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    this guy rose didn't say anything about International Socialist Organization being on his property.

    International Socialist Organization
    P.O. Box 16085
    Chicago, IL
    60616
    Phone :773-583-5069
    URL :Website


    Anti-American, anti-capitalist Communist organization
    Present on many American campuses
    Opposes the Patriot Act and the War on Terror

    Evoking the Communist tradition of Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin, the Chicago-based International Socialist Organization (ISO) aspires to "organize activists in workplaces and communities and on campuses in order to mobilize opposition to all forms of oppression and exploitation." With capitalism its avowed enemy, the ISO places the blame for the world's social ills on America, and more specifically the Republican Party, calling President Bush the "bigot-in-chief," and describing the "dynasty" of the Bush family as a "virus."

    Founded in 1977, the ISO traces its intellectual antecedents to Trotskyism, and to a rejection of Shachtmanism, so named after Max Shachtman, the onetime head of the Socialist Workers Party; Shachtman and his followers generally supported the hard-line Cold War-era stance against Communist expansionism, which it correctly recognized as a more violent and vile exploitation of people than anything capitalism has yet designed. Still, the ISO does reject the state-sponsored Communism found in China, Cuba, and the old USSR, on the grounds that those states merely create structures to alienate workers from their labor and the sources of capital in the same way that the Western democracies do.

    The ISO claims the need for permanent workers' revolutions on an ongoing basis, in the tradition of Trotsky and his denunciation of the Stalinist state. The ISO maintains an educational program calling for socialist workers revolutions at a variety of venues, including work places and college campuses. It claims that all the evils of the world, including poverty, environmental issues, war, and famine, are the direct result of capitalism.

    Intellectually, the ISO bases its contentions on analyses of Eastern-bloc economies that critiqued the state-sponsored capital systems of those countries and called for a strenuous rejection of the state model; maintained that Western prosperity in the Cold War era was largely maintained only by massive defense spending; and accepted the theory of deflected permanent revolution to account for workers' failures to take over Third World countries (fundamentally, an absence of an intelligentsia capable of sustaining the bourgeoisie democratic stage of revolution).

    The ISO website maintains links to the websites of numerous socialist groups in France, Australia, and Ireland. The organization's announced plan of action is decidedly international in scope. In 2000, the ISO attracted a large number of new members when it by worked for the presidential campaign of the Green Party's Ralph Nader. The following year, a small group of ISO members broke away from the group and created a new organization called Left Turn. Currently, the ISO claims a membership of approximately 1,000 and publishes the weekly newspaper Socialist Worker, whose articles condemn capitalism and imperialism, and whose editorials call for "militant workers" to form a "revolutionary socialist party." It also publishes the journal Socialist Review. In addition to its national office in Chicago, the ISO maintains six regional branches.

    Among the ISO's official policies are a rejection of U.S. intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, an effort to inspire anti-war sentiment on college campuses (particularly by creating fears of a renewed draft), pushing for greater rights for illegal immigrants and completely open borders, and the condemnation of capital punishment.

    Despite an ostensibly bold "Who We Are" link, the ISO website discloses no names of the group's leadership. The links to the regional leadership web addresses reveal only a list of aliases and non-entities.

    The ISO is a member organization of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition. It disparages the Patriot Act and other government efforts to strengthen national security as malicious assaults on civil liberties.

    The ISO views terrorism against U.S. targets and those of America's allies (most notably Israel) as the desperate actions of people who have been treated unjustly for too long by those nations. Regarding the 9/11 hijackers and Palestinian suicide bombers, for instance, the ISO asserts, "They weren't born wanting to become suicide bombers. But their lifetimes of humiliation . . . made them open to terrorism as a means to avenge their oppression."

    The ISO endorsed the 2002 Market Workers Justice Campaign of the activist coalition Communities in Solidarity with Immigrant Workers. This campaign called for increased wages and benefits for Korean and Latino immigrant workers, including those living illegally in the United States.

    The ISO was also a signatory to a February 20, 2002 document, composed by the radical group Refuse & Resist, condemning military tribunals and the detention of immigrants apprehended in connection with post-9/11 terrorism investigations. Titled "National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab and South Asian Immigrants," the document read, in part, "[T]hey [the U.S. government] are coming for the Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrants. Based on their racial profile, over 1500 have been rounded up and the government refuses to say who they are, where they are jailed and what the charges are!!! Already, a Pakistani man has died in custody. Who will be next? The recent 'disappearances,' indefinite detention, the round-ups, the secret military tribunals, the denial of legal representation, evidence kept a secret from the accused, the denial of any due process for Arab, Muslim, South Asians and others, have chilling similarities to a police state. We will not allow our grief for the tragedy of September 11 to be used to justify this new repression. We are clear that being an immigrant is not a crime; Muslims, Arabs and South Asians are not terrorists."
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    Socialists at Minutemen Rally

    It doesn't surprise me that the socialist party was disturbing a peaceful rally by the Minutemen...

    The illegal alien protests are also organized by the communists.

    Check out this link:

    http://www.onthefencefilms.com/video/unodemayo/

    It shows some very disturbing scenes at the May 1st protests in both San Francisco and New York.

    I hope the Minutemen learn their lesson and take out the permits before they post their schedules.

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