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.
Russia’s fascist connected Putin is creating great confusion within the left, including the socialist left. He and his agents and assets (both conscious and otherwise) are drawing significant numbers of lefts, including […]
Here is the second part in my slideshow series on the Putinized left. This short slideshow is on how this “left” came to support a counter revolution in Syria. This same Putinized […]
Here is an analysis of the UN report on allegations of rape allegations and how some on the left have responded to that report: We all know that the Israeli regime ranks […]
Fascist connected Putin has gathered into his orbit a layer of “lefts”. In order to understand what is happening, we have to go back 100 years and look at the “left” wing […]
The Supreme Court majority has placed the court onto the Committee to Elect Donald Trump. There’s no other way of seeing it. Not only that, but they’ve done it with the complicity […]
Even before the QAnon Republicans’ holdup, in my opinion, there is a lot of misunderstanding of why Biden has been so slow in providing all the arms to Ukraine that it needs […]
The European Network in Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) has published the following statement on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Oaklandsocialist supports this statement and urges groups and individual to […]
By Yorgos Mitralias The methodical extermination of the Palestinian people, which the Israeli army has been successfully carrying out for the past four months, does not fall from the sky, and would not […]
CNN interviewed some nice, middle class, white Republican ladies in S. Carolina. But what do they really represent?
As the QAnon Republicans refuse to allow aid to Ukraine, billions of dollars of assets of Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs can and should be seized for that aid.
