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In the weeks after the 2019 convention of the International Socialist Organization (ISO), and in the days after the revelation that members of the 2013 Steering Committee had interfered with, overturned and silenced an independent committee’s finding that an ISO member had committed rape, survivors in and around the ISO organized in solidarity with one another and to point a way forward for the left.
As survivors committed to the project of socialism from below, they have stepped in to fill vacancies in the ISO’s leadership and begin to theorize what it will take for their justice. Moreover, they say to their abusers, to rape apologists and to those who refuse to acknowledge their existence: We exist in defiance of you, and in love with ourselves.
The following statement was written by Maryam A and Nikki W of the Interim Coordinating Committee of the ISO Survivors’ Caucus.
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