International Socialist Organisation (Australia)
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This article is about the International Socialist Organisation in Australia. See also the International Socialist Organization.
The International Socialist Organisation is an Australian Trotskyist political organisation. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency and produces a newpaper called Socialist Worker.
It was founded in the early 1970s and expanded from its initial base in Melbourne until it had branches in every major city. It has had a lively internal life and saw a breakaway faction in the 1980s called Socialist Action led by Tom O'Lincoln which later rejoined the IS. At this point they changed their name to the ISO.
More recently they have experienced major internal schisms. This led to the loss of a members, mainly but not exclusively in Melbourne, who founded Socialist Alternative in 1995. In 2003 another grouping of members around former leader Ian Rintoul split from the ISO eventually to form the Socialist Action group. Somewhat prior to this Tom O'Lincoln also left to join joined Socialist Alternative. The ISO is a part of the Socialist Alliance.
External links
- ISO Australia (http://www.iso.org.au)