International Socialist Organization - Pittsburgh

03/15/2019

03/14/2019

Lucy Herschel, a 22-year rank-and-file member of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, argues that the labor movement needs to revive its recent history of demanding full equality for all immigrant workers.

The government terrorizes immigrant workers not to protect the rest of us but to help corporations by keeping us divided and weak.

03/14/2019

Eric Pelkey reviews a recent book about the way that key strikes have shaped U.S. history.

To those in power, our knowledge of the history of class struggle is dangerous. A new book aims to make the bosses’ problem worse.

03/14/2019

Michelle Sapere, a teacher in Rochester, New York, describes how educators are coming together to demand that no pension fund money go to the corrections industry.

Rochester, New York, educators are demanding that their pension funds divest from for-profit corrections companies like GEO Group.

03/13/2019

Chris Black reports on the efforts of activists to win freedom for Ronnie Long, who has spent decades behind bars despite evidence that he is innocent.

Activists rallied to free Ronnie Long, who has spent more than 40 years behind bars despite a racist trial and evidence exonerating him.

03/08/2019

In 1920, Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai explained the working-class, anti-imperialist and revolutionary roots of International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8. This text is republished from the Marxists Internet Archive.

A Russian revolutionary explains how a day of international solidarity with working women became the first day of the 1917 revolution.

03/08/2019

The nine days on strike showed the strong support for Oakland teachers and the struggle to save public education at every picket line and every protest — and the determination of the community to hold the line along with teachers. Here, Jenna Woloshyn, a SocialistWorker.org contributor, a Teamster member at UPS and parent of three students in the Oakland Unified School District, tells about her experience in the strike, including a confrontation with members of the school board during a protest against budget cuts.

An Oakland parent of three students talks about the high stakes in the teachers’ strike that brought her back to the picket lines each day.

03/08/2019

"I want to ask the question—I want to ask the question of why is it OK for you to push, for you to be—there are so many people. I mean, most of us are new, but many members of Congress have been there forever. Some of them have been there before we were born. So I know many of them, many of them, were fighting—were fighting for people to be freed, for people to live in dignity in South Africa. I know many of them fight for people around the world to have dignity, to have self-determination. So I know—I know that they care about these things. But now that you have two Muslims who are saying, 'Here is a group of people that we want to make sure they have the dignity that you want everybody else to have,' we get to be called names, and we get to be labeled as hateful?"

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Thursday condemning anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination, white supremacy and other forms of hate. The vote was 407 to 23, with nearly two dozen Republicans voting against it. The vote capped a week of intense debate among congress...

03/08/2019

The gathering at Schenley Plaza gave students a chance to speak on extending Title IX protections, reproductive rights and other issues.

03/08/2019

Congratulations to the Grad Students at Pitt! Years of hard work and organizing have paid off!

SOLIDARITY!

University of Pittsburgh graduate students are one step closer to having union representation.

03/07/2019

Eric Ruder argues that the left must continue to stand with Ilhan Omar — but also to advance the discussion of Israel and Palestine that she has raised.

The public shaming of Ilhan Omar on false charges of anti-Semitism ran into an angry opposition felt all the way to the Capitol.

03/07/2019

Alex Moyle reports on an eruption of protest in Sacramento after officials announced they wouldn’t be pressing charges against the cops who killed Stephon Clark last year.

To justify not charging the cops who killed Stephon Clark, the DA smeared the victim once again — but there’s a new wave of protest.

03/07/2019

Donald Trump is all fired up about the evils of socialism, and he won't stop yammering about it. Adam Marletta explains what he should be afraid of.

A specter is haunting the White House: The specter of communism. That’s what Donald Trump says — and there’s a lot of truth to it.

03/07/2019

Alex Macmillan and Mara García Viloria report from Greensboro on a speak-out against U.S. government and business support for a would-be coup in Venezuela.

A speak-out brought attention to allegations that a Greensboro-based company is supplying arms to Venezuela’s coup-makers.

03/07/2019

Cami Q explica por qué quienes defendemos la democracia debemos organizarnos para protestar la llegada de Jair Bolsonaro, el presidente de Brasil, a Estados Unidos.

El presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, tiene previsto visitar Estados Unidos, y debemos prepararnos para darle la “bienvenida” que merece.

03/06/2019

Congressional Democrats are attempting to discipline Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for speaking critically about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — and more generally in defense of Palestinian rights — after smearing her as “anti-Semitic.” This comes at the same time that Omar, one of the only Muslim representatives in Congress, has been targeted for death threats and Islamophobic propaganda likening her to those who carried out the 9/11 attacks.

Hundreds of left-wing Jewish activists are raising their voices to condemn the smear campaign directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar.