenhouse would walk free is ominous and has implications far greater than those for just this one individual. The NY Times’s Farhad Manjoo explained the […]
Antisemitism (which is not the same as anti-Zionism) is reviving as the far right, including outright fascism, develops. There were over 2,000 antisemitic attacks in 2020 compared with 751 in 2013. These […]
The Rittenhouse trial and the trial of the murderers of Ahmad Arbery have great importance. Coming as they do after the Texas abortion law, these trials will determine whether vigilantism will be […]
Striking John Deere workers rejected a second tentative agreement (TA) by a vote of 45% “yes” to 55% “no” on Tuesday. The new TA was a significant improvement from the first one, […]
The Day Before the Day After By John Reimann CHARACTERS (in order of appearance) NANCY PELOSI Speaker of the house JOE BIDEN President KAMALA HARRIS Vice President KAITLEN COLLINS a newscaster MAN […]
Note: Oaklandsocialist has carried numerous articles and videos of the struggle of carpenters in Western Washington to win a good contract. That struggle was basically a war on two fronts: Against both […]
Anti-Trump Old Guard Republican conservative Bret Stephens has an interesting column in today’s NY Times. It’s entitled “America’s Crumbling Global Position”. In it he details the foreign policy “failings” of President Biden. According […]
The accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins at the hands of Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust has to be understood in the light of the struggle of the stagehands’ […]
The powerful position that the striking John Deere workers find themselves in means that they can win absolutely everything they want. There is no need to compromise one iota. Wall St. Journal […]
Anand Gopal is a former reporter for the Wall St. Journal and author of the book “No Good Men Among the Living”. Gopal spent years traveling around in the hinterlands of Afghanistan, […]
Justin Mayhugh is an alternate delegate in UAW Local 31 and a member of a UAW caucus called Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD). He works on the assembly line for GM. […]
It’s no exaggeration: Western Washington carpenters can make history. That’s because the situation they face is not that very different from that faced by all union members in the US; if rank […]
by Cheryl Zuur I went to the SF Women’s March today, one of the many across the country. I really did not want to go but knew that I MUST go. Many […]
Last year the Vermont State AFL-CIO made some headlines when it called for a general strike in the event of an attempted coup by outgoing president Trump. Here, Oaklandsocialist talks with the […]
Here is a glimpse of what the rank and file carpenters in Western Washington have been doing, how they have been shutting down jobs. Along the way, they confront the union bureaucracy […]
Excerpts from speeches given by carpenters as well as others (including Kshama Sawant) at a rally she and her group – Socialist Alternative – organized.
Here is Art Francisco, the chair of the Peter J. McGuire Group, speaking at a rally organized by Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant.
Here is the speech I gave at a rally for the Western Washington carpenters on strike against the contractors and their own union leadership. The rally was organized by Seattle city council […]
The struggle of the rank and file carpenters took a new twist on Thursday (Sept. 23) when some union bureaucrats came out to try to red-bait Kshama Sawant. It didn’t turn out […]
Fed up with cut rate contract proposals/“tentative agreements” that were voted down four times, and fed up with a designed to fail “strike” policy, carpenters have started taking matters into their own […]
First the Carpenters Union leadership said it didn’t want a higher raise (for the members). That would hinder “recapturing market share”, you see. That business term means that the leadership sees the […]
I was expelled from the carpenters union in 2000. My experience might be helpful to those striking carpenters in Western Washington who are worried that if they violate the Council’s pro-contractor strategy […]
Kieran Knutson, President of CWA Local 7250, sent the following solidarity message to the carpenters Peter J. McGuire Group and to all the carpenters in struggle in Western Washington: Fellow workers – […]
The strike of Western Washington carpenters is the most important strike in America today. There are quite a few other trikes, including the Nabisco strike, that involve a lot more workers (for […]
By Jason Bartos, a striking carpenter The Fight Continues It has been an extremely exhausting week for me, the PJMG, and all of the brothers and sisters on the picket lines. I’m […]
Here is another striking carpenter, Nina Wurz, speaking. This is at a rally for rent control put on by Socialist Alternative. Introducing her is City Council member Kshama Sawant, the only city […]
Carpenters in Western Washington have forced their leadership to call a strike (of sorts). Here is Art Francisco, one of the leaders of the opposition caucus The Peter J. McGuire Group, speaking […]
My name is Cheryl Zuur. I am a retired industrial electrician and former president of AFSCME Local 444 in Oakland, California. I stand in solidarity with your struggle. Your courage to demand […]
Union carpenters in Western Washington are leading the American working class at this moment. They are not waiting for the official leadership to tell them what to do anymore. Instead, they are […]
Introduction: After having had four contract proposals/tentative agreements (TA’s) rejected by the membership, the leadership of the Western Washington Regional Council of Carpenters has been forced to call a strike. This is […]
Introduction This is a transcribed version of an introduction to a discussion on Afghanistan and the theory of permanent, or uninterrupted, revolution. The main purpose of the discussion was to try to […]
