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”
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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”
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”
May Day 2026: For Working-Class Revolutionary Socialism & A 24-Hour General Strike
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”
Stop the Middleborough Teacher Cuts!
Full funding and staffing for Middleborough Public Schools In Middleborough, Massachusetts, the school board claims that a $2.2 million shortfall in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2027 means they have to lay off 29 staff members in the school system, including 23 teachers. This is despite the school board proposing a $10,000 raise toContinue reading “Stop the Middleborough Teacher Cuts!”
Solidarity with New York City Nurses on Strike!
Since January 12, 15,000 New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) members have participated in the largest and longest nurses’ strike in New York history. ISG gives full support and solidarity to these striking workers who are braving brutal attacks from the hospital corporations Mt. Sinai, Montefiore, and New York-Presbyterian, three of the largest and wealthiestContinue reading “Solidarity with New York City Nurses on Strike!”
ICE Out of Minneapolis! Justice for Alex Pretti!
Statement based on reports from ISG members in Minneapolis, published January 25, 2026 Yesterday morning, January 24, ICE agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, an anti-ICE activist, Veterans Affairs nurse, and union member in the American Federation of Government Employees. This comes a day after tens of thousands of protestors took to theContinue reading “ICE Out of Minneapolis! Justice for Alex Pretti!”
The Independent Socialist Group Stands With the Call for a General Strike and Day of Action in Minneapolis
Our Unions Need to Fight for the Working Class: Strike Against ICE Terror! An Injury to One is an Injury to All! Solidarity Between All Working People! Abolish ICE! ICE agents have murdered Renee Good and at least 5 other innocent civilians over the last year. ICE and the Trump administration have blood on theirContinue reading “The Independent Socialist Group Stands With the Call for a General Strike and Day of Action in Minneapolis”
Stop the ICE raids, Abolish ICE! Convict the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good
Independent Socialist Group at a Boston MA protest against ICE’s murder of Renee Good (1/7/2026) On Wednesday January 7, ICE agents in Minneapolis shot and killed anti-ICE activist Renee Good. This is the latest in at least 5 murders over the last year of civilians at the hands of ICE agents. The Trump regime’s massContinue reading “Stop the ICE raids, Abolish ICE! Convict the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good”
Stop the ICE raids, Abolish ICE! No Deportations, No Disappearances!
Los Angeles “A Day Without Immigrants” demonstration on May Day, 5/1/2006 (Jonathan McIntosh / Wikimedia Commons) The Trump regime’s mass deployment of ICE agents into working-class neighborhoods across the country is terrorizing communities, schools, hospitals, stores, and workplaces. Backed by National Guard troops and militarized federal and local police, ICE is emboldened to abduct, detain,Continue reading “Stop the ICE raids, Abolish ICE! No Deportations, No Disappearances!”
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