Join the Fight for Rent Control! (6/17/2026) - By Dylan Valencia & Peggy Wang (Massachusetts Teachers Association, personal capacity)Boston, MA The campaign to win statewide rent control in Massachusetts resumes this spring/summer. The Homes for All Massachusetts coalition has proposed a ballot initiative for November 2026 that would establish statewide rent control, limiting annual rent increases to 5% or the rate of inflation,Continue reading "Join the Fight for Rent Control!"
Build a Fighting, Militant Labor Movement and a Workers’ Party to Take on the Corporate Class (6/12/2026) - 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" Building a Fighting Labor Movement (6/11/2026) - 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 (6/5/2026) - 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 (5/18/2026) - 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 (5/13/2026) - 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 (4/28/2026) - Join ISG at the following events on May 1st: May 1st, May Day, is International Workers Day. May Day rallies this year will include protests against the Trump regime, the cost-of-living crisis, attacks on immigrants, and the war against Iran. Calls for a general strike emerged in the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests in January. The IndependentContinue reading "May Day 2026: For Working-Class Revolutionary Socialism & A 24-Hour General Strike"
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