A writer in Germany describes the situation there and is uncertain how to vote: In Germany, elections for the Bundestag are coming up (a government and a chancellor are elected), and as […]
Rank and file carpenters in Washington State are organizing a Labor Day rally as part of their campaign to stop a cut-rate contract that the union leadership, together with the contractors, are […]
Now that US troops have pulled out of Afghanistan, the US media will be putting that country in the rearview mirror at best. It will be moving on to the next sensationalist […]
The new law in Texas banning abortion is trying to give the US Supreme Court a sneaky way to allow that ban while pretending to avoid the issue. They are doing that […]
Here is the third protest of the last week by Afghani Americans in the SF Bay Area. As with the other two, this protest was demanding the US allow Afghan refugees come […]
Dreams are like a good plum cobbler, mixing up all sorts of flavors – or emotions and thoughts – combining them in an unrecognizable way but with each ingredient also retaining its […]
by Cheryl Zuur I watched some bits of news/documentaries about Afghanistan on Youtube. Both of them followed a woman reporter (one from France News 24) into different parts of Afghanistan, including rural […]
Introduction, by Oaklandsocialist: It may seem to some, especially those of younger generations, that what happened in the Soviet Union is “yesterday’s news”. That is far from the truth. With “socialism” becoming […]
First it was very simple: I dreamed I had a brand new (bright yellow) power cord that had developed numerous cracks in the insulation. I had no idea what had caused the […]
Consider what this young woman – the MC – is saying: “Even though we are immigrants, we are kind of settlers, we are not invited here by the indigenous people…. There’s a […]
In order to understand the situation in Afghanistan, including who the Taliban is, we have to listen to the voices of Afghani people. Here is a video of a protest organized by […]
A theme is going around on the “left” that the fact that the Taliban “won” proves that they have popular support. One of the main “left” anti-war groups in the US – […]
by Rohini Hensman* in India We [in India] too protested against the US war on Afghanistan in writing and in demonstrations. The difference is that we had already been protesting and critiquing […]
With Afghani soldiers and police now reportedly stripping off their uniforms and abandoning their posts, and with (now former) President Ghani now reported as having fled the country, the former government […]
With Trump now out of office for six months, it’s time to look back over what the Trump years meant, and especially his last year in office. A series of new “Trump” […]
Yesterday, AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka died. Nobody who really cares about workers will mourn his death. But the greatest condemnation of Trumka came from Mark Milley, former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of […]
It is vital for workers – and for socialists within the working class – to know and understand the actual facts on any important issue in order to combat the hysteria, myths, […]
Roger Silverman reports from London The British Labour Party is currently convulsed in a historic crisis. Founded 120 years ago as the political voice of the trade unions at a time […]
Traducida por mst-rd Compañeros trabajadores: Según los reportes que recibimos, Irán está experimentando un estallido de huelgas y protestas: más de 2.000 en los últimos 12 meses. Esto incluye una huelga nacional […]
“If a hit man is hired and he kills somebody, the hit man goes to jail. But not only does the hit man go to jail, but the person who hired them […]
Fellow workers: According to reports, Iran is experiencing an absolute outburst of strikes and protests – over 2,000 in the last 12 months. This includes a national strike of over 100,000 oil […]
To all those Trump supporters, science denying anti-vaxxers, Second Amendment fanatics and conspiracy theorists who claim to love freedom: When have you ever walked on a picket line? When have you ever […]
Here is a video of some recent protests throughout Iran. As Oaklandsocialist has pointed out, if a workers movement succeeds in bringing down the Mullahs in Iran, it will transform the entire […]
From Anthony Boynton in Bogotá Tomorrow is Veinte de Julio (July 20th), one of the three independence days celebrated here in Colombia. It is a legal holiday, and a day upon which […]
Reprinted from Hekmatist.com Workers at gas, petrochemical and oil refineries have gone on strike across Iran over pay and conditions, health and safety, and social welfare. This is a national strike in […]
US Fascism Rests on Two Pillars by Junius Review of Craig Unger: American Kompromat This latest book by Craig Unger is a follow up of his House of Trump House of Putin’ […]
Oaklandsocialist has received the following report from Myanmar about the deadly increase in Covid there: “Everyday I saw loads of posts about asking for help Oxygen tanks (needed) everywhere in Myanmar…. One […]
Here is an interview Oaklandsocialist did with Simón Rodríguez, a Venezuelan socialist. The first part of the interview covers the general situation in Venezuela. The second part, starting at 13:49 minutes, covers […]
Below is issue Number 2 of the Myanmar Solidarity Bulletin. Oaklandsocialist presents it with these thoughts in mind: With a young fresh industrial working class growing by leaps and bounds, Southeast Asia […]
This is an interesting video for several reasons: First, it gives the clear impression that a few organized groups (Proud Boys and Oath Keepers mainly) had specific plans to invade the Capitol […]
John Reimann: The Republican attack on so called critical race theory has to be seen in its context. Just in the last few days, the republican controlled US Supreme Court made two […]
Pod cast. Video and transcript coming.
