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.
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 […]
