Introduction: “Frank” is a well-paid white worker and a socialist who lives in a largely white neighborhood in a major East Coast city. In his life, he gets around and talks with […]
How violent can MAGA get?
Rising conflicts within Trump coalition: Preview of what’s to come
The wheels have not fallen off the MAGA bus yet, but the lug nuts are coming loose. Last Sunday, Dec. 22, Oaklandsocialist published an article (Can Trump institute fascism?) which analyzed the […]
Can Trump institute fascism?
The Republicans’ recent budget fiasco, plus one or two other developments, including developments on the labor front, reveal a lot about fissures and conflicts that already exist within the Trump camp and […]
Trump receives setbacks
There is an ancient Greek myth about two monsters, Scylla and Charybdis, who sat on either side of a narrow passage of water. Sailors had to make sure that in avoiding one […]
The coming Trump regime: Chaos and repression – Part 2
Introduction This is the second part of a two part series on the perspectives for the coming Trump regime. In Part One we discussed Some of Trump’s major appointments and their significance. […]
U.S. voters usher in full-fledged authoritarianism and bigotry
“They are frightened, confused and lonely.” That’s how the worker who reported on the racist and misogynistic and nationalist comments in Oaklandsocialist’s previous post described the mood among tens of millions of […]
World War or World Revolution?
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: Just a week ago, we published a pamphlet on the nature of this period. We somewhat tentatively concluded that, after alternating waves of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary periods, it seems […]
The nature of this period: An Oaklandsocialist pamphlet
“We could be living in a year in which authoritarians take or keep power in nations across Europe, Latin America and in the U.S., while Putin continues to make advances in Ukraine […]
MAGA Supreme Court drops the pretense
Supreme Court Chief (in)Justice John Roberts has dropped the pretense. Until now, he tried to maintain a degree of credibility that the Supreme Court was apolitical and non-partisan, that its decisions were […]
Even if it avoids civil war, Israel’s final crisis looks cataclysmic!
by Yorgos Mitralias In July 2021, commenting on Albert Einstein’s prophetic warnings of Israel’s disastrous future as early as 1948, we concluded our text with the following observation and, at the same […]