It is still way to early to know for sure, but some things are starting to emerge as far as the possible reasons for the collapse of the condo tower (Champlain Tower […]
On a 50-50 vote along strict party lines, the US Senate has failed to override a Republican filibuster of the voting rights act. Every single Republican voted to keep the bill off […]
The first edition of the Myanmar Solidarity Bulletin has just been published. Oaklandsocialist is proud to have been one of the participants. We urge readers to download the pdf and help distribute […]
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has published an important article on “Myanmar’s Coming Revolution”. This article is important if for no other reason than that the CFR is the most important […]
The German revolution of 1919 and the years that followed hold many fundamental lessons for today. That includes lessons for the general uprising of the Asian working class that may be developing […]
Anthony Boynton reports from Bogotá, Colombia: Tomorrow (Wednesday June 9, 2021) could be a turning point for the mass movement that erupted here at the end of April and which has thrown […]
The Republican Party has been transformed into a real and serious threat, one that is much greater than anything we have seen in over 100 years. Because of the undemocratic nature of […]
On May 29, the Burmese community held a solidarity rally to unite all the different ethnic nationalities in Burma against the military junta. Here is a short video of that rally, featuring […]
The Black Lives Matter movement can take credit for having forced Israel to back off, even if only partially and temporarily. It is an example of international solidarity in action which goes […]
Back in 2014, when the corporate-controlled Oakland Zoo was moving to destroy a large part of the beautiful open space Knowland Park, zoo spokesman Nick Dehajia explained that the project would “change […]
Anthony Boynton reports from Bogotá, Colombia, on the background to the mass protest movement that has broken out there. Also, at the end, we have received an update, dated May 15. As […]
If Trump Mark I whipped up bigotry and denialism beyond anything seen in recent decades, if he did all he could to suppress democratic rights and to open up the environment to […]
India today: where the unimaginable actually exists through a human society near total collapse. As Indian commentator and activist Arundhati Roy put it: “The system hasn’t collapsed…. What we are witnessing is […]
The US Civil War and Reconstruction Presented by Irene Kellogg Irene writes: The Civil War and the Reconstruction Period were the most powerful periods of American history. Four million slaves liberated themselves […]
Are we in an interregnum, a pause before we plunge into the abyss? Is the Joe Biden presidency just a temporary respite, the lull before the storm? In the pre-Trump era such […]
The ending of the Derek Chauvin trial means that this will be the last week where that holds “first place” as a separate category in this week’s news summary. Police, Derek Chauvin […]
Video of April 24 Milk Tea Alliance protest in San Francisco. Also see Oaklandsocialist articles: Myanmar in Struggle: Workers of the World Unite! and: General Strike in Myanmar: Don’t Forget the Rohingya! […]
The conviction of Derek Chauvin is worthy of celebration. It also shows the capitalist class’s desire to rein in police, but that threatens to open up a huge crisis as the cops […]
Crisis looms as capitalists struggle to rein in police. It certainly was a beautiful sight: Derek Chauvin being led away with his hands cuffed behind his back, and millions celebrated it […]
For me, this last week was dominated by watching the Chauvin trial, and working on Burma/Myanmar solidarity and finally getting into shape the interview/discussion with Kieran Knutson and Cheryl Zuur. (See main […]
In the second half of this interview with CWA Local 7250 president Kieran Kieran Frazier Knutson, we focused on labor’s political role. As the Derek Chauvin trial was ongoing at the time, […]
This is the first part of a two part interview with recently elected president of CWA Local 7250, Kieran Frazier Knutson. In this first part, Kieran mainly discusses how he sees his […]
Here are some comments on the Derek Chauvin trial as it was unfolding plus comments on some other news, for the week ending April 11. Where I have included a few comments […]
Also see Oaklandsocialist’s articles: Myanmar in Struggle: Workers of the World, Unite! General Strike in Myanmar: Don’t Forget the Rohingya!
