International Socialist Organization (Botswana)

The International Socialists Botswana (ISBO) is a small Botswanian Trotskyist organisation. It is part of the International Socialist Tendency and produces a newspaper called Socialism from Below.

They have campaigned over workers rights, particularly the workers sacked from the Debswana mine (a DeBeers and Government of Botswana partnership). They also support the Basarwa/Bushmen in their resistance against forced relocation by the Botswana Government out of their ancestral land, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

They are the only Botswanian political group who publish a regular newspaper.

References

"Botswana Report", IST Bulletin, No.7

Political parties in Botswana

Parliamentary parties	Botswana Democratic Party Umbrella for Democratic Change (BMD BNF BPP) Botswana Congress Party

Extra-parliamentary parties	Botswana Alliance Movement New Democratic Front MELS Movement of Botswana International Socialist Organisation

Defunct parties	Botswana Workers Front United Democratic Front

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