Socialist Organizer

The Southern Indiana Branch of Socialist Organizer, the United States section of the Fourth International, stands in complete solidarity with the students, teachers and staff of Indiana University in support of the IU-system wide strike scheduled for April 11-12. Our members stand together in solidarity with our fellow comrades of the Industrial Workers of the [...]

  More than a decade of cuts, mass layoffs, and dwindling financial aid have decimated public education systems all over the world. The gains of decades of struggle aimed at making public education accessible to all have been erased in a matter of years. The results are public universities so expensive and inaccessible that education [...]

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 [...]

  With precipitous budget cuts, fee hikes, and austerity for faculty and staff, it is no secret that the University of California system, and California public education in general, is in crisis.  While the UC administration and state politicians explain away this crisis as an unavoidable result of the 2008 financial crisis and rising enrollment, [...]

On January 8, 2013, nearly 1000 students, parents and other community members  gave the School District of Philadelphia’s plan to gut public education an angry reception.  District officials struggled to present their plan as a raucous crowd  chanted and jeered. at  the first of nine meetings planned to explain district restructuring and downsizing plans. North [...]

January 11th, 2013. Hundreds of teachers walked out of Diego Rivera Theater as the new Chancellor of CCSF was scheduled to speak. They joined hundreds outside at a rally in which speakers from faculty and student body gave voice to the undemocratic process by which decisions affecting the Commons (CCSF) of the community of SF [...]

Students at Indiana University call for a Campus Wide Strike Students at Indiana University of Bloomington are calling on students, faculty and staff for an Indiana University wide strike on all campuses. Around 100 students from IU Student Power met in early December to discuss, plan and organize for the strike. The strike is planned [...]

An historic opportunity to reverse decades of austerity has arisen in California after the November 6 elections. By passing the revenue-generating Prop 30, defeating the anti-union Prop 32, and sweeping the Democrats into their first super-majority in the state legislature since 1933, working people expressed a clear mandate to reverse the past years of devastating [...]

On Thursday November 8th, students will gather at noon on Sproul Plaza to mark the anniversary of Occupy Cal and the ongoing fight to defend Berkeley, the UC system, and the entire California public education system from ongoing defunding and privatization.  While the Occupy movement appears to have faded, all the grievances that brought students and [...]