Three days after Trump’s racist tweets and the day after he set of fascistic “send her back” chants at his rally in Greenville, the AFL-CIO was silent on the issue. So was […]
Trump’s racist tweets show where he’s headed in the coming electon
Epstein arrest: a means of getting at Trump?
The procurer of young girls for the rich and famous – Jeffrey Epstein – has been arrested in New York. He had previously been convicted of similar crimes in Florida. In that […]
Census Drama and Trump’s Strategy
With the concentration camps on the US border, the growing planet climate/environment emergency, the attacks on a woman’s right to make her own reproductive decisions, and the possibility of war with Iran […]
#Jewishresistance in San Francisco protest of concentration camps
Video of July 5 protest by some 200+ people – mainly but not entirely Jewish youth – against Trump’s concentration camps at the US/Mexican border. They were protesting the camps as well […]
Trump postpones war abroad in favor of war at home
Trump is trying to postpone the war abroad (against Iran) in favor of fighting the war at home. He backed down at the last minute as far as a military attack on […]
Trump, “treason”, and bourgeois democracy
On June 20, the Wall St. Journal republished a column from the publisher of the NY Times, A.G. Sulzberger. The column was sharply critical of Trump. Normally, these two publishers are at […]
New Crisis in Gulf of Oman: What really happened? Where is it headed?
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 […]
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 and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new
Socialists, and Marxists in particular, are often slow to fully see it when a sharp turn in the situation develops. Is that what’s happening now? Does Trump’s election represent a wide-scale loss […]