Reflections on the ISO crisis

The Steering Committee of the ISO writes to members about a deep crisis in the organization and the steps being taken to address it.

In the coming days, we hope to serve the wider left by devoting ourselves to reckoning with the crisis that has gripped our organization.

The coming out of sexual assault survivors has profoundly shaped the response of ISO members to the revelations of gross misconduct six years ago.

A longtime socialist urges her comrades to go forward with care and compassion for each other and for the larger project of socialism.

A statement from the Interim Coordinating Committee of the Survivors’ Caucus of the International Socialist Organization.

As the International Socialist Organization goes through a period of crisis, a member provides a parable to describe the experience.

We on the left need to move beyond the shambles in which we find ourselves to do what needs to be done. What lessons will help?

The disastrous handling of a sexual assault complaint shouldn’t lead us to believe that two important principles are irreconcilable.

The lessons we will draw from the crisis in the ISO need to be used to further the project that the organization aimed to advance.

With both class struggle and racism on the rise, we need to reduce the barriers between people of color and socialist organizations.

We must acknowledge problems in the organization’s internal culture in order to lay the basis for building a stronger anti-racist left.

One lesson of our organizational reckoning should be that socialists must abandon the notion that “personal issues” are not political.

Members of the International Socialist Organization write to report that the process of disbanding the group has been finalized.