I was asked about the call for a general strike. Here are my thoughts: A general strike doesn’t happen because a few hundred or even a few thousand people want it; it […]
Stopping Trump: A general strike or…?
“Hands Off” protest in Oakland – video & photos
About 5,000 turned out in Oakland for the April 5 “Hands Off” protest. Here is a short video and some of the photos I took. The posters people made up give a […]
Construction workers discuss the coming tariffs
A construction worker in Eastern United States that we know reports the following conversation he had with some fellow workers about the effect of Trump’s coming tariffs. We also discuss the economic […]
Trumpism as the Nazism of our time!
An apt comparison Trumpism as the Nazism of our time! By Yorgos Mitralias (Introduction: There is serious discussion on whether the United States is now fascist. Nobody can make a serious case […]
Video: Thousands protest Tesla in Berkeley
The anger at the Trump/Vande/Musk triumvirate is focusing on Elon Musk and his DOGE. Here is a video from the protest at Tesla on Sunday, March 29, in Berkeley.
“I might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but at least I’m a tool!”
Almost all those who are not completely absorbed into the Trump/MAGA cult have been shocked at the amazing carelessness/light mindedness at best, and utter stupidity at worst, of the Signal, chat group […]
Video: Trump for foreigners
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 […]
The Trump presidency: four years of chaos and corruption “won’t work”, not even for the capitalists!
“Four years of this won’t work, folks.” So spoke Thomas Friedman, prominent conservative New York Times columnist and strategist for/representative of the U.S. capitalist class in a recent column of his entitled […]
Syrian People: Beware of Medea Benjamin!
To the people of Syria who fought so long and so hard and sacrificed so much to overthrow the criminal Assad dictatorship: As supporters of the Syrian revolution, we wish to advise […]
The Trump/Vance/Musk Triumvirate, Part 2
In the first part of this series we showed how the Silicon Valley venture capitalists had led their class in taking over the MAGA movement and Trump’s second presidency. We showed how […]