What is happening here that workers in the Amazon distribution center in Bessemer Alabama voted down the union by almost 2-1? It’s not that unions in general are unpopular. On the contrary, […]
Zoom Meeting Saturday, April 10, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Coast Time: What are the latest developments in the movement in Myanmar, what are some of the problems and complications, and how can we […]
Oaklandsocialist spoke at this Free Burma rally in San Francisco. We drew the links between the struggle in Burma/Myanmar, the global struggles for democratic rights, and the struggle here in the United […]
Note: Oaklandsocialist will try to have a regular weekly article with comments on events of the previous week. Last week, all the stars aligned to focus attention on the trial of Derek […]
Zoom Meeting The Derek Chauvin Trial: Remember George Floyd! Hear a first hand report from Linda Mann in Minneapolis on the Derek Chauvin trial. Linda will discuss last year’s uprising and the […]
President Trump may be out of office, but his drive to eliminate (capitalist) democracy is not. It has just taken a new route: Vastly increased voter suppression. So far, over 250 voter […]
Zoom meeting: Myanmar in struggle A huge movement against the military coup continues in Myanmar. The army there, which previously carried out atrocities against the Rohingya people, is now using similar methods […]
183 killed, 74 last Sunday, March 14, alone. 2,175 reported arrested, many facing charges that could mean execution. Yet tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions continue to pour onto the […]
PERSPECTIVES FOR THE USA A Workers’ International Network meeting introduced by John Reimann (Oakland Socialist) and Tia Kurtisnger-Edison (Kentucky Alliance) The USA has entered a period of turmoil and instability. What […]
Here is a recording of the Zoom meeting we announced, the discussion on what is happening in the British Labour Party. Presenters were Tina Werkmann, Pam Bromley and John Dunn. The discussion […]
Here is a podcast of the discussion on the British Labour Party.
Zoom meeting Saturday, March 6 What is happening with the British Labour Party? When left wing Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of Britain’s Labour Party, millions of workers and young people were […]
Here is a documentary of Fred Hampton in his own words, unedited and revolutionary. The second half is a documentary investigation of his murder. Overall, this video not only shows the fearless […]
(Recently there has been denials on the left of reports of repression of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang Province in China. Here, Aaron Ruby, an avowed communist, who visited Xinjiang Province […]
I wrote once before about these weird deep state hearing aids that I got. As I noted then, if truth is stranger than fiction sometimes, then fiction can be truer than truth. With […]
A political vacuum of unprecedented proportions has opened up in the United States. Not since the US Civil War has the US capitalist class faced such a political crisis. It spent four […]
They poured out onto the streets in the millions. They have brought the country to a virtual standstill. This is Myanmar today – workers, youth, small business people, opposing the military coup […]
Police open fire on protesters in Mogadishu by Mohamed Abdi Nour General Secretary, Somali Public Trade Union Gunfire erupted in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Friday morning after security forces cut off a […]
Republican Party Declares War on Black & Latino Voters Union Activists Can Organize to Stop Them The Republican Party has declared war on black and Latino voters. That is what happened when […]
On the second day of the senate trial for Trump’s second impeachment, Democratic impeachment managers showed chilling video of the marauding mob rushing through the Capitol building, looking for various politicians. At […]
As the impeachment hearings approach, it pays to look back at the what lead up to the January 6 lynch mob/coup attempt and what lessons can be learned. An article in the […]
The lack of a mass working class party in the US is the key to the crisis workers are facing. If and when that starts to build, that will transform US and […]
Brian Taylor is the author of the article ” PROSECUTE and JAIL KILLER COPS! A Tale of Mis-leadership: Why ‘Black Lives Matter: Cincinnati’ Changed Its Name” Here he explains this issue. We […]
Marxism is so marginalized that it is just a drop in the ocean of the wider working class. Because of this, we tend all too often to just think only of ourselves […]
We Can’t Wait New Orleans was one of the only groups in the US to hold a rally demanding real economic relief. Here is a video of a discussion they organized around […]
Although things are very much in flux, the dim outlines for the next two years are starting to emerge from the mist. Executive Orders Whatever the reason, Biden’s Covid relief proposal goes a […]
My speech at an anti-fascist rally earlier today. One of the groups that was a main organizer is a group that supports Assad, so I had to speak on that issue, among […]
Senator Everett Dirkson once said “You take a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you come up with serious money.” So, what in the world has come over Joe Biden? […]
For 150 years the US capitalist class has ruled through alternating the power between one of its two parties. The secondary differences in their roles helped assure the stability of that system […]
We have received the following message of solidarity from the Somali Public Trade Union. Such solidarity is what is needed. In sending this message, the SPTU is setting an example for the […]
What will happen over the next 13 days is not a slam dunk. Trump is on the retreat as he has never been before. Even some Republicans are talking about impeachment or […]
