Just filing your taxes? Expecting a refund… maybe $500 or even $1000 or even double that? Planning on paying some bills with it? Or else… why don’t you spend it on a […]
Celebrate April 15… at $120 a shot!
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.
Bucket With Three Inch Hole
“It’s like a bucket with a three inch hole that the water’s flowing out through, and we’re pouring water in through a one inch hole.” That’s how a Carpenter Union “organizer” described […]
Trump’s Latest Bombing Attack: Statement of Alliance of Syrian and Iranian Socialists
Here is a commentary from the Alliance of Syrian and Iranian Socialists regarding Trump’s latest bombing of Syria. We specifically say his “latest bombing” because this is far from the first. It’s […]
Alliance of Syrian and Iranian Socialists Statement of Purpose
Oaklandsocialist reproduces here the statement of purpose of the Alliance of Iranian and Syrian Socialists. We don’t know much about this alliance, but we think this statement offers a valuable contribution to […]
Trump’s Latest Attack: An Answer to Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald, the influential “left” journalist at “The Intercept” has written a confused and in some ways dishonest article on Trump’s latest attack on Syria. Of course, Greenwald is right to denounce […]
Mobster-in-Chief Donald Trump: Life imitates art.
If life imitates art, then the behind-the-scenes Trump story is torn from the pages of a John Le Carre novel. For those who don’t know his books, they are political and social […]
World War or World Socialist Revolution?
The world situation is much worse than the liberals and some socialists think. We saw this through a recent meeting of the socialist “Peace and Freedom Party” featuring a speaker who is […]
Moctezuma and the Crisis of Aztec Society
“History is the most dangerous of subjects.” So said Malcolm X, and a history class I’m taking at Laney College shows why. Called “world history” and taught by Dr. Susan Kahn, it […]
Update: Trump and Russia
This is a real crisis both for the US capitalist class and for Trump. Every night CNN has over an hour raking Trump over the coals over this “Russia” issue. Much of […]
Who is the Syria Solidarity Movement?
“The Only position that PFP (Peace and Freedom Party) has Re Syria is that we oppose any and all US/ Nato Intervention….” So wrote a prominent member of the Peace and Freedom […]