INTRODUCTION On November 29, after nearly a week of ballot recounts, Uruguay’s election authority recognized Luis Lacalle Pou, the candidate of the right-wing National Party, as the country’s next president following the second round of elections on November 24. Although the result was close, with Lacalle Pou winning over the […]
When socialists look at the situation in a country, one of the first questions we ask is what is the balance of class forces? Where does the struggle between the employers and the working class stand? This article will attempt to answer that question. Unemployment The October unemployment figure was […]
INTRODUCTION What began in October as a student protest over an increase in subway fares turned into a Chile-wide revolt of millions. On October 25, 1.5 million—in a country of 18 million—filled the main boulevards of Santiago, the capital, to demand a change in the political and social system inherited […]
The Meidner Plan wasn’t a path to socialism. It wasn’t even an advance in workers’ rights within capitalism. It was a defeat for workers and an attack on their power to organise.
Evo Morales’s attack on his own social base opened up the space for the right wing to intervene in Bolivia.
The Arab regime is immersed in a long-term revolutionary process that pits youth-led movements against authoritarian rulers and neoliberal capitalism explains Gilbert Achcar, in an interview that first appeared in ROAR magazine on November 8. When in late 2018 the people of Sudan took to the streets demanding an end […]
The example of Max Shachtman and the Workers Party (WP) is an instructive example of how committed revolutionaries can be coopted by the Democratic Party. The Workers’ Party, founded in 1940 as a split away from the Socialist Workers’ Party, evolved from an organization strictly opposed to the Democratic Party […]
This article first appeared as a document in ISO preconvention bulletin #43, February, 2019. It more or less accurately predicts that the then-current trajectory of the ISO could lead to its liquidation into the DSA/Democratic Party. Though the ISO collapsed before this outcome came about, a month after this article was […]
THE THANKSGIVING myth is intertwined with this country’s origin myth. Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 in search of freedom. Indians helped them plant corn and survive. They made a compact that is the basis of our first constitution, and they held a feast, […]
We live in a time of peril and promise. The crises that face our world can seem overwhelming. An impending climate catastrophe. A global emergency of refugee displacement and migration. Wars rendering whole countries unlivable. The imposition of vicious austerity measures that have robbed working people of their rights and […]
Lance Selfa and Paul D’Amato, in a response to an article by Paul Le Blanc, offer their analysis of why the ISO dissolved after more than 40 years. The passage of time has a way of clarifying issues that seemed so fraught and confusing in the heat of the moment. […]
Sharon Smith analyses the causes and consequences of the collapse of the International Socialist Organization in 2019.
Antonis Davanellos is a leading member of the Greek socialist organization International Workers’ Left (DEA). DEA had close, collaborative relations with the ISO until the latter’s disollution. Davanellos wrote the following assessment not long after the ISO’s final national convention held in February 2019, which he attended as an invited […]
“Although we are in essential agreement with Marx’s theory as it applied to the very specific economic relationships he analyzed, we know that his analysis must be extended further in order for us to understand our specific economic situation as Black women.” —the Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 1 “The […]
Us history is full of examples of how revolutionaries abandoned their project and dissolved into reformist organizations. Max Shachtman’s Workers’ Party is one historical example.
