Interview: ISO and left in the United States
Natalia Tylim, International Socialist Organization (ISO) participated in the XI Congress of Argentine MST. 
The we interviewed on political situation and opportunities left in the United States.
Anticapitalist Network: How would you describe the political situation in the United States?
Natalia Tylim: The political period we are going through is shaped by the economic crisis 2008. This crisis opened an era of adjustment and repression, Class polarization and oppression, and friction increasing inter-imperialist, especially between the US and China. The ruling class regained some growth, but at a huge cost for people whose work generates such growth.
All this has produced political instability in the world that has facilitated the emergence of a new right, de Trump and Le Pen, as well as a new left, in the form of broad parties like Syriza, as well as the resurgence of the British Labor Party under Corbyn. In United States, the rise of the left expressed in the insurgent campaign in the Democratic Party Sanders, which prompted a series of popular demands-from public health for all to free university education- and democratic socialism as a political perspective.
On top of this, the combination of economic recovery, the continuity of adjustment, joblessness and the growing anger of class, It has created the beginnings of a recovery in the labor movement, expressed dramatically in the wave of strikes by teachers last spring, hotel this fall and struggles against sexism impacted by the #MeToo.
AenR: What do you think of the rise of democratic socialism?
NT: Processes we spoke to have fueled the emergence of a new socialist movement. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) They have been the main beneficiaries of this new movement. DSA is now an extensive multi-trend reformer formation 50.000 members, combining activism with electoral orientation Democratic Party. Some of its current hope to reform the Democratic Party to the model Sanders, while a minority aims to use the Democratic candidates to eventually launch a new socialist party. At the same time, ISO and every socialist organization have also grown, although not at the pace that has made the DSA.
AenR: How is ISO related to this new movement?
NT: There are many new questions that come with the political period we are going through. So it is not surprising that discussions have been developed within ISO on how to build and what to do today. These discussions revolve around how to best position ourselves to define influence and strengthen the new socialist movement that runs the United States. We want to build the revolutionary wing of this new movement, from the ISO, but also with other forces and activists who are committed to this perspective.
We have entered a new and exciting phase of radicalization, with new possibilities, and also with old and new dangers. As our next debate and attempts to advance, Democratic Party leaders are also trying to consolidate the left turn in consciousness within a party 1%. There is a structural challenge facing revolutionaries in United States: the socialist awakening rises has not yet produced an alternative independent political. The issue is what strategies and tactics will be most appropriate to strengthen the activity of tens of thousands of activists who today seek a socialist alternative. ISO is an organization of about 1000 militants in a country of 300 millions. We should be modest about what we stand, but also bold about the impact we can have. The book on how to build the socialist left in the era of advanced capitalism Trump and even -we have not written the challenge of debating, discuss and navigate the new time we face.
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network
20.12.2018
