Manifesto: International Socialist Organization
Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by Joe Richard in Community
The International Socialist Organization (ISO) is committed to building an organization that participates in the struggles for justice, liberation and ultimately for a future socialist society.
The ISO has branches across the country whose members are involved in helping to fight in a number of struggles: the movement to stop war and occupation, fights against racism and anti-immigrant scapegoating, the struggle for women’s rights like the right to reproductive choice, opposition to anti-gay bigotry, and standing up for workers’ rights.
ISO believes that the misery of millions of people around the world is rooted in our society that runs on a system of capitalism, where the few who rule profit from the labor of the vast majority.
In the U.S., a tiny portion of the population enjoys fantastic wealth, while millions of people live in desperate poverty and many more live paycheck to paycheck. Yet we have the resources to feed, clothe and educate everyone on the planet.
We believe that a world free of exploitation — socialism — is not only possible but worth fighting for. The ISO stands by the tradition of revolutionary socialists Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky in the belief that workers themselves, those who compose the vast majority of the population, are the only force that can lead the fight to win a socialist society. Socialism can’t be brought about from above; it has to be won by workers themselves.
The Democratic Party, much like the Republicans, acts in the interests of Corporate America and the privileged few at the top. Therefore, we do not support their candidates.
We see our task as building an independent socialist organization with members organizing in our workplaces, our schools and our neighborhoods to bring socialist ideas to the struggles we are involved in today and the vision of a socialist world in the future.
If you’re interested, send us an email at , find us on Facebook, or look regularly for our literature table on the Plaza of the Americas.
