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Socialism 2017: Build the Left, Fight the Right
Join the ISO, July 6-9, in Chicago, for Socialism 2017, a four-day conference aimed at bringing the politics necessary to build the left and fight the right to a new generation of socialists. Visit the Socialism 2017 website to register for the conference, and get info about our student and early-bird discounts, free on-site childcare, and the latest updates about speakers and talks.
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Why you should defend abortion rights and Planned Parenthood
Jen Roesch on why you should defend abortion rights and Planned Parenthood—in a debate in New York City with an anti-choice activist. Watch a full playlist of videos from the day’s events here.
The Anti-Inauguration: Building Resistance in the Trump Era
On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017, over a thousand people gathered at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington DC to hear Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Anand Gopal, Owen Jones, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor speak on what resistance should look like in the age of Trump and what kind of positive program we should be fighting for. An ebook of the speeches from this event is available for free here. The event was sponsored by Verso Books, Haymarket Books, and Jacobin Magazine.
From KXL to DAPL: The Fight for Indigenous Rights
Also read—“The Challenge at Standing Rock”—by Sara Rougeau, Ragina Johnson, and Brian Ward, at SocialistWorker.org.
ISO news
Stand up for the victims of racist hate
In the face of renewed and spreading harassment and violence, the International Socialist Organization appeals in this statement for a large and united resistance against the far right .
WHEN RIGHT-WING thugs feel free to harass and murder, and a leading voice of the U.S. left faces racist death threats, the need for solidarity and activism against the far right could not be more urgent. The ISO appeals to left-wing, labor and anti-racist organizations of all currents to unite and take mass action against this surge of right-wing violence and fascist organization. Only by confronting these elements can we expose their real agenda of oppressing the vulnerable and destroying democracy. They will not go away if we ignore them. On the contrary, they will use every opportunity to advance--which means more racism, more murder, more terror.
July issue of Socialist Worker out now
The July issue of Socialist Worker is out now and available from ISO branches around the country.
The front cover headline is “Fight the right. build the left,” the theme of the Socialism 2017 conference. Articles include an editorial on “A new left is being built today” and features on “What strategies will stop the far right?” and “How Portland stood united against hate."
Featured on the back page is the case of political prisoner Claudia Rueda, freed from detention by ICE in Los Angeles, as well as an article about protests calling for justice for Minnesota...Read more
Building solidarity, not walls, on May Day
The demonstrations and strikes on this year's May Day can be a step toward building the networks we need to resist Donald Trump's attack on immigrants and workers. Below we republish Socialist Worker's May Day editorial, as well as a report by SW editor Alan Maass on what the resistance looked like across the U.S. and beyond.Read more
U.S. missiles won’t liberate the Syrian people
Anyone who cares about justice and peace needs to mobilize against the U.S. government's new escalation of the bloodshed and repression in the Middle East. Below is a special editorial (PDF) by Socialist Worker—the newspaper of the International Socialist Organization—condemning Trump’s cruise missile attack on Syria and calling for resistance to his escalation of the U.S. war in Syria.
April 8, 2017The Trump administration's April 7 missile strike targeting the Shayrat Syrian Arab Air Force base in Syria is a frightening escalation of a six-year-old conflict that has already had catastrophic consequences for the Syrian people.
Trump said the decision to launch 59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles was in retaliation for the April 4 Sarin gas attack in Idlib province, carried out by the Bashar al-Assad regime, that killed scores of civilians and left hundreds sickened. "I will tell you that attack on children had a big impact on me," Trump said. "My attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much."
But this claimed concern about civilian casualties is nothing but rank hypocrisy coming from Trump.Read more
Upcoming meetings and demonstrations
March 30 No Ban! No Wall! The Socialist Case for a World Without Borders — Loyola University
6:30pm-8:30pm Dumbach 227, Loyola University Chicago RSVP on Facebook Join the Loyola Socialists for a public forum and discussion on the politics of immigration.
Trump's War on the Working Class: Healthcare, Cuts, Austerity — Columbia University8pm-10pm Barnard College / Columbia University New York, NY 10031 ...Read more
Resistance and Reaction in the Age of Trump—International Socialist Review Issue #104 is now out!
Issue #104 of the International Socialist Review is now out! The ISR is offering new subscribers a 50% discount off their normal rate. Enter discount code “DUMPTRUMP” at checkout to take advantage of this offer.
Below we are publishing the new issue’s editorial—“Resistance and reaction in the age of Trump.” Visit the ISR’s website today to subscribe and view other newly released articles.
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Resistance and Reaction in the Age of TrumpUS politics in the past months has experienced, to quote the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, “an abrupt turn in the objective situation.”
Very few of us on the left expected that the next president of the United States would be a corrupt, narcissistic billionaire swindler, an open sexist and self-confessed serial abuser, and a man the Far Right hails for his open racism and nationalist xenophobia. Donald Trump successfully positioned himself as a right-wing populist, anti-establishment candidate who would tear up free trade, deport immigrant “job-stealers,” and restore good jobs for “real” Americans.Read more
Recently at Socialist Worker
News and opinion published by the ISO—monthly in print and daily on the Web at SocialistWorker.org.
Friday, July 14th
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Analysis: Eric Ruder
The U.S. destroys Mosul in order to not save it
The U.S.-led drive to eradicate ISIS forces in Mosul has succeeded--but at a terrible price to the people who live in what was once Iraq's second-largest city.
A stealth legislative assault on immigrants
Celebrating Combahee's 40th birthday
Germany's not-so-great reunifier
Views in brief
Thursday, July 13th
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Analysis: John Monroe
The start of Turkey's hot summer?
A rally by as many as 2 million people in Istanbul is the latest sign that Turkey's discontent can't be crushed out by the regime's crackdown.
On the picket line with the Tufts nurses
Being honest about Venezuela
San Diego stands with Nabra
Wednesday, July 12th
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Speech: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The speech the racists didn't want you to hear
Faced with death threats, a left-wing author had to cancel an appearance in Seattle--but she gave the speech you couldn't hear then at Socialism 2017.
Why Socialism was a big deal
Morocco takes to the streets
How to get mentally tough like the filthy rich
Wednesday, July 5th
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Editorials
A new left for the future--and the here and now
For the first time in decades, the left has a chance to become a force in the U.S. This weekend's Socialism conference is a place to discuss how.
What's the agenda behind Trumponomics?
The right can't stand our vision of democracy
Monuments to white supremacy
Gaza reels from electricity cuts
Tuesday, July 4th
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Comment: Todd Chretien
Which train goes to socialism?
Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara proposes that the future of the left may lie with a return to Finland Station, circa 1917. But how are we going to get there?
Single-payer got close so the Democrats killed it
Every cook can govern
Fighting for trans civil rights in Rochester
Trump retrocede con Cuba
Monday, July 3rd
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Comment: Eric Ruder
What strategies will stop the far right?
Since Trump's election, the far right has become more aggressive than at any time in the last 25 years. An organized response is urgently needed.
We defended left-wing speech at Syracuse
Berkeley doesn't need Urban Shield
What can turn the teachers' union around?
La migra detiene más activistas
Featured at the International Socialist Review
Trump's victory and the necessity of solidarity
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016), and assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. The widely-acclaimed book surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality, arguing that this struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation. Activist and scholar Cornel West called her book “the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment.” The movement, which emerged under the first African-American president, faces a new situation with the election of an openly racist and xenophobic president, Donald Trump. Ashley Smith interviewed her in late November to discuss the legacy of the Obama era and the prospects for struggle under these new unexpected circumstances.Read more