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.
by John Reimann “Residents cowered in cellars as artillery shells screamed overhead. The southern end of town became a no man’s land as Confederate snipers hidden in houses traded fire with Union […]
Waving signs such as “NoBama” and “No oil here; move on”, South Africans protested the visit of US President Obama for his war crimes, his global warming policies, etc. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/29/thousands-protest-obamas-arrival-in-south-africa/
My wife and I were married by a gay friend. Her partner was from another country as is my wife. But in the case of our friend, her partner had come here […]
Canadian tar sands project — Obama appears to be preparing to okay Keystone Pipeline It’s been quite a few weeks for news here in the United States. First, Edward Snowden revealed that […]
Reminder to SF Bay Area Residents: Meeting on Sunday, June 23 Capitalism & the Disaster of Hydraulic Fracking Sunday, June 23; 10:30 a.m. Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph, Oakland
On, June 18th, the People of Boulder witnessed an amazing turn of events that will have ripple effects across the State of Colorado. Due to relentless public pressure demanding a closer examination of the […]
by John Reimann NOTE: sparked by a critixism of another article on use of poison gas in Syria, we are reviewing other early articles on the Syrian revolution and counter-revolution. This article is […]
Here is a video of a mass march in Turkey. It is absolutely massive. Note that the police have not attacked it. Maybe this is significant.
Here is Josh Fox, maker of Gasland and Gasland II, being interviewed on the Maher show. He is attacked by some proponents of fracking and gives no quarter. He is not intimidated […]
Assad is a brutal dictator but the Saudi and Bahraini regimes are perfectly fine; political assassinations are terrorist acts, the worst sin in the world, unless they are carried out by drones; […]
