Under pressure, the Peralta Community College Board of Trustees voted against negotiating with the A’s over privatizing Peralta land for the A’s new stadium. Yet few at Laney Community College trusts the […]
Battle of A’s Stadium, Round II
Alabama: “We are seeing a chipping away at the image”
“I think nationally, people should take heart in the fact that Alabama and the South at large isn’t as backwards as it’s always seemed to be. Yes, racism, bigotry, sexism – all […]
Trump the Bonapartist?
Here’s a fascinating article on how Trump spends his day. In a personalized form it shows the two forces that are at work in the White House: One is the right […]
Privatization scheme killed; shows power of working class
On Tuesday, Dec. 5, the Board of Trustees of the Peralta Community College District voted to kill the proposal to build a stadium for the Oakland A’s baseball team on Peralta […]
Africa
We republish here a document on Africa from the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency. We do not vouch for their political perspective, but we think that there is a lot of valuable information […]
The American Revolution
Here is a discussion that Oakland Socialist had about the forces at work in the American Revolution.
Working class solidarity and the struggle in Syria
I was honored to have been asked by the Alliance of Mid East Socialists to make a presentation on a panel they organized at the Left Forum in Los Angeles on Nov. […]
One mass shooting every 24.7 days: Why?
The liberals and the conservatives have their stock “solutions”. For the liberals, stopping terrorist random shootings is a matter of more gun control, especially of assault weapons. These same liberals, however, can […]
2017 Election Results
The DSA leadership is exuberant about the results of the November, 2017 elections, as is the Democratic Party in general. DSA is boasting about the successful election campaigns of fifteen DSA members. These […]
Three different kinds of journalism
A video from Oaklandsocialist on three different kinds of reporting: capitalist journalists, left radical journalists and journalists who are also participants in the movement itself.