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News about the ISSE at San Diego State University.

Regular meetings are Mondays at 5 p.m. in Nasatir Hall 127

=== First Meeting of the Spring 2010 Semester: Monday, January 25, 2010 (See below for details) ===

Last semester left off with large swathes of students throughout California angrily realizing that the current capitalist crisis will mean the destruction of public higher education in California.

This semester we will witness an escalation of the student opposition as more and more working class students and youth begin to fully grasp the bleak future capitalism has to offer the American working class.

The ISSE will continue to place itself at the center of the student opposition at SDSU and throughout the region. Our goal is to broaden the scope of the struggle beyond the single-issue program to defend public higher education.

With the $21 billion fiscal crisis facing the state of California, funding for public education can only be taken off the chopping block to the extent that deeper cuts can be sloughed onto other much-needed social services for the working class.

Public higher education in California will only be secured when the working class seizes the vast resources of Wall Street and the US state. The student opposition must break with the Democrats and Republicans and adopt a strategy oriented toward the working class and based on the perspective of international socialism.

There is no easy fix to the problem.

The goal of the ISSE this semester, as it has been in the past, will be to imbue the rapidly mobilizing student and worker movement with a proper sense of the stakes, as we see them. Many may feel, now more than ever, the pressure to take some sort of vague and ill-defined 'action.'

The ISSE believes, on the contrary, that now is precisely the time to redouble our efforts toward deepening our own theoretical and historical understanding of the issues at hand. Only through an assimilation of the lessons of struggles past can students and workers properly arm ourselves for the struggles to come.

For that reason we will be reading the new ISSE statement to set the tone for a discussion of the best way to approach the semester (http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/isse-j14.shtml).

Hope to see you all at the meeting. This should be quite an exciting semester!

Please, feel free to email us with questions, comments and/or concerns at isse.sdsu@gmail.com

ARTICLE IN THE DAILY AZTEC:
The rally called by the ISSE was highlighted in the Daily Aztec, SDSU's independent student paper, on Sept. 29, 2009.
Please click here or visit the link below to read the article.
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/city/group-voices-budget-concerns-1.1930214

The ISSE is enthusiastic about the turnout of the rally, and strongly feels that the rally will increase the visibility of our organization on the campus of SDSU. As was one of the central themes of the speeches at the rally, the ISSE believes that the coming period will be marked by increased mobilization of students throughout the globe, and in California in particular. The ISSE at SDSU is organizationally and theoretically poised to be the leading voice of socialism on our campus. Over the coming months we will continue to deliver the perspective of international socialism in a clear and principled manner.

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