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A reply to the ISO’s Sherry Wolf on racial politics and the killing of Trayvon Martin

By Joseph Kishore, April 19, 2012

The recent World Socialist Web Site article, “The killing of Trayvon Martin and racial politics in America,” provoked a response from the International Socialist Organization’s Sherry Wolf.

ISO covers for New York nurses union

By Peter Daniels, February 10, 2012

The “pseudo-left” finds a silver lining in concessions for New York nurses.

The ISO and the Cooper Tire lockout

By Barry Grey, Charles Bogle, December 31, 2011

In the face of the treachery by the United Steel Workers at Cooper Tire, the International Socialist Organization (ISO) is doing its best to disorient and confuse the rank and file and give a boost to the union leadership.

Occupy Wall Street: The ISO promotes the unions against workers’ interests

By David Walsh, October 28, 2011

The International Socialist Organization (ISO) is one of the most relentless advocates of the American trade unions anywhere on the political spectrum.

The Nation, ISO seek to channel Wall Street protests back to the Democratic Party

By David Walsh, October 7, 2011

The Nation magazine and the International Socialist Organization are intervening in the Wall Street protests to prevent the emergence of a movement in opposition to the Democratic Party and capitalism.

ISO ignores every question of principle in Strauss-Kahn affair

By David Walsh, September 2, 2011

Socialist Worker has denounced the dismissal of sexual assault charges against French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn by a judge in New York City August 23.

ISO covers for unions’ betrayal of Verizon strike

By Jerry White, August 23, 2011

The International Socialist Organization is defending the unions responsible for the sellout of the strike by 45,000 Verizon telecom workers.

The ISO and the betrayal of the Chicago teachers

By Jerry White, June 17, 2011

The International Socialist Organization, which styles itself a force to lead the struggles of workers, bears direct political responsibility for a major attack against Illinois teachers.

The International Socialist Organization gushes over unions’ role in Wisconsin

By David Walsh, February 23, 2011

The International Socialist Organization reacted to the explosion of working class anger in Wisconsin by encouraging illusions that the trade unions would resist Republican Governor Scott Walker’s attack on public sector workers.

On the US “left” and the Egyptian Revolution

By Jerry White, February 1, 2011

Just as they did in the recent events in Tunisia, the International Socialist Organization is promoting the bourgeois opposition in Egypt, including Mohamed ElBaradei, as the legitimate leaders of the mass movement.

The ISO, the middle-class “left” and the Chicago Teachers Union

By Kristina Betinis, Jerry White, January 12, 2011

More than six months after a supposed militant faction of the Chicago Teachers Union won control of the union, it has refused to mount any struggle against the destruction of teachers’ jobs and conditions.

Break with Obama and the Democratic Party

For an independent working class movement to defend public education!

By the Statement International Students for Social Equality, October 7, 2010

Students are protesting today against attacks on public education under conditions of mounting social distress for millions of young people.