In Munich Germany in 1923, Adolph Hitler instituted the “Beer Hall Putsch”. This attempted coup was a total failure as far as seizing power and it resulted in Hitler’s arrest. After a […]
A couple of off-the-cuff thoughts on the state of affairs in US politics: (As this is being written, there are reports of a minimum of 30,000 Trump hysterics and various bigots gathering […]
Introduction: Nowadays truth is stranger than fiction and fiction is truer than truth. Keeping that in mind… I got a set of hearing aids the other day, but I think the hearing […]
Sisters and Brothers, we hope you as an individual and/or your political group or union will sign onto this call: Call to Action The Covid relief bill passed by the Democrats and […]
From John Dunn in Britain, who is starting off the new year right I did my best to have a good Christmas, as I always enjoy commemorating the birth of an imaginary […]
As 2020 comes to a close, two old stories are put to rest. Or so the cops and capitalist politicians hope. Those are the stories of Tamir Rice and Breonna Taylor. Tamir […]
Twas the week before Christmas and all through the hood, A man was walking who meant no good. He was posting a note on many a door, Telling the folks they would […]
Pay close attention to the “debate” on the Senate floor over whether that body will take up the one time only $2000 payment. It’s a reminder that those who control the agenda […]
A long time comrade of mine in Britain was comparing Boris Johnson to Trump. “Johnson’s less grotesque, but he’s also completely incompetent, unprincipled and narcissistic,” he wrote. After a bit of back […]
Oaklandsocialist interviewed Leda Victoria, revolutionary socialist, feminist and member of MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) in Mexico. She discusses her candidacy as part of an Anticapitalist United Front that is preparing to run […]
History matters, whether it is the history of 10 years ago or one hundred . That is especially true for the process of revolution and counter revolution. If we completely misunderstand those […]
A recent article in the NY Times plus some articles by scientist Dale W. Harrison help us understand what the three new Covid-19 vaccines apparently can and cannot do. Sterilizing vs. Disease […]
by Michael Frank Primaries in American politics have often been referred to as “money primaries,” meaning that big money determines who the final candidates are. Those candidates who fall behind their competitors […]
The capitalist talking heads are celebrating. “It’s been five weeks now, and the institutions of our democracy held against this onslaught,” said constitutional lawyer Ben Ginsburg on CNN on Friday night. “Our […]
Oaklandsocialist launches its powerful new Marxist time machine to bring you this news report from February, 2021: Congressional Republicans walk out as President Biden addresses joint session of congress February 30, 2021 […]
(By John Reimann, Oaklandsocialist administrator and reprinted from Left Voice.) There is currently a record 90,000 hospitalized with Covid-19, and over a quarter of a million people in the United States have […]
The assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was almost certainly carried out by Israel. Nor is it likely to be any coincidence that they did it before Trump leaves office […]
Not just food “insecurity”, but absolute hunger is stalking America. A community food bank in Rhode Island reports a 26% increase in those seeking assistance and they estimate that one in four […]
A friend and comrade of mine has been urging me to put together a bibliography of some of the books I have in my “library”. Here it is. I have put in […]
The news of this new method of producing vaccines may be just as ominous as it is welcome. Of course, we welcome a vaccine that can provide protection against Covid 19. But […]
Every thinking worker, every worker who cares about other people (or the planet), every worker who understands the need for working class solidarity will be breathing a sigh of relief that Trump […]
Just when we thought things were settling down in the US, Trump has provoked a new crisis with his refusal to accept the election results. What does this crisis tell us about […]
In refusing to accept the verdict of 75 million voters, Donald Trump and his Trump-owned and operated Republican Party (Team Trump) may be sowing immediate confusion. They may be creating further conditions […]
Thought for the day: The two greatest prominent leaders of the last 75 years were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. What made them great was their willingness and ability to […]
The coming removal of Bigot-in-Chief DonaldTrump from the White House was met with dancing in the street across the country. Rightfully so. However, we should also keep this exchange in mind: “You’re […]
Watching the election results, and like the overwhelming majority of thinking workers, yes, I do hope that Trump loses. That is starting to look like it is more possible and it’s turning […]
The police pepper spraying of the marchers in N. Carolina who were marching to support Black Lives Matter… The Trump vigilante car caravan interference with the Biden campaign bus in Texas… Trump’s […]
After 50 years of never voting for any “lesser evil” Democrat, I voted for Joe Biden the other day. I waited for weeks to fill in the little circle by his name. […]
Oaklandsocialist has been mistaken. We have said for several years that Trump is out of the control of the mainstream of the US capitalist class. No. He is out of the control […]
Oaklandsocialist interviewed Joe Burns, author of Reviving the Strike and Strike Back. Joe is the head of bargaining for the Association of Flight Attendants. The main thesis of both books is that […]
Eric Blanc, one of the leaders of DSA, has published an article urging DSA to campaign for Biden. His point is that this time it’s different (which is also the title of an […]
Oaklandsocialist was interviewed recently on New Jersey Revolution Radio. The whole show is interesting, but my part starts at 37:20 in.
