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Dear Friends, Comrades, and Supporters,
The horrors of the siege on Gaza continue with over 21,000 Palestinians dead. Biden and both corporate political parties approve hundreds of billions of dollars on military spending for capitalist wars, including the assault on Gaza, while most working people face increasingly precarious living conditions. Homelessness rose 12% to hit a record high in 2023, with many people struggling with huge rent increases. The government’s minimal COVID aid for workers and partial eviction moratoriums are over. A poll of over 900 companies revealed “mass layoffs are in store for 2024.” The median savings for Americans is just $5,300, according to the Federal Reserve. The high cost of living, low wages, and skyrocketing debt have hit working people hard. 62% of workers in the U.S. live paycheck to paycheck.
In 2024, the corporate Democratic Party will once again try to bully working-class people into voting for their pro-capitalist policies and candidate—Biden—as the “lesser-evil” to Trump and the Republicans. Without a workers’ party or growing socialist movement with roots in the working class, the corporate political parties in the U.S. will continue to shift right, and far-right populists will make gains.
Capitalism offers no solutions to its social and political crises and the destruction of the environment. It can’t win a lasting ceasefire or freedom for Palestinians, or end ethnic cleansing, nationalism, racism, poverty, and wars. In fact, these help the capitalist system maintain power. Only socialism, fought for and organized by working-class people, can win peace, rights, and economic security for all.
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In 2023, the Independent Socialist Group’s organizing included:
Protesting the
War on Gaza
ISG organized and participated in protests and standouts to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to US military aid to Israel.
Solidarity Committees to Support UPS Teamsters
& Support For Amazon Teamsters
We initiated solidarity committees in four cities to connect the major labor struggles of the Teamsters at UPS to the wider working class in our communities. This activity included public meetings, information tables, and standouts at busy intersections.
We joined Teamster pickets and rallies at nonunion Amazon locations in New England.
UAW Picket Line Support
& Solidarity Meetings
We also organized standouts, information tables, public meetings, and picket line visits in support of the United Auto Workers strike against the “Big 3” automakers Ford, GM, and Stellantis.
Solidarity & Activism
in the Massachusetts
Teachers Association
We organized within the Wellesley Educators Association for a strong contract battle to win a good contract, helping to organize rallies attended by hundreds.
ISG members put forward resolutions and tactics at statewide meetings to win the right to strike, to win higher starting salaries (especially for paraprofessionals, who often make less than $30k/yr), and to mobilize the 115,000 union members across 400 locals in a united statewide fight.
We called for an end to financial and electoral support of both the Democratic and Republican parties and for the MTA to organize active solidarity with other unions such as the Teamsters in their UPS contract campaign.
Organizing in Railroad Workers United
ISG members helped to organize the New England chapter of Railroad Workers United (RWU). We actively support the RWU demands for public ownership of the railroads, for safe staffing, and for improved maintenance and service.
At a community meeting in Pennsylvania, we joined others to speak out against the East Palestine derailment and the ongoing crisis in the rail industry.
Organizing Baristas
in Maine
An ISG member helped lead her coworkers to unionize their workplace, Coffee by Design, in Portland, ME.
50 Years Since US-Backed Coup Overthrows Socialist Government in Chile
We invited Hugo Rodriguez, a member of the Committee for a Worker’s International (CWI), to visit the US to speak on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 US-backed coup in Chile. He shared his experiences living under the socialist Allende government and his later years as an activist working underground during the Pinochet dictatorship.
Student Organizing
ISG student members continue to build support for socialism on campuses. Members run socialist study groups. We organized public meetings about socialism, the war against Gaza, and many other topics. We helped organize and participated in solidarity actions with graduate students organizing unions and campus workers fighting for union rights and contracts.
Socialist Media
We published seven more issues of our paper Socialism Today and produced countless leaflets, pamphlets, posters, and other material to distribute.
ISG is working to build a nationwide socialist organization. We also stand in political solidarity with the Committee for a Workers International (CWI). The struggle for international socialism continues in 2024. All our political work includes discussing socialist ideas, working class history, and how we can organize for socialism with as many working-class people as possible.
Your donations help us print newspapers, posters, banners, and leaflets; rent meeting spaces; and to send organizers to new areas. We also want to raise money to rent office space, purchase equipment to produce more material, publish new books, and fund full-time organizers.
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