The International Youth and Students for Social Equality is the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties.
We insist that all the great problems confronting humanity in the 21st century—war, poverty and social inequality, the drive toward fascism and dictatorship by governments internationally—are the outcome of capitalism, and can only be addressed through the taking of political power by the working class and its establishment of a socialist society, founded on genuine equality.
Attend a meeting near you, and join the fight against war!
On Saturday, December 10, the IYSSE held an international online rally to oppose the war in Ukraine. Speakers from the IYSSE and the International Committee of the Fourth International from throughout the world provided a Marxist analysis of the origins and consequences of the war, and outlined a perspective for the building of a mass socialist anti-war movement, based in the working class.
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The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
In endorsing and participating in the demonstration on March 18, the IYSSE seeks to advance a revolutionary socialist strategy that directs the anti-war movement toward an open struggle against capitalism.
Representatives from 11 different countries—the United States, Russia, Turkey, the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand—discussed the state of the US-NATO war against Russia and resolved to develop a global movement of young people to oppose war.
This statement was submitted by the Young Guard of the Bolshevik-Leninists (YGBL), an organization in Russia that has declared its political support for the International Committee of the Fourth International.
The two events in Sri Lanka were part of a global series being held by the IYSSE to fight for the end of the war in Ukraine and to prevent the US-led plans for conflict with China.
“There can be no future when global destruction is on the horizon. I believe in the international movement against war and I will be present for the IYSSE international webinar.”
Supporters of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) in India have received significant support from workers and students in their campaign to build the international online rally, “For a mass movement of youth and students to stop the war in Ukraine!” organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) on December 10.
Students who spoke to SEP members in France denounced the impact of the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine on inflation, energy supply and the threat of a nuclear escalation.
The University of California Rank-and-File Strike Committee is fighting to oppose the UAW bureaucracy's efforts to sabotage the powerful four-week strike by 48,000 UC academic workers.
Part-time faculty members at The New School voted down the university’s “last, best and final offer” by 95 percent.
This statement has been issued by the University of California Rank-and-File Strike Committee. Voting on tentative agreements covering 11,000 postdocs and academic researchers is beginning today and will continue throughout the week.
Striking workers are trying to break through the limits imposed by the United Auto Workers apparatus, which is working to impose a deal acceptable to the budgetary restraints set by the Democrats.
The agreements, which cover just over one fifth of the 48,000 striking UC workers, are aimed at dividing workers and forcing through agreements at a point when the strike is having its biggest impact.
With RPI inflation rate running at 14.2 percent to October, the University and College Union’s pay claim is well below inflation.
The current strike by over 1,600 part-time faculty at The New School in New York City is winning wide support from workers and students throughout the city and across the country.
Over 1,600 part-time faculty members went on strike at the New School in New York City Wednesday morning, joining 48,000 University of California graduate student workers who began their strike at the beginning of the week at 10 UC campuses across the state.
“You have taken a courageous stand against the powerful corporate and political forces that run the University of California system,” Will Lehman, a candidate for UAW president, said, “and your struggle deserves the broadest support from all workers and youth.”
The shocking information revealed in this study emerges just days before school districts across the US reopen their doors to tens of millions of students, teachers, and other school staff for fully in-person learning.
The university administration is creating conditions for a massive outbreak of the second deadly disease to hit the campus.
American universities have been caught wholly unprepared for outbreaks. Contrary to official messaging, monkeypox is highly contagious and there is evidence that it may be airborne as well.
Demonstrating the immense toll the pandemic has taken on the mental health of young people, a University of Calgary study of 80,000 youth across the globe discovered that rates of anxiety and depression among young people have doubled since the pandemic began in 2020.
This is the report delivered by Gregor Link to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1.
In this video, deputy elect Gregor Kahl explains the significance of the IYSSE’s electoral success and their socialist perspective.
The already dramatic social plight of German students is growing worse. According to the latest figures from the German Federal Statistics Bureau, more than a third of all students were at risk of poverty in 2021.
Tony Abbott’s proposal is a sign of the desperation of the Australian political establishment, as it prepares for the coming conflict with China and faces an acute labour shortage at home.
High schoolers across France blockaded 100 high schools and protested at hundreds more on Tuesday in support of striking refinery workers.
Major outbreaks of respiratory viruses, including the flu, have recently occurred in schools throughout San Diego County in California, with more than 1,000 students out sick last week at Patrick Henry High School alone.
The IYSSE urges young people to look honestly at our society. What does the phenomenon of mass violence say about the health of modern-day capitalism?
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality has been speaking to students on the social and political roots of mass violence in the US.
As police attempted to cover up their complicity in the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, thousands of students protested unending gun violence in mass walkouts.
The American ruling elite, its politicians and its media outlets, have nothing insightful or useful to say about this most recent calamity.
On March 18, 1871, the armed working class districts of Paris rose up and established the first workers state in world history, the Paris Commune.
This article presents 10 key moments from the World Socialist Web Site’s live discussion with David North and Eric London, co-moderated by Joseph Kishore and Tom Mackaman, on the latest series in the International Committee of the Fourth International’s Security and the Fourth International investigation.
Born on Nov. 28, 1820, Engels was the co-founder of scientific socialism with his friend Karl Marx, who was two-and-a-half years his senior. Two hundred years later, their life’s work is of burning contemporary relevance.
Rosa Luxemburg, who was born on 5 March, 1871, was among the most important revolutionary Marxists of the 20th century, and her work contains vital lessons for today.
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
