by Samuel Skinner As Marx correctly noted in the Communist Manifesto, the ruling ideas in any era are the ideas of the ruling class. The history that is published in school textbooks and made into TV mini-series is distorted in order to protect and support the capitalist system. Popular narratives of the Civil Rights movementContinue reading “Who’s Afraid of the Black Panthers? Lessons from the Black Panther Party”
Author Archives: Independent Socialist Group
The U.S. Left After Sanders’ Retreat
by Jeff Booth and Elisabeth Wichser And so today, I am announcing the suspension of active campaigning and congratulate Joe Biden, a very decent man, on his victory. Bernie Sanders (April 8, 2020) The Bernie Sanders campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for President in the current election cycle in the U.S. ended earlier thisContinue reading “The U.S. Left After Sanders’ Retreat”
Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
Black Lives Matter: A New Take on an Old Struggleby Elisabeth Wichser After the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers on May 25, millions took to the streets around the world to voice their outrage that yet another black person was murdered for the crime of existing in aContinue reading “Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement”
A Socialist Program for Fighting Police Racism and Brutality
View the Independent Socialist Group’s new pamphlet Against Racism & Police Brutality here! Explosive protests against police brutality have emerged across the U.S. in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. We in the Independent Socialist Group have drafted the following program in response. We hope it can helpContinue reading “A Socialist Program for Fighting Police Racism and Brutality”
CWI: Ecuador’s new cycle of mass protests
As the COVID-19 crisis rages on, a new wave of protests rock Ecuador. ISG sits down with an activists and freelance journalist in Ecuador to figure out the way forward.
CWI: A new world order: global reconstruction after World War Two
Russian leader, Joseph Stalin, US president, Harry Truman, and British prime minister, Winston Churchill, in 1945, on the eve of the new ‘Cold War’ which rapidly emerged between US imperialism and the Soviet Union. By Robin Clapp, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) This article was originally written for The Socialist (the weekly paper ofContinue reading “CWI: A new world order: global reconstruction after World War Two”
Black and white youth rise up against racism—US protester speaks with UK Socialist Party organizers
Black Lives Matter protest in Minnesota following the killing of George Floyd in May 2020 (Fibonacci Blue via Flickr // CC BY 2.0). Emery Addams from the Independent Socialist Group spoke to the Socialist Party in England and Wales—co-thinkers of the Independent Socialist Group—about the significance of the mass anti-racist protests shaking the US, outliningContinue reading “Black and white youth rise up against racism—US protester speaks with UK Socialist Party organizers”
CWI: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it “fanned the flames of revolt”
Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918 (Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine // Public domain). By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary This article was originally published on socialistworld.net, the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International on May 18, 2020. Laura Spinney’s book,Continue reading “CWI: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it “fanned the flames of revolt””
COVID-19 podría ser una sentencia de muerte para miles de prisioneros
For the millions of people incarcerated by the United States, social distancing is not an option. COVID-19 will kill untold numbers of inmates in prisons and ICE detention facilities unless we act now! A movement of the working class is essential to dismantling the Prison-Industrial complex, and building a socialist world.
Somali Public Trade Union: Statement of Solidarity
Solidarity with the Struggle of the Workers and People of USA Against Barbarism SPTU,Is an Independent trade union Based in Somalia an affiliated of the WFTU, expresses its solidarity with the workers and the people of the United States who are on the streets of rage against barbarism and misery. The assassination of George FloydContinue reading “Somali Public Trade Union: Statement of Solidarity”
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