SEP (US) 2008 Election Campaign

Obama’s response to financial meltdown: Deception and subservience to Wall Street

By Bill Van Auken, SEP vice presidential candidate, September 19, 2008

As hundreds of millions of people in the US and around the world confront the onset of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with all of its implications for their jobs, ...

SEP presidential candidate speaks on financial crisis

September 19, 2008

Jerry White, presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party, spoke today on moves by the Federal Reserve to bail out Wall Street speculators while workers face deepening hardship.

Socialist Equality Party launches new election web site

By our reporter, September 18, 2008

The Socialist Equality Party in the United States is launching a new web site that will coordinate its election campaign and serve as a center for organizing other party activities. The web site addre...

No return to the 1930s! For the public ownership of the banks!

By SEP presidential candidate Jerome White, September 17, 2008

The bankruptcy of Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers and the forced take over of Merrill Lynch are the latest demonstrations of the collapse of American capitalism. All the lies and propaganda about the...

Reject Obama and McCain! Support the socialist alternative in 2008! Build the Socialist Equality Party!

By the Socialist Equality Party, September 13, 2008

The Socialist Equality Party announces today that it has selected Jerome White and Bill Van Auken as president and vice president in the 2008 US elections. White, 49, and Van Auken, 58, have decades o...

Australia: The 2008 Victorian teachers’ dispute, Teachers Alliance and the Socialist Equality Party

By Patrick O’Connor and Will Marshall, September 12, 2008

The World Socialist Web Site is publishing an interview with Mary Merkenich, a leading member of the Teachers Alliance organisation, on the recent struggle waged by Victorian public school teachers fo...

September 4, 2008

Today ---------- 21 January 1999

Australian teachers’ union conference: bureaucrats block fight against Labor

By Erika Zimmer, August 15, 2008

The New South Wales Teachers Federation (NSWTF), a union with some 60,000 members, held its annual conference last month, the first since the election of the Rudd government last November. While NSWTF...

Haltemprice & Howden by-election

Britain: Election official rejects complaint about missing SEP ballots

By Chris Talbot, August 4, 2008

The official in charge of counting the votes in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election has refused to take any action over missing Socialist Equality Party ballot papers following a letter of complain...

WSWS speaks to Sri Lankan workers about general strike

By our correspondents, July 12, 2008

During Thursday’s general strike in Sri Lanka, WSWS teams spoke to workers in the capital Colombo, the city of Kandy, the towns of Hatton and Bandarawela in the central plantation districts and ...

Britain: SEP candidate Chris Talbot speaks at eve-of-poll meeting

By our reporters, July 11, 2008

The Socialist Equality held an eve-of-poll meeting at Cottingham Civic Hall on July 9, as part of its campaign in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election. The election was forced by the resignation of ...

Britain: Socialist Equality Party and Greens banned from David Davis eve-of-poll meeting on democratic rights

By Richard Tyler, July 10, 2008

Members and supporters of both the Socialist Equality Party and the Green Party were excluded from a public meeting yesterday organised by David Davis on the eve of the Haltemprice and Howden by-elect...