Socialist Organizer

  In a lively and raucous day of action, an estimated crowd of 2,000 students, faculty, and community members marched and rallied to call on S.F. City Hall to take action to save City College of San Francisco. After campus walkouts and a march through the Mission District, protesters briefly occupied the City Hall lobby. [...]

We all want to save City College of San Francisco (CCSF). But how can this be done? Influential forces from above say that the only way to save CCSF is to accept drastic cuts to our school. The ACCJC accreditation, CCSF administrators, and Board of Trustees (including the student trustee)  are cynically using the threat of [...]

A student occupation of the administration building at City College of San Francisco on Feb. 21 was a major step forward for the movement to save the school from the forces of privatization and austerity. At 5pm dozens of students voted to continue the occupation despite the risk of arrest; to their surprise, the arrests [...]

Here is the final part of a series on U.S. Labor Party organizing experiences. You can read the previous eight parts at socialistorganizer.org. -ed. The critical factor in building a viable Farmer-Labor political movement was the intimate, supportive involvement of national farmer and labor organizations. But this was not on the agenda between 1925 and [...]

Socialistorganizer.org has shared a nine-part series on Labor Party organizing in the United States by Stan Phipps. This is part eight. You can read previous parts at socialistorganizer.org. -ed. For advocates of a class-based political realignment in the United States, the most disorienting challenge to the Democrats’ and Republicans’ two-party political-monopoly is Robert LaFollette’s 1924 [...]

What follows is part seven of an ongoing series by Professor Stan Phipps on U.S. experiences with Labor Party organizing. This nine-part rotation was originally published in The Organizer, the journal of Socialist Organizer. You can read other parts at socialistorganizer.org. -ed. Over time, there is a great variance in the extent to which workers [...]

What follows is part six of Professor Stan Phipps’ study of Labor Party organizing experiences in the United States. You can read part one, part two, part three, part four and part five online at Socialist Organizer. -ed. “We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material [...]

The mass direct action at the Sept. 11 Board of Trustee’s meeting of City College of San Francisco (CCSF) was a significant step forward for struggle to save CCSF as an affordable and accessible community college. In response to a proposal to impose a dictatorial “Special Trustee” with full power to impose cuts over the [...]

This is part five of a nine-week series on Labor Party organizing experiences in the United States, authored by Stan Phipps and originally published by Socialist Organizer. You can read  part one, part two, part three and part four online as well. -ed. Labor, in the decade of the 1870s, pursued independent political action in a loose alliance [...]

First and foremost, we must be clear on the fact that Obama’s immigration policy has not only failed to heed the mandate of Latinos for papers for all, but it has completely devastated the immigrant community through raids and deportations. The New York Times reported in June 2012 that Obama had deported a record 400,000 [...]