The elevation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and the fact that that court will now have five Trump thinkalikes; the role of the armed and dangerous “militias” and […]
CNN reported an interesting result regarding last night’s Biden/Trump debate: One reporter of theirs watched the debate with ten “undecided” voters in North Carolina. As a result of the debate none of […]
In 1935, John L. Lewis, president of the coal miners union, famously punched right wing president of the Carpenters, Bill Hutchenson, in the jaw, walked out of the AFL, and formed the […]
It now seems increasingly likely that Trump will be gone come January 20. In order to understand where we might be headed, we have to consider what Trump represents. We are in […]
Here’s my talking heads, political junkie analysis of last night’s debate between Pence and Harris: I think the Democrats’ strategy during last night’s debate was simply “don’t screw up.” In other words, […]
Kieran Knutson and Cliff Willmeng are long time fighters for working class people and all the oppressed. They are also anti-capitalists who both live in Minneapolis and are running for […]
The news of Trump’s testing positive for Covid 19 has largely overridden discussion of his bullying behavior during the debate with Biden. This positive test is no accident. By continually engaging in […]
Equating the Proud Boys with white supremacy has some serious limitations. That’s because they actually have black members and they don’t campaign against black people per se. Despite their denials, however, they […]
An article from Atlantic magazine is drawing considerable notice. The publishers considered the article so important that they published the October issue of their magazine (which contains the article) before its scheduled publication […]
The current issue of the popular “left” magazine Jacobin has an article Why Won’t the US’s Largest Labor Federation Talk About a General Strike? But the author doesn’t even ask a lot “smaller” […]
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will probably decisively end an entire era in the role of the US Supreme Court and how it is seen by the great majority of Americans. […]
It’s important for workers to understand the history of social democracy, known as “democratic socialism” in the US. Like elsewhere in Europe, in Denmark it arose as part of the working class […]
It was dark and eerie all day as smoke from wildfires all the way from upper Washington down through Oregon and Northern California hovered over Oakland. A young woman told me “it […]
I want to leave California. In 1969, when I first arrived in this state, already much of nature was being destroyed, but it was still beautiful. We used to take trips up […]
“Those of us who are radicalized often accept the premises of our enemies…. But we arrive at a moment when we understand that those who are running things are a bunch […]
Here is the first part of a two-part series of Rob Wallace speaking on capitalist development and Covid 2. This was recorded from a meeting hosted by the Workers International Network. For […]
First of two parts of the presentation of Rob Wallace on capitalism and Covid 19. Also see posts as video.
