ISO Pittsburgh: December 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Public Forum: REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS of Karl Marx

Admission is free for this

presentation and discussion with Professor Paul LeBlanc

Thursday, January 17 - 7:30 p.m.

Friends Meeting House
4836 Ellsworth Avenue
(in Oakland, 5 minutes from the Pitt campus)

But wait - there's more...

Join our reading group
and class series for

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

We'll use
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO,
A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
Edited by Phil Gasper ($12)

It includes the full text of the Manifesto, commentaries, annotations, and additional works by Marx and Engels

Tuesday, January 22, 7:30 pm – Preamble and Part 1 (pages 37-57)

Tuesday, January 29, 7:30 pm – Part 2 (pages 58-71)

Tuesday, February, 5, 7:30 pm – Part 4, plus Afterword “Is the Manifesto Still Relevant?”
(pages 87-115)

Location: Thomas Merton Center,

5129 Penn Avenue

For more information: isopgh@gmail.com (or call 412-760-9716)

Who We Are

We are the Pittsburgh branch of the International Socialist Organization. Our members are involved in helping to build a number of struggles: the movement to stop American wars abroad, fights against racism and anti-immigrant scapegoating, the struggle for women's rights like the right to choose abortion, opposing anti-gay bigotry, pushing for environmental justice, and standing up for workers' rights. We are committed to building a left alternative to a world of war, racism and poverty.

Read our "Where We Stand" pamphlet for more information.

Why Socialism?

The misery that millions of people around the world face is rooted in the society we live in--capitalism, where the few who rule profit from the labor of the vast majority of the population.

In the U.S., a tiny proportion of the population enjoys fantastic wealth, while millions of people live in desperate poverty, and many more live paycheck to paycheck. Yet we have the resources to feed, clothe and educate everyone on the planet.

A world free of exploitation--socialism--is not only possible but worth fighting for. The ISO stands in the tradition of revolutionary socialists Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky in the belief that workers themselves--the vast majority of the population--are the only force that can lead the fight to win a socialist society. Socialism can't be brought about from above, but has to be won by workers themselves.