What are you discounting? The ISO themselves admit that they had two of their people in the national leadership of the student anti-sweatshop movement at one time. The student anti-sweatshop movement wasa big priority for the ISO, at least on campus before Seattle. I also recalle reading several accounts of a rather contentious national conference of that movement where there was a split between the folks who wanted a hierarchical national organization and those who wanted a network.
The ISO involvement in the student anti-war movement in late 2001 blew up in their faces when student activists discovered that the ISO had organized a bunch of regional conferences and has placed several of their members in position to lead and/or facilitate these regional gatherings.
I'm sure that student activists can fill you in on the rest of the details. That's the little bit I know.
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