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International Youth and Students for Social Equality


We are the student and youth movement of the world Trotskyist movement. All the great problems confronting humanity in the 21st century -- war, poverty, climate change, authoritarianism -- are the outcome of capitalism and can only be addressed through socialist revolution led by the world working class.

To fight for socialism today, young people must understand the history of struggles of the working class in the 20th century. To build a global movement against imperialist war, the IYSSE is educating youth in the history and principles of Trotskyism, the Marxism of the 21st century.

Aims:

  • As the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party, the Australian section of the world Trotskyist movement, the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), the IYSSE aims to educate students in the program and principles of the ICFI.
  • The IYSSE seeks to develop an international anti-war movement among students and young people, that will fight to mobilise the working class in Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region in a unified struggle against the US-led pivot to Asia and the preparations for war against China.
  • The IYSSE will provide students with an understanding of the lessons of the strategic historical experiences of the working class throughout the 20th Century, most importantly, the political and theoretical struggles against those tendencies that broke from the Fourth International and then the ICFI on the basis of a rejection of its program and principles.
  • To promote the intellectual traditions of classical Marxism associated with the names of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg and Trotsky, against the theories of the Frankfurt School, postmodernism and identity politics.
  • To sponsor regular forums discussing the daily political analysis of the World Socialist Web Site, the Internet site of the ICFI, dealing with Marxist philosophy, global politics, economics, history, science and the arts.

Mailbox 113
Level 4, Building 168
University of Melbourne VIC 3010