The official figures, liberals and conservatives alike, are shocked – shocked I tell you! – at the reaction to the assassination of Brian Thompson. (My personal favorite is “why all this hoopla […]
Kieran Knutson and Cliff Willmeng are long time fighters for working class people and all the oppressed. They are also anti-capitalists who both live in Minneapolis and are running for […]
I remember back in the 1980s sometime when a campaign for health care reform was first getting underway. At that time, the slogan was for “socialized medicine”. I remember we were meeting […]
The State of California is suing Sutter Health Care for price fixing. The statistics behind the suit show that, while “Medicare for all” would be a positive step, what’s really needed is […]
Counterpunch has an article about Bernie Sanders new single payer bill. They claim that the reasons that many Democrats are signing on to it is due to pressure from the people plus […]
On Sept. 16, socialist Seattle city council member Kshama Sawant, Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) member and candidate for California Lt. Governor Gayle McLaughlin, and East Bay DSA member Jeremy Gong spoke at […]
Here is a recording of a radio show Oakland Socialist did on WRFU where we discussed the health care crisis in the US. It explains and discusses why: The Democratic Party will not […]
When California’s “single payer” health care bill fizzled and died like a dud fire cracker, its rank and file supporters might have been surprised. Not so for Karen Bernal, though. Chair of […]
Liberal icon Congresswoman Barbara Lee held a town hall meeting in Oakland on Saturday morning (Feb. 18). The focus of the meeting was to “defend and improve” the Affordable Care Act, or […]
Multicare is a privately owned “non-profit” that owns and operates a chain of hospitals and clinics throughout the Pacific Northwest, among them Tacoma General Hospital. Many of the workers for Multicare are represented […]
