On June 24, some 250 socialists, overwhelmingly young, gathered in the offices of the nurses’ union in Oakland CA. They gathered to elect new officers and delegates from the East Bay chapter […]
This spring marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution – an event that shocked the entire world and changed it forever. Today, as turmoil and chaos, the threat of war, revolution […]
Oaklandsocialist reproduces here the statement of purpose of the Alliance of Iranian and Syrian Socialists. We don’t know much about this alliance, but we think this statement offers a valuable contribution to […]
Glenn Greenwald, the influential “left” journalist at “The Intercept” has written a confused and in some ways dishonest article on Trump’s latest attack on Syria. Of course, Greenwald is right to denounce […]
The world situation is much worse than the liberals and some socialists think. We saw this through a recent meeting of the socialist “Peace and Freedom Party” featuring a speaker who is […]
“The Only position that PFP (Peace and Freedom Party) has Re Syria is that we oppose any and all US/ Nato Intervention….” So wrote a prominent member of the Peace and Freedom […]
Much of the left in the US is basically taking the same position that Donald Trump is taking regarding Syria. As the New York Times reports: Trump’s position is “that the United […]
Yesterday (Dec. 17), we had a chance to debate with an apologist for Putin/Assad (and Iran’s Rouhani and their client, Hezbollah) on WRFU’s World Labor Hour. (Hear it here, starting at about 60 […]
The open support for liberal Democrat Bernie Sanders by Socialist Alternative provoked a debate within that group back in the first part of 2016. In response, the leadership of Socialist Alternative sent […]
