LENIN, ORGANIZATION, & REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE

Learning from the past, preparing for the future...

Three discussion sessions - Thursdays 7:30 - 8:30pm
February 27th readings:
 * Why NOT to Read Lenin (3 pages)
 * Lenin: A Succinct Biography (15 pages)

March 6th readings:
 * Brief Writings by Lenin

March 13th readings:
 * Towards a Revolutionary Socialist Party by Duncan Hallas
copies of readings provided at no cost

Join us in discussing how we can bring about a socialist democracy...

at the Thomas Merton Center

5129 Penn Ave

isopgh@gmail.com                     @isopittsburgh

Weekly Meetings are now on Thursdays!

This change will begin on January 23rd.

Meetings will continue to be held at the Thomas Merton Center, 5129 Penn Avenue.

All meetings are open to the public.

Rebel Party!

NEW BOOKS - Presentations

Pittsburgh Working-Class Studies Collaborative invites you 

to an evening with these authors:

Historian Paul LeBlanc

A dazzling gem of socialist scholarship!  -- Alan Wald

Exciting and unique, especially for students, activists, and scholars. An important challenge to the neoliberal agenda. – Immanuel Ness

Poet Robin Clarke

One of the most compelling first books
I’ve read in years. –- Mark Nowak

Lines the Quarry is a keenly needed reminder of what, in the common disaster, wants to live. – Anne Boyer

The event is free and open to all!

Monday December 2, 7:30 pm 

Pittsburgh Friends Meeting House

4836 Ellsworth Ave (Oakland)

Co-sponsored by the International Socialist Organization

Forum: REBEL CITIES

Thursday October 3rd  - 7:30 to 9pm

Building urban insurgencies to democratically transform society

Friends Meeting House

4836 Ellsworth Avenue in Oakland

Presentation from David Harvey (video)

followed by a panel discussion with:

Carl Redwood

Paul O'Hanlon

Helen Gerhardt

There is also a study group on David Harvey's Rebel Cities

at the Thomas Merton Center, 5129 Penn Avenue

Every Tuesday in October, 7:30 to 9pm

Rebel Cities can be purchased for $16.95

Everyone is welcome to participate in the study group!

First meeting is October 8th

Please contact leblanp1@laroche.edu or helengerhardt1@gmail.com

A Dream Deferred? MLK, Trayvon, and the fight against racism today

http://youtu.be/5esY2KeDx4E

August 24th ISO forum at Busboys and Poets in DC

MLK "I Have a Dream" Rally - for Justice! Join Us!

March on Washington

When Saturday August 24, 2013 from 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM EDT Add to Calendar Where Leave from:  Freedom Corner (Centre Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219) Arrive at: Lincoln Memorial (Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC)  Driving Directions

The Thomas Merton Center is working to support and join with Pittsburgh's  Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP) as they organize transportation to the the MLK 50th Anniversary March and Rally in D.C. to be held on Saturday, August 24. I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH and MARCH and RALLY DAY's EVENTS