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 […]
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Answer to a question from a young comrade
“Do you have some book recommendations for books you think everyone should read at least once?” asked a young comrade of mine. Here is my answer: First of all, please bear with […]
Russia and the Baltic states
Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: We were at the May Day rally in Berlin. (Video and photos coming.) We talked with a number of groups there, all of whom defended Putin’s invasion of Ukraine […]
Opposing Trump: It’s more complex than it might appear!
Introduction: In the first part of this series we discussed why a nearly exclusively focus on economics is inadequate to oppose Trump and MAGA. Economic self interest is vitally important, but as […]
Opposing Trump & MAGA: “not by bread alone”, Part 1
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 […]
Internationalism in action as an antidote to the nationalist poison of resurgent fascism!
By Yorgos Mitralias ‘The second story relates to the Wilna ghetto. Until its extermination, some of the men were taken out of the ghetto to work in an arms factory. The director […]
A day in court
I spent an interesting half-day in court the other day. The court was holding bail hearings for a series of defendants. Every single, one of the defendants, with only one exception, was […]
Stopping Trump: A general strike or…?
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 […]
Divisions in the Iranian regime: Is a renewed revolution next?
Reprinted with permission of the author, who also publishes the web site The Fire Next time.net. Here Siyâvash discusses the developing divisions within the regime of the Islamic State of Iran. Such […]
Reform UK and the Conservatives will probably win the next UK election
(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 […]