A valuable contribution from Michael Roberts. It might sound a bit technical or abstract, but it is relevant to the Democratic Party debate the other night. What Roberts takes apart here is […]
Capital not ideology
Perfidious Trump throws Kurds to Erdogan and Assad
Marcus Halaby writes from London: Introduction All socialists and democrats should support the Kurdish resistance to the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, and the remaining revolutionary-democratic forces struggling against Assad’s reactionary dictatorship. […]
Third Democratic Party debate
The most important thing about last night’s Democratic Party debate was that Tulsi Gabbard emerged as a truly dangerous figure. More about that below. Here are some comments on some of the […]
Preparing for Revolution
Note: The document below was written and produced by the Workers International Network in 2009. It tries to lay out the main processes in the world. Much has changed since then, of […]
Unbalanced Trump a crisis for US capitalism
Like a spoiled six-year old having a temper tantrum, Trump is flailing about and out of control. How can they keep any semblance of stability, how maintain respect by foreign forces as […]
PG&E electricity shutdown in California
Oh, the horror of it! The absolute scandal unfolding as over 100,000 Californians are having to go without electricity for several days. Restaurants are having to close and some school children […]
Erdogan, the Kurds and Trump’s real “betrayal”
The invasion of NE Syria by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is now under way. This is an invasion that is planned to be ten miles into that part of Syria. It […]
A dream or reality?
Last night, I dreamed I was in a plane that had flown into a box canyon. I looked out the window on my side and saw the rocky canyon walls slowly passing […]
Trump responds to impeachment: “The best defense is a good offense”
You didn’t have to be Machiavelli or Karl Marx to know that Trump would defend himself by going on the offense. The key to understanding his offensive lies in the speech he […]
Oakland A’s and the state of the class struggle in Oakland
Last year, Oaklandsocialist reported on the A’s previous attempt to take over Laney Community College by building a stadium on their property a year ago. Defeated there, they went to Plan B, […]