We talked with long time socialist , New York City subway worker and union fighter, John Ferretti, about why he’s supporting Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor. Here is an edited […]
Oaklandsocialist podcast: interview with John Ferretti on Zohran Momdani for New York City mayor. Find it on Oaklandsocialist podcasts here.
Here are some photos plus a short video of the “No Kings” protest in Oakland yesterday. I mix in photos that give an idea of crowd size (estimated at 10,000) with photos […]
The bulk of this article was written before the spectacular breakup of the Trump/Musk bromance. That breakup is partly a product of two narcissistic megalomaniacs clashing. Musk’s opposition to the “Big Beautiful […]
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Here is Part 2 of my interview with Trevor Ngwane. In this interview, he talks about left and right wing populism in South Africa and some other points about current politics in […]
by Richard Johnson The UK’s left is changing while the far right are making gains The 1st May election results have landed like a bombshell on British politics confirming that the […]
A movement against Trump is starting to develop. This coincides with the general decline in his support as seen in the opinion polls. The question is what general direction such a movement […]
(Oaklandsocialist notes: “Reform UK” is a far right party started by Nigel Farage, who has visited with Trump. Farage was one of the engineers of Brexit. As we can see, Trump’s victory […]
I was honored to be invited to participate in a Zoom panel at this conference in Milan, of the Italian group “Left for Ukraine”. Here is a video of my presentation and […]
