SEP (US) 2008 Election Campaign
Sri Lanka: Plantation unions accept wage sell-out
By M. Vasanthan, October 28, 2009
All the plantation unions, including those that initially opposed it, have effectively fallen into line behind a deal that binds workers to poverty-level wages and productivity speed-up for the next t...
Sri Lankan provincial election
SEP campaigns among Free Trade Zone workers
By Panini Wijesiriwardena, September 19, 2009
As part of its campaign for the Southern Provincial Council elections on October 10, the SEP spoke to workers from the Koggala Free Trade Zone near Galle. The SEP is standing a slate of 26 candidates ...
Mass abstention in Detroit mayoral elections
SEP candidate wins significant vote
By Jack Cody and Jerry White, August 6, 2009
Less than 17 percent of eligible voters participated in Tuesday’s primary election in Detroit in a sign of popular disaffection with the political system. The only mayoral candidate addressing the n...
SEP campaigns among Sri Lankan rubber plantation workers
By Sampath Perera, April 1, 2009
As a part of its campaign for provincial elections in Sri Lanka, a Socialist Equality Party team visited rubber plantation workers in the Puwakpitiya estates.
Sri Lankan election: SEP campaigns among railway workers
By W.A. Sunil, March 30, 2009
As a part of its campaign for the Colombo district in the Western Provincial Council election, the Socialist Equality Party visited the quarters of railway workers in Ratmalana—a major industrial zo...
Sri Lankan parliament passes power reform bill
By W.A. Sunil, March 12, 2009
The Sri Lankan government pushes through the Electricity Bill on March 3, paving the way for private firms, co-operatives and local government bodies to compete with the state-owned Ceylon Electricity...
Notes on the political and economic crisis of the world capitalist system
Perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in 2009
By David North and Joseph Kishore, January 13, 2009
This report was delivered to a Midwest aggregate meeting of the Socialist Equality Party held January 10 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. David North is the national chairman of the SEP. Joseph Kishore is the ...
Sri Lankan SEP stands in provincial elections to oppose war and attacks on democratic rights
By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), January 10, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka is contesting two provincial council elections to be held on February 14. In opposition to all other political parties, the SEP candidates will emphatic...
Recession in New Zealand deepens
By Tom Peters and Rick Wilson, January 8, 2009
Despite media praise lavished on a late December retail “boom”, New Zealand’s economy shrank for the third consecutive quarter in the three months to September.
Steiner, Brenner and Neo-Marxism: The Marcusean Component
By Adam Haig, January 2, 2009
As a supporter of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) who has been following the political and philosophical charges of Alex Steiner and Frank Brenner, the author of this pa...
Canada: “Progressive coalition” rallies fail to denounce constitutional coup
By Carl Bronski and Eric Marquis, December 10, 2008
At rallies in Toronto and Montreal last Saturday, supporters of a Liberal-NDP coalition government refused to denounce last week’s constitutional coup facilitated by the archaic office of the govern...
Australia: The DSP split and Socialist Alliance—another opportunist debacle
By Laura Tiernan, December 6, 2008
Six months after a devastating split in the Democratic Socialist Perspective, the 6th national conference of Socialist Alliance this weekend will provide further proof of the crisis gripping the DSP a...
