International Socialist Organisation (Zimbabwe)
The International Socialist Organisation (ISO) is a Trotskyist organisation in Zimbabwe. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency (IST) led by the British Socialist Workers Party. It produces a newspaper called Socialist Worker.
It opposes both the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and claims to be under state harassment:
On the whole it is not safe for us to do street sales with our paper any more, though we can still hold public meetings if we are careful about security. The new press laws pushed through by Mugabe are going to make a lot of what we say very difficult to publish, because of course it is critical of the government.
However in 2011, members of the ISO, including its general coordinator, along with several other activists were arrested and tortured by the Zimbabwean police for hosting a meeting discussing the Arab Spring.
Read more about International Socialist Organisation (Zimbabwe): Relationship With The MDC, Split in The ISO, Arrest and Torture of Members
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