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.
The MAGA US supreme court’s ruling on presidential immunity is simply a political ruling cloaked in legal terms. Why do CNN, the Democratic party and others take it as anything but that? […]
From aplutsoc.org Paris, June 30, 2024 The arrival of the RN [the far right “National Rally”, formerly the National Front] in government in France would be a major asset for Putin, would play into […]
If you eat toast for breakfast, you will now be crazy about Joe Biden because that’s what he appears to be: toast. And stale toast with no butter or jelly at that. […]
Donald Trump has an unrecognized political action committee (PAC). It is the MAGA judges from judge Aileen Cannon in Florida, who is presiding over the stolen classified documents case, to the Supreme […]
By Yorgos Mitralias When, just after the announcement of the results of the European elections, French President Macron surprised everyone by deciding to dissolve the Parliament and to call general elections for June 30, […]
Here is the concluding part of my series on why Marxism opposes individual terrorism. In this part, we talk about the dead end of alternative to individual terrorism. That alternative is international, […]
Third part in a 4 part series on why Marxism opposes individual terrorism. In this part we discuss how and why that strategy came to dominate in Palestine, how the PLO and […]
The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign was the only ones to warn against the tendency of Western governments to be willing to trade Ukrainian land for “peace” with Russia at the recent Swiss […]
Indian ethno-nationalist Narendra Modi received a bit of a setback in the recent election in that country. Here, Oaklandsocialist talked with Indian socialist and campaigner for democratic rights, Kavita Krishnan, about those […]
Here is a short video of my time visiting the Palestine encampment at UC Santa Barbara
