What does the Seattle International Socialist Organization stand for?
Yellesetty: Briefly put, the ISO stands for a socialist alternative to the world of growing inequality and oppression, economic and ecological crisis, and endless war. We believe that capitalism, a system driven by the interests of a wealthy minority should be replaced by democratic control by the vast majority of people who actually work to make our society run every day. Q: Precisely how would a more socialist structure work on a local government level? Yellesetty: Well the best local example would have to be the Seattle General Strike of 1919, where workers not only ground the entire city to a halt but actually began to run it for themselves. . . none of these struggles began with revolutionary aims. . We have to start from where we are, which is in the fight for basic reforms in our own interest . . . For instance, why not start with reversing the city’s current policy of closing schools and building a new jail? How about taking all the empty condos and homeless people and ending b