A major split is opening up within the US capitalist class. This split has implications for the already-existing movement from below. Two columns in the September 3 NY Times show what is […]
COVID 19, HABITAT DESTRUCTION AND FACTORY FARMING A Workers International Network Meeting Sunday 6th September at 7 p.m. British Summer Time/ 1pm US Central Time Speaker: Rob Wallace Rob Wallace is an evolutionary epidemiologist with the Agro-ecology and Rural Economics Research […]
Oaklandsocialist distributed this leaflet at the Oakland protest against the shooting of Jacob Blake. We got a good response. Let’s hope something comes of it, especially since the pro athletes are setting […]
Here is an interview that this blog site’s administrator, John Reimann, did with popular radio host Davey D Cook on the environmental causes of Covid 19 – how this and other viruses […]
A central feature of the events in Belarus is going more or less unreported: Fully one half of the Belarusian economy is through state-owned enterprises. This fact has given Belarus dictator Alexander […]
A month ago, Oaklandsocialist carried a report of the strike of Haft Tapeh strikers in Iran. We also wrote the following letter of support: “We send our comradely greetings to the Haft […]
A recent column in the Washington Post, entitled Trump Keeps Pretending to be Dictator, explained that presidents are “constrained by Congress and the courts and the law and international treaties, not to […]
My interview with Davey D of Hard Knock Radio. How Covid 19 is spread through unsafe factory farming For more detail on the environmental issues, see this article: Covid 19, capitalism […]
“Belief in science is the worst form of superstition ever”… a medical doctor in Germany. “Listen up Numb nuts This whole mask thing is a psyop to condition you to comply with […]
WSJ editors suggest Trump withdraw from race Trump’s troubles with his own class – the US capitalist class – continue to worsen. They see him as too unreliable, too destabilizing of their […]
It is past time for a movement in the streets to demand the continuation and in fact the expansion of the $600/week federal unemployment subsidy! The US economy in free fall, declining […]
By a member of the UFCW and anti-racist activist Friday July 17th 2020 This protest was organized in response to the attacks on Main St businesses with Neo Nazi propaganda. Contrary to […]
The strategy of the Trump reelection campaign is starting to come into more clear focus. That strategy is to combine widespread repression with voter suppression in order to return Trump into office […]
John Lewis, long time civil rights icon and then member of the House of Representatives has died. Many on the left will remember him for his role as an establishment liberal. I […]
A short note on the Covid-19 economy: If you think things are bad now, you ain’t seen nothing yet. While there was a slight pickup in May, which continued into June to […]
From Aman Kafa of the Hekmatist Party (official Line) – Organization Abroad July 14, 2020 Four representatives and speakers of Haft Tapeh workers, Youseff Bahmani, Ebrahim Abassi, Mohammad Khanifar, Moslem Cheshm Khavar […]
Compared to the lies of Trump and the religious mysticism of Mike Pence, Anthony Fauci seems like a breath of fresh air. He bases himself on science, after all. Why, then, has […]
When a big game hunter goes after a large and dangerous beast, he had better understand how that beast functions, or else the hunter can become the hunted. The same is true […]
Friends and comrades, “Police reform” is one of the major issues of the day. For liberals and social democrats, the question stops there. Marxists have to have clarity on the question. We […]
By a Minneapolis union member and anti-racist activist The crimes of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) against the people of Minneapolis are many. This is an organization charged with upholding an unjust […]
What do we make of Trump’s claim that he was never briefed on the US intelligence belief that Putin’s government had placed a bounty on the heads of US soldiers in Afghanistan? […]
The Republicans’ November election strategy is starting to emerge. Yesterday the US Supreme Court made an important but lightly noticed ruling on Texas voting law. They allowed Texas to prohibit all mail-in […]
Hold up! What is that sound we’re hearing? Is it the sound of the air being let out of the Trump balloon? Trump’s moves to consolidate his grip on the various branches […]
Some photos of yesterday’s event: Next is the march over the overpass towards downtown Oakland Next in front of OPD headquarters and at Oscar Grant Plaza I always feel that some […]
Short video from the Juneteenth Port of Oakland shutdown. Also see leaflet Oaklandsocialist distributed. Also see still photos here. Make it a movement
by a worker at Seward Co-op On June 16th nearly the entire staff on shift at Seward Co-op’s Franklin Ave. store in Minneapolis walked out for a 9 minute work stoppage to […]
Abolish the Police Pt. 1 What is the MPD and why it can’t be made into something for us . . . By a Minneapolis union member and anti-racist activist (This is […]
Trump is in deep trouble, but the outcome is uncertain. His national approval ratings are sinking like a stone, down from 41% approval, compared to 55% disapproval as of June 11. This […]
Two weeks after George Floyd was choked to death by the Minneapolis police, the AFL-CIO has issued a full statement on this crime. They should have waited two years. “The scourge of […]
When the police make a high-profile arrest, they make him or her walk in public through the throng of reporters. It’s called a “perp walk.” On June 6, Minneapolis’s reform minded young […]
This leaflet is based on the previous article on the need for a program. If you like it, please use it!(Note:pdf at bottom.) ungovernable movement needs program
We have marched, we have sat-down, we have occupied freeways. And yet the wave of murders of black people by the police continues. It has unleashed a rage. From Bronx New York to […]
A short video of the protest in Oakland on Friday, June 5. If you like the video, we urge you to check out our blog. See, for example, Minneapolis and the Crisis […]
Video of the protests in Oakland over last few days. Also see articles on Minneapolis and the crisis of US capitalism, and other related articles including a solidarity letter from the Somali […]
Photos from Oakland protests. The top ones are from the aftermath of the first night of protests here.
