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 […]
Video: “Left” fascism past and present
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.
Republicans on Supreme Court join Team Trump; Democrats silent
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 […]
Video: The REAL reason for Biden’s reluctance to fully arm Ukraine
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 […]
Statement On Second Anniversary Of Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
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 […]
Trying to understand the genocidal drift of Israeli society!
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 […]
Video: The real Republicans
CNN interviewed some nice, middle class, white Republican ladies in S. Carolina. But what do they really represent?
Video: Seize Russian & Ukrainian lligarchs’ REAL assets!
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.
Discussion with DSA activist
I had a text message exchange with a member of East Bay DSA who had contacted me to try to get me to campaign for Jovanka Beckles, yet another liberal Democrat they […]
Review of forum on the “new labor movement”
On Saturday, Feb. 3, the administrators of a Marxist email list called “Marxmail” put on a forum called “the new US labor movement”. Speakers were Bill Fletcher jr., former official of […]
U.S. election perspectives update
It is increasingly looking like the next presidential election will be a repeat of the 2020 matchup of Biden vs. Trump. A serious argument can be made that Biden’s support for Israel’s […]