The Independent Socialist Group is at the Labor Notes and Railroad Workers United conferences this week in Chicago. Our leaflet below is for both conventions. We invite all interested to join us online next week for a public meeting discussing how we can build the labor movement and why our unions should help organize aContinue reading “Build a Fighting, Militant Labor Movement and a Workers’ Party to Take on the Corporate Class”
Category Archives: Issues & Struggles
Building a Fighting Labor Movement
By Nick WurstSMART-TD local 1473 & Railroad Workers United (personal capacity)Worcester, MA The working class is in the grips of a massive cost-of-living crisis. Gas prices are skyrocketing due to the US-Israeli assault on Iran and Lebanon. Utility bills are climbing as heat waves hit much of the US. Corporations are pressuring the working classContinue reading “Building a Fighting Labor Movement”
Pride 2026: Protest and Fight Against Trump and the Right
ISG at Boston Pride with the Andrea James independent for Massachusetts governor campaign contingent (6/6/2026) revolutionary socialist struggle for queer liberation As queer workers and youth face increased repression in Trump’s second term, we need to bring back real, militant organizing to the struggle for queer liberation. The rights won by the queer movement wereContinue reading “Pride 2026: Protest and Fight Against Trump and the Right “
ISG stands in Solidarity with Long Island Railroad Workers
By Nick Wurst and Matt Foster, both members of SMART-TD and Railroad Workers United The Independent Socialist Group stands in solidarity with workers at the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) in New York, where approximately 3,500 members of rail unions have taken strike action against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) which owns and operates LIRR. TheContinue reading “ISG stands in Solidarity with Long Island Railroad Workers”
FALLING LIVING STANDARDS AND ANOTHER WAR FOR OIL
Profits Over People Every Time by Miranda Alpert and Jeff Booth (AFSCME Local 3650, personal capacity)Boston, MApublished in the April 2026 edition of Socialism Today Before the Trump regime launched its war on Iran, there was already a recession brewing in the weakening U.S. economy. The murderous war for oil increases the threat of recession,Continue reading “FALLING LIVING STANDARDS AND ANOTHER WAR FOR OIL”
May Day 2026: For Working-Class Revolutionary Socialism & A 24-Hour General Strike
Join ISG at the following events on May 1st: Boston, MA: 2:30pm, Dewey Square and 4:30pm, Boston Common Worcester, MA: 4pm, City Hall New Bedford, MA: 4:30pm, Corner of State Highway 140 & Brownell Avenue Portland, ME: 3pm, Monument Square May 1st, May Day, is International Workers Day. May Day rallies this year will includeContinue reading “May Day 2026: For Working-Class Revolutionary Socialism & A 24-Hour General Strike”
Support the Andrea James Independent Left Campaign for Massachusetts Governor
The Independent Socialist Group voted to support the Andrea James campaign for Massachusetts Governor and is publishing the following statement. If you are interested in how to organize for independent working-class politics, contact us! Many are looking to the 2026 elections as an opportunity to fight back against the unpopular, anti-working class Trump administration andContinue reading “Support the Andrea James Independent Left Campaign for Massachusetts Governor”
STOP THE WAR, STOP TRUMP! BUILD FOR A REAL GENERAL STRIKE!
The Trump regime is escalating its rampage against the working class here in the U.S., in Iran, and around the world. Trump’s right-wing, corporate administration has plunged the U.S. and other countries into another brutal war for oil. Every day the government spends billions on the war, including arming the Israeli military and joining withContinue reading “STOP THE WAR, STOP TRUMP! BUILD FOR A REAL GENERAL STRIKE!”
Hands off Cuba!
No Invasion, End the Sanctions! By Claire Bayler & Jack D. (Worcester, MA / Maine) Trump and his administration say “Cuba’s next” following the vicious U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran. The Trump administration has moved aggressively in the interests of U.S. capitalism and imperialism with the kidnapping and replacement of Venezuela’s president in JanuaryContinue reading “Hands off Cuba!”
Stop the War on Iran! For International Working-Class Solidarity to Stop Imperialist Wars
(image: Wikimedia Commons, 3 Mar 2026, Tehran – The Fourth Day of War, محمدعلی برنو) By Peggy WangMassachusetts Teachers Association, personal capacityBoston, MA The horrors of capitalism are wreaking havoc in the bloody, needless war on Iran. The US and Israeli governments are ruthlessly raining bombs across the country and have killed over 1,400 IraniansContinue reading “Stop the War on Iran! For International Working-Class Solidarity to Stop Imperialist Wars”
