Join the International Students for Social Equality!
Build an ISSE chapter at your college or high school!
Capitalism is convulsing with the greatest economic, social and political crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. All the scourges of the 20th century—mass unemployment, poverty, nationalism and the threat of world war—are once again emerging.
In America—the heart of world capitalism—shantytowns and unemployment lines have made their appearance. Millions have been laid off and go job-hunting every day to no avail. The conditions of life for masses of people are becoming intolerable.
But why should this be so? Great advances in science and technology, accompanied by an unprecedented global integration of economic life, have created the potential for a new era of human prosperity. Yet young people confront a world full of war and want, poverty and disease, and assaults on the most basic democratic freedoms.
Human progress is blocked by the capitalist system, which subordinates everything to the drive for corporate profit and the accumulation of personal wealth by the very rich. It must be done away with. The ISSE is an organization of students around the world dedicated to building a socialist movement of the working class—one that will finally realize the potential of the modern era, put an end to poverty and war, and lay the foundations for genuine human freedom.
As young people, we are the future, but we must fight for our future. Join the fight for international socialism! Join the ISSE!