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Spring 2011 Weekly Meetings: Mondays at 6:15pm in the Russell House, Room 305 starting February 7 with a meeting to discuss the developments in North Africa. NEW: Frequently Asked Questions Recent Speaker: Imperialist diplomacy exposed: Behind the witch-hunt of WikiLeaks Monday, January 24 at 6:15pm, Russell House University Union, room 302 The University of South Carolina chapter of the International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) is part of an international movement. As the student and youth organization of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), the ISSE works to build the a mass political movement of the working class. The issues that we face as students—including high tuition, debts, the starving of resources for public education — are inseparable from the broader questions confronting the working class. None of these problems can be solved on the USC campus or any other campus. We insist that chronic social problems can only be solved through a socialist movement of working people. Human progress is blocked by the capitalist system, which subordinates all considerations to the drive for corporate profit and the accumulation of wealth for the few. Students seeking to oppose war and inequality must reach out to workers throughout the country and internationally. However, a turn to the working class does not mean an alliance with the trade unions, or an attempt to bring these corrupt organizations into the south. These organizations, supposedly defenders of the working class, are in fact dominated by well-heeled executives and partners of corporate management. They have collaborated to impose concessions while seeking to keep workers tied to the political establishment. Against the existing trade unions as well as in their absence, the ISSE calls for the building of independent rank-and-file workplace, education, and neighborhood committees to unify various sections of workers and youth in a common struggle. Above all, the working class needs its own political party, in opposition to the Democrats and Republicans, the parties of the very rich. The ISSE rejects the position that these parties of the corporate elite can be pushed to the left through protests and demonstrations. Many young people voted for Obama hoping for “change” from the Bush administration. These hopes have very rapidly turned to disillusionment and anger as the new administration has only deepened the right-wing policies of its predecessor. The experience of the Obama Administration demonstrates that there can be no change through the existing institutions. The US is a democracy in name only; behind the façade of elections lies a completely corrupt political system beholden to the financial aristocracy. The ISSE seeks to build a mass political movement of the working class that will fight for power, establish a workers' government, and reorganize society on a democratic, egalitarian and rational basis.
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