The Somali Public Trade Union sends this message of solidarity to the protesters in the US and to the family of George Floyd. Please distribute widely. A pdf of this message is […]
Leaflet I’m distributing. Also see: George Floyd murder shows need to completely transform the unions.
Divided, led by a demented and out-of-control president who is absolutely despised and has no credibility whatsoever among wide layers of society, with out-of-control police forces across the country, the US capitalist […]
Oaklandsocialist has received the following appeal: SPTU, Is an Independent trade union based in Somalia. is shocked and outraged by the barbaric killing of seven healthcare workers and one civilian at the […]
Kieran is a union member and a long-time activist in Minneapolis. Here he explains who it is who has been out in the streets, how the police and the politicians are reacting […]
Essential Work by Raymond Nat Turner We’ll always need Race car drivers roaring down streets where children chase balls; like We’ll always need peaceful protesters pepper sprayed like cockroaches; And We’ll always […]
“Science and socialism go hand-in-hand” Felicity Dowling In today’s NY Times, the bard of neoliberalism, Thomas Friedman, wrote about how Trump cannot defeat “Mother Nature”, which as he explained “is entirely made up […]
Podcast of Oaklandsocialist introduction to Zoom meeting of this title. The meeting was hosted by the Workers International Network (WIN).
More Mengele Medicine from Boss Tweet and the1% “As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.” ― Hippocrates “It is very […]
Covid-19, the rise of new zoonotic* diseases, and the capitalist disaster Saturday 23rd May at 9 a.m. Pacific Time [* Zoonotic = diseases transmitted from other species to humans] The Covid-19 pandemic […]
Oaklandsocialist talks with ER nurse Cliff Willmeng. Cliff was terminated for fighting for safety on the job. For more on the worker fightback, see our article Strike wave without precedent which can […]
With each twist and turn in events, with each step he takes, Trump is driven ever further down the road of one-man authoritarian rule. His recent steps in that direction have flown […]
So, here’s a little bit of personal history, a mistake that I made, that maybe we all can learn from: In 1999, some 2000 SF Bay Area carpenters went out on a […]
How does the sound of “President Franklin Delano Cuomo” grab you? Like it or not, Cuomo is already in effect running against Trump. Every day he’s on national TV, giving a fact-based […]
A wave of strikes and walk-outs that is unprecedented in numbers is sweeping the United States. It’s largely flown under the radar because the capitalist press in general isn’t reporting on it […]
“The daily death toll [from Covid-19] will reach about 3,000 [nearly double the official White House prediction] on June 1, according to an internal [CDC] document obtained by The New York Times…” […]
Here is a short video of May Day, 2020 in Oakland. We end this video with a call to support all those workers who are working under unsafe conditions, but especially the […]
MAY DAY GREETINGS! We’re celebrating May Day 2020 in extraordinary times. The flimsy tissue of capitalist “civilisation” has been torn asunder. So far a quarter of a million people have died worldwide, […]
New oaklandsocialist pamphlet Covid-19: The capitalist pandemic Introduction As the capitalist class loses control over society, a new workers’ movement seems to be breaking out. Already, workers have conducted over 100 […]
John Ioannidis is at it again. He’s got an article that is making the rounds in scientific circles which claims that the actual mortality rate for Covid-19 is far lower than thought […]
Is Donald Trump cracking up? An article in Thursday’s NY Times describes him as being “in a sour mood after his morning marathon of television” (which he watches for five or six […]
Please sign the petition and pass it on. Grocery workers are essential workers and their health and safety is as important as anybody else’s. Yet in this Covid-19 emergency, the stores are […]
This notice is being posted in SaveMart and Lucky’s food stores, at least in Northern California. The information on the particular store where this has been posted is blacked out to protect […]
The back-to-work/business as usual protests of far right fanatics is a threat to your health and safety. Consider: At Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy, CA, 51 workers were found to be infected. […]
In response to the calls of the Trump idiots and of the Idiot in Chief himself to go back to work, there have been conversations on various construction worker Facebook pages. Here’s […]
By Raymond Nat turner coronavirus is coming across treacherous food deserts—their Red Lined decades of diabetes— over hills of hypertension; steep mountains of medical neglect; over shattered ruins of poverty like a […]
The Covid-19 pandemic is but the most striking example of how the laws of nature are affecting the lives of ordinary working class people. As we will show, we as workers cannot […]
