We are the Wayne State Chapter of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Facebook page)

We meet every Monday evening in the General Lectures building. The IYSSE at Wayne State University is also the youth wing of the Detroit Workers Action Committee (DWAC), which holds a program to organize neighborhoods, schools, factories and workplaces against the bankruptcy of Detroit and the continual social counterrevolution being waged against students and workers.

• “War means the people are losing” – Wayne State University students and workers speak out against war

• Support grows for SEP meeting Tuesday against Detroit water shutoffs

• “We have a war going on in our own country” – Detroit meeting discusses city’s bankruptcy and police violence in Ferguson

• Workers Inquiry examines political conspiracy behind Detroit bankruptcy

• The reality behind the “comeback” of Detroit – At Detroit Auto Show, workers denounce bankruptcy, attacks on wages and pensions

• SEP and IYSSE hold meeting at Wayne State in Detroit to discuss campaign for Workers Inquiry

• SEP and IYSSE hold demonstration in Detroit against war in Syria

• Detroit students speak out against Syria war drive

• Video: Students speak against war at Wayne State University demonstration

• D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for Detroit mayor, speaks on the social crisis in Detroit

IYSSE meetings consist of one part current political discussion, one part theoretical discussion, and one part activities discussion. Our meetings are themed, so the theoretical discussion connects to current events. We welcome suggestions for readings, topics, and discussions.

The IYSSE holds information tables in the Student Center for weekly public political discourse. These tables are high traffic and keep political issues at the forefront of the campus thought. We invite all interested parties to stop by and participate in these sessions, whether it be actively handing out articles or meeting invitations, or discussing political and theoretical conceptions.

We host public meetings regularly, inviting speakers to bring a Marxist perspective to campus.

Previous Events:
–Rape of Europa – movie screening, concerning the historical continuity of the arts
–Tsar to Lenin – movie screening, concerning the February and October Revolutions of 1917 and the formation of the U.S.S.R
-15 Years of the World Socialist Web Site – full day forum, lectures on the comparison between 1898-1913 and 1998-2013
-No to the War in Syria! – protest, held to give voice to overwhelming anti-war sentiment
-Defend the Detroit Institute of Arts! – protest, held in defense of culture as a social right for the working class
-Workers Inquiry into the Bankruptcy of Detroit and the Attack on the DIA and Pensions – full day forum, 5 lectures concerning the different dimensions of the Detroit bankruptcy, which is a major turning point in the bypassing of legality

-In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks: War, Dictatorship and Anti-Muslim Racism – a discussion on the immediate use of militarized police action against free speech across Europe and the warnings held for the working class

–Art, Socialism, and the Working Class – WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh will speak on his new book Sky Between the Leaves
–The Unfinished 20th Century: the Philosophy and Politics of Historical Revisionism – Speaker David North, from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, speaks on the IYSSE and ICFI’s defense of Trotsky and the academic trend aiming to rehabilitate Hitler and Nazism
–Rally against the Water Shutoffs – Thursday, July 24, 2014

Articles on IYSSE campaigns and meetings

The IYSSE defends the Enlightenment, democratic rights, and scientific reasoning. We aim to spread class consciousness and arm students and youth with a socialist program to restructure society.

To contact us, please visit our Facebook page, or email issewayne@gmail.com