International Socialist League (2019)

This article is about the international organization founded in 2019 in Barcelona. For other organizations, see International Socialist League.

The International Socialist League (ISL-LIS) is an international political organization made up of national revolutionary socialist and Trotskyist parties and organizations from five continents.

The ISL was founded at a conference held in Barcelona on May 24 to 26, 2019. The initiative was a result of the merging of the organizations that made up the Anticapitalist Network - the Socialist Workers´ Movement (MST) of Argentina and Socialist Tide of Venezuela, among others - and the Socialist Laborers Party (SEP) of Turkey. The Anticapitalist Network was dissolved in a meeting the day before the ISL founding conference. Delegates from a score of countries founded the new international organization and voted on a common program at the Barcelona conference.[1]

In its program, the ISL declares its strategic objective as the “building revolutionary parties and a revolutionary International” to “definitely overthrow capitalism and undertake the worldwide construction of socialism.”[2]

The organizations that make up the ISL come from different revolutionary tendencies and currents. The ISL hence proposes a working method based on adherence to a revolutionary program and strategy, common intervention in the class struggle through international campaigns and mutual support in the construction of revolutionary organizations in each country, but respecting the diverse traditions and trajectories of the national organizations that comprise it, and the different tactics and policies that member organizations adopt to intervene in each country.[1]

Since its founding, the ISL has incorporated more parties and founded new groups, extending its organized presence to the five continents. The organization's first congress, scheduled for May 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic[3] and held in December 2021.[4]

During 2020, the ISL held two virtual international youth conferences, on June 20[5] and July 13,[6] and two virtual international conferences, on August 9[7] and December 12.[8] Organizations from over 30 countries, including Argentina, Pakistan, Australia, Turkey, United States, France, Chile, Lebanon, Belarus, Iraq, Brazil, Western Sahara, Spanish State, Russia, Iran, Colombia, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Peru, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Sweden, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay participated in the December conference.[9][10]

The political resolution of the conference assesses the current economic and health crisis as a profound capitalist crisis that generates political and social polarization, rebellions and revolutions, expanding the political space and opportunities for the revolutionary left. It also proposes a socialist program to resolve the crisis and calls on the revolutionaries of the world to unite in the political and social struggle and together build revolutionary socialist parties and a revolutionary international organization to fight for governments of the workers and peoples and a socialist world.[8]

## Campaigns[edit]

Since its foundation, the ISL has carried out a series of international campaigns, with coordinated actions and mobilizations in various countries, collection of signatures, photos and videos of support and collections of donations, including: in solidarity with the Yellow Vests of France; in support of the rebellion in the United States after the assassination of George Floyd;[11] for the release of Ali Wazir in Pakistan; against the repression and persecution of labor leaders and activists in Venezuela; in support of the popular revolution in Chile; in support of Catalan self-determination; "One Dollar / One Euro for Lebanon" in support of the Lebanese people after the explosion in the port of Beirut;[12] “Democracy is Essential” in support of the right to mobilize in Australia; in support of the student movement and against the persecution of activists in Colombia; against repression and persecution in Russia; against repression and in support of popular rebellion in Belarus; for the self-determination of Western Sahara; for unified public health systems in the face of the covid-19 pandemic; against Turkish aggression in Rojava and the self-determination of Kurdistan.[13]

## Publications[edit]

The ISL publishes the magazine Permanent Revolution[14] and the isl-lis.org website with articles in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Turkish.

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Arslan, V. U. (14 June 2019). "Foundation of the ISL is A Historical Step Forward". Socialist Middle East. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
2. ^ "Our strategy for the socialist revolution". International Socialist League. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
3. ^ "Exitosa Conferencia Internacional de la LIS". Alternativa Socialista. 23 December 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
4. ^ "1st Congress of the ISL: Statutes of the International Socialist League". International Socialist League. 11 December 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
5. ^ "Over 30 Countries, 5 Continents: A Historical International Conference of Socialist Youth". Asian Marxist Review. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
6. ^ "Global Youth Forum: Precarity Without Borders, Let's Turn Everything Over!". Asian Marxist Review. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
7. ^ "Resolución política de la Conferencia Internacional de la LIS". Periodismo de Izquierda (in Spanish). 19 September 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
8. ^ a b "Resolutions of the ISL International Conference". International Socialist League. 12 December 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
9. ^ "December 12: International Socialist League Conference". Asian Marxist Review. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
10. ^ "Conferencia Internacional de la LIS". MST (in Spanish). 23 December 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
11. ^ "ISL Statement: Solidarity With the Rebellion in Minneapolis and Across the United States". Socialist Laborers Party. 2020-05-31. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
12. ^ "ISL Declaration-Campaign: 1 Dollar/1 Euro in Solidarity with the Lebanese Working Class". Socialist Laborers Party. 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
13. ^ "Campaigns". International Socialist League. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
14. ^ "Permanent Revolution". International Socialist League. Retrieved 2021-02-19.

## External links[edit]

* International Socialist League
* Strategy and Program of the ISL
* Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores (MST) \- Argentina
* Socialist Laborers Party (SEP) \- Turkey
* The Struggle \- Pakistan
* Socialist Alternative \- Australia
* Marea Socialista \- Venezuela
* Movement for Change \- Lebanon
* International Socialist League \- United States
* La Commune \- France
* Alternativa Socialista \- Brazil
* Luta Socialista \- Brazil
* Ukrainian Socialist League Archived 2021-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
* Socialismo y Libertad \- Spain
* Movimiento Anticapitalista \- Chile
* Impulso Socialista \- Colombia
* Alternativa Anticapitalista \- Nicaragua
* Without Borders Internationalism and Liberty \- Russia
* Alternativa Socialista \- Paraguay
* Rumbo Socialsita \- Uruguay
* Periodismo de Izquierda
* Socialist Middle East
* Asian Marxist Review
* Tempest Collective
* Aporrea.org