Just days after the big women’s march, the leaders of the building trades unions in the US held a nice sit-down with Donald Trump, helping to give him cover for his anti-worker […]
Building trades leaders meet with Trump
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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.
Video: Oakland’s Women’s March
Includes a few interviews… See here for a more in-depth article.
Women’s March and the Coming Battles
Exactly what the mainstream of US capitalism feared now seems to be under way: Trump has poked a hornets’ nest. Consider: “The Metro public transit system reported that about 275,000 trips had […]
Chelsea Manning and the Coming Movement
The commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence has to be welcomed. But it also has to be understood in its context. The context is the coming movement against Trump and the role of […]
Mumia on MLK Day
Join The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal at the MLK March Monday 16 January 2017 at 10:45 AM Meet us with the Labor Rising contingent at: 16th & Clay, downtown […]
You couldn’t make this s_t up!
Regarding the “golden shower” Trump rumors: CNN hinted at this is a recent broadcast when they reported that a CIA briefing of Trump and of Obama included an “addendum” which said that […]
Tulsi Gabbard: A New Democratic Party Star?
The latest rising star on the liberals’ horizon is Tulsi Gabbard, the Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii. A military vet and a prominent participant in the Bernie Sanders campaign, she has all the […]
A New Political Party: “Blueprint” or Perspectives?
A bit of a discussion is under way (again) about an alternative to the Democrats. Seth Ackerman has written an article “A Blueprint for a New Party”, for example. His “blueprint” is […]
Syria: Can Any Capitalist Force Provide a Solution?
Can any capitalist regime help the masses of Syrian people? That is the question of the hour. Some, incredibly including some socialists, believe so. They base this belief on the view that […]
Christmas in the trenches
The real meaning of a shared holiday: WW I was the classic inter-imperialist war, in which working class young men were sent to kill each other for the interests of big business. […]