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The group worked within the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and grew slowly. Other Independent Socialist Clubs were founded in new York, by Kim Moody, and in Chicago by former left Shachtmanites. At this time their audience was to be found in the radiclaising Students for a Democratic Society although they werea minor force within it in comparison to the various Maoist groups. none the less they grew and sonn formed a national Independent Socialist Committee, before becoming the Independent Socialists in 1969.
The IS developed links with the International Socialists in the UK, led by Tony Cliff. Some group members came to reject the theory of bureaucratic collectivism in favour of Cliff's state capitalism theory. One group of members left in 1973 to form the Revolutionary Socialist LeagueThe Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was a Trotskyist group in the United States. It was founded in 1973 by a group of International Socialists members who developed a theory that the USSR and similar societies were not as the IS held bureaucratic col around a series of disputeed questions. By 1977For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). Events January 1 First woman Episcopal priest ordained January 6 EMI sacks the Sex Pistols January 18 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious " legionnaire's disease" Januar another grouping were growing disturbed that the IS was abandoning its rank and file strategy and looked to the British International Socialists for guidance. This led to the expulsion of this group and the formation of the International Socialist OrganizationThis article is about the International Socialist Organization in the United States. See also the International Socialist Organisation (Australia) or the International Socialist Organization (New Zealand). The International Socialist Organisation ISO , is.
In common with the British IS, the group called for the formation of a rank-and-file movement in the labor unionA union labor union in American English; trade union sometimes trades union in British English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers in a partis, and as a result ordered members to take jobs in industry, a tactic known as industrialisation. Some objected, and this was a key factor in the split which produced Workers Power . However, in 19861986 is a common year starting on Wednesday. Events January January 1 Spain and Portugal enter the European Community January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles. January 9 After losing a pa, the IS agreed a more pluralist organization was required and so merged with Workers Power and Socialist UnitySocialist Unity was a a Trotskyist group in the United States. It was founded by former members of the Socialist Workers Party in 1985, around Les Evans who wanted to maintain links with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. Immediately afte to form Solidarity.