The administrator of this blog site, I am a lifelong socialist and a retired carpenter and the former recording secretary and an expelled member of Carpenters Local 713. I was expelled for my leading role in the 1999 SF Bay Area carpenters wildcat strike as well as for his opposition to the union bureaucracy in general. I was one of the founding members of a small group called Labor Militant, which was the forerunner to Socialist Alternative. Along with a small group of others, I was expelled when that group started to adapt to the union bureaucracy. I have also visited the workers' movement internationally, including in Pakistan, Egypt (during the Arab Spring), Britain, Mexico and Chile (during the uprising there in 2020). Unless otherwise specified, I am the author of the articles that appear here. Although I am the main author, Oaklandsocialist welcomes articles on any issue that relates to the working class. Contact us at Oaklandsocialist@gmail.com.
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 […]
In preparing my memoirs, I’m writing on the expulsion of a few of us from what was then “Labor Militant”, which was the predecessor to Socialist Alternative. This pamphlet explains the political […]
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 […]
