A Party for Our Side: Why We Need Socialist Organization

From the workers' occupation of the Republic Windows and Doors factory, to the rise of campus occupations by students, to protests against municipal budget cuts, police brutality and racism, a new mood of struggle is growing. But the Left is coming out of a period of weakness and there is little in the way of organization that can generalize these struggles and put forward an alternative. Now, as the need for fundamental change becomes clearer every day, the need for a socialist organization is also more urgent.

Such an organization can become a place to compare lessons, not only to advance the struggle and win concessions, but to win wider layers of people to the socialist project--the fight for a world without exploitation or oppression.

Come to a discussion about the need for socialist organization, and the prospects for building one in the United States today.

GUES SPEAKER: PAUL D'AMATO
Paul D'Amato is the managing editor of the International Socialist Review and the author of The Meaning of Marxism, a lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx and the tradition he founded.

Friday April 17, 7pm
Pupin, Room 329
Columbia University
enter at 116th & Broadway

look for signs to Pupin
1 train to 116th street

sponsored by the International Socialist Organization
nyciso@gmail.com
646-452-8662