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oaklandsocialist
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.
LA teachers reach tentative agreement
Teachers in Los Angeles have been on strike for over a week. Now, it seems the LA teachers’ strike has reached a tentative agreement, with a decent raise and a few other […]
Brexit: History repeating itself as a farce
by Roger Silverman in London Marx talked famously of history repeating itself as farce. However, even he might have found it hard to envisage the pantomime that the British ruling class now […]
East Bay DSA Meeting Report: Unwilling to Debate Political Differences
For the first time in many decades socialism matters. The largest socialist group in the US is Democratic Socialists of America. That’s why what DSA does matters also. Below is a report […]
Letter from Radical Women and Reply from Codepink
Last December, we published an open letter to Codepink about their planned “peace caravan” to Iran. Without giving the slightest support to US capitalism’s threats and attacks against Iran, we criticized this […]
Money-Launderer-in-Chief Trump, the capitalist media and socialism: A timeline
Here is a timeline of how the mainstream US capitalist media has covered the issue of Trump’s financial ties with the Russian mafia capitalist class. This timeline is significant, because it provides […]
FBI Investigation: Trump’s Russia link starting to come out into the open
The NY Times has now revealed that the FBI has been investigating Trump for working for Russia! They write: ” “In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law […]
“Waiting on Capitalist Hill”
From the ever creative and insightful Raymond Nat Turner: Waiting on Capitalist Hill… “Universal suffrage is thus the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be […]
Trump’s Oval Office Speech and Silence of Labor Leaders
Donald Trump has learned some lessons from the Republicans’ defeat last November. “America proudly welcomes millions of lawful immigrants who enrich our society and contribute to our nation. But all Americans are […]
Iran Labor Leader Speaks of Torture in Prison
Reprinted from Alliance of Middle East Socialists. This is confirmation of our criticism of CodePink’s “Peace Caravan” to Iran. See the Open Letter to CodePink. Jan 7, 2019 Esmail Bakshi, leader of the […]