On Thursday, June 13 two oil tankers, one operated by a Japanese company and the other by a Norwegian shipping company, were attacked in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of […]
New Crisis in Gulf of Oman: What really happened? Where is it headed?
Letter from US workers to workers in Iran
Note: The following is an open letter to our fellow workers in Iran. We hope this will be a first step in organizing direct links between workers in our two countries. If […]
Reminder: Livestream event Saturday – the state of the revolutions in Algeria & Sudan
Sponsored by the Alliance of Middle East Socialist. From this link: Saturday, June 1 – the current state of the revolutions in Algeria and Sudan. Join us in a livestream facebook event […]
US and Iran: Coming even closer to war?
Although far from certain, it is increasingly difficult to see how a Trump war against Iran can be avoided. Trump might not want it, because he knows such a war is likely […]
Escalating Threat of War: Is there a way out?
This is the second of two articles on the developing crisis in the Persian Gulf. In the first article, Oaklandsocialist discussed the internal dynamics within the Trump administration. Here, we republish a […]
US war on Iran coming?
Late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, some sort of bombing attack was carried out on several ships in the Straits of Hormuz, near Iran. Several ships, including the Andrea Victory, were […]
Trump elected Israeli Prime Minister
Donald Trump (AKA Benjamin Netanyahu) will apparently serve an unprecedented fifth term as Israel’s prime minister. Netanyahu, whose similarities to Trump are striking – right down to the criminal charges against him […]
CodePink replies
Oaklakdsocialist had published an open letter to Code Pink taking issue with their delegation to Iran, one which would have been used as a cover for the regime there. This approach by […]
Letter from Radical Women and Reply from Codepink
Last December, we published an open letter to Codepink about their planned “peace caravan” to Iran. Without giving the slightest support to US capitalism’s threats and attacks against Iran, we criticized this […]
Iran Labor Leader Speaks of Torture in Prison
Reprinted from Alliance of Middle East Socialists. This is confirmation of our criticism of CodePink’s “Peace Caravan” to Iran. See the Open Letter to CodePink. Jan 7, 2019 Esmail Bakshi, leader of the […]