International Socialist Organization - Strategy

Strategy

The ISO identifies itself as a Marxist organization, and advocates the emancipation of the working class and the oppressed through a revolutionary transformation of society. It advocates democratic control of the economy via grassroots networks of representative workplace and community councils. While it supports existing trade unions as essential components of workers' struggles, it maintains that workers need to organize themselves independently of the trade union officialdom. The ISO also maintains that racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression are perpetuated by the capitalist system to keep the working class divided against itself, and therefore participates in a wide range of social movements and struggles for social equality and civil rights. The ISO identifies itself as a Leninist organization because it calls for the formation of a revolutionary party by the most militant workers, and states that it is committed to playing a role in helping to build the foundations for such a party.