SEP (US) 2008 Election Campaign
The Wall Street bailout and the threat of dictatorship
By Bill Van Auken, Socialist Equality Party vice presidential candidate, October 2, 2008
Recriminations have continued to reverberate internationally over the vote in the US House of Representatives Monday to reject a $700 billion bailout package for the Wall Street banks.
Public meetings in UK and Germany
SEP candidate Jerry White to speak on crisis of US and world capitalism
October 1, 2008
The presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, Jerry White, will speak at a series of meetings next month in Britain and Germany.
Arrested SEP member speaks to the WSWS following his release
By Nanda Wickramesinghe, October 1, 2008
Speaking to the WSWS, Kamalthasan explained the circumstances of his arrest: “We had sufficient legal documents to prove our identity even according to the government’s rules... There were...
The Democratic Party and Wall Street
By Barry Grey, October 1, 2008
The role of the Democratic Party in promoting the plan devised by the Bush administration and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to bail out Wall Street has exposed the real social interests that this p...
Stocks plunge on Wall Street as bailout fails in Congress
By Bill Van Auken, Socialist Equality Party vice presidential candidate, September 30, 2008
Wall Street suffered its biggest one-day point fall in history amid panic selling, as the proposed government bailout of the major banks and finance houses went down to defeat Monday in the US House o...
Democrats take charge of pushing through Bush’s bailout of Wall Street
By Barry Grey, September 29, 2008
Democratic congressional leaders held a press conference late Sunday afternoon to announce agreement on a bill to hand over more than $700 billion in taxpayer funds to US banks and finance houses and ...
Democrats push for quick adoption of Bush plan to bail out Wall Street
By Barry Grey, September 26, 2008
The turn of events at the White House summit announced Wednesday night by President Bush and held Thursday to press for bipartisan agreement on his plan for a bailout of Wall Street has underscored th...
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White addresses ISSE meeting at the University of Michigan
By our reporter, September 26, 2008
On September 24, SEP presidential candidate Jerry White spoke on the financial crisis at a well-attended public meeting at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The meeting was the first in a serie...
Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles
September 25, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party (US) today begins publication of the documents from its founding Congress, starting with the first part of the SEP Statement of Principles. The Statement of Principles was...
SEP election meetings
The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
September 24, 2008
Between now and Election Day, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White and vice presidential candidate Bill Van Auken will speak at a series of meetings throughout the country.
SEP presidential candidate denounces Wall Street bailout
September 22, 2008
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate denounces Wall Street bailout and the support for it given by the Democratic Party. Jerry White declares that working people are being forced to pay the...
No to Wall Street bailout! The socialist answer to the financial crisis
By Socialist Equality Party National Committee, September 22, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party and its presidential and vice presidential candidates, Jerome White and Bill Van Auken, unequivocally oppose the plan to bail out Wall Street with hundreds of billions of ...
