Stop the UK’s winter of death! For emergency action to save lives!
It is the responsibility of the working class, organised on its own independent political programme, to put an end to the pandemic.
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Socialist Equality Party (UK)
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is the British section of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 and led today by the International Committee. The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) represents the continuity of the struggle waged by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky to forge an independent revolutionary party of the working class for the overthrow of the capitalist profit system. This heritage is outlined in The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party.
SEP (UK) Congress Resolution: “The COVID-19 pandemic, the international class struggle, and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party”
Published November 13, 2020
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For a general strike to halt the resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe!
The insistence of European governments on fully reopening schools, workplaces and public gathering places has paved the way for a devastating resurgence of the virus.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), Socialist Equality Party (UK), Parti de l’égalité socialiste (France), Sosyalist Eşitlik (Turkey)•
The working class must demand an end to the show trial of Julian Assange
Assange’s kangaroo court extradition hearing has seen the UK, which boasts of being one of the world’s oldest democracies, sink to the level of a tinpot dictatorship.
Thomas Scripps•
The Malthusian underpinnings of Boris Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy
Today the toll of the pandemic is viewed by leading figures in the ruling elite as a supposedly natural “check” on sections of the population considered a drain on profits.
Thomas Scripps•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Laura Tiernan•
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Third worker dies of COVID-19 at a Bakkavor food plant in the UK
No details were made public about the workers who died at the Tilmanstone plant.
Robert Stevens•
Over 800,000 workers fall off payrolls, as poverty rockets in Britain
Several recent reports have exposed the shocking scale of poverty in the UK, as years of austerity and attacks on workers’ living standards are being compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.
Julia Callaghan•
Reinstate London bus driver Judith Katera! For united strike action to fight victimisations!
According to workers at the Battersea depot, the former Health and Safety rep was sacked last week by Abellio after she exposed alleged fraud by a former Unite convenor who was reportedly close to management.
the London Bus Drivers Rank-and-File Safety Committee•
UK: Pandemic hits working class hardest due to deep social inequality
The “COVID-19 Marmot Review” substantiates a growing body of analysis that the disease impacts most severely on the working class.
Robert Stevens•
Thomas Scripps•
Robert Stevens•
our reporter•
Tom Pearce•
Margot Miller•
Two years since Assange was seized from the Ecuadorian Embassy
Securing Assange’s freedom is inseparable from the fight of the international working class against capitalism and the struggle to put the real criminals, the imperialist warmongers and torturers, in the dock.
Thomas Scripps•
Australian Labor leader criticises Assange’s imprisonment, privately
Albanese’s highly conditional comments, made in a closed-room caucus meeting and leaked to the press, were a cynical public relations exercise that committed Labor to nothing.
Oscar Grenfell•
Assange’s partner exposes ongoing denial of his legal and democratic rights
Assange is still being denied proper access to his lawyers and to crucial legal documents, even after a Magistrates’ Court verdict blocking his extradition to the US last month.
Oscar Grenfell•
Biden administration will continue with extradition of Julian Assange
President Biden’s Department of Justice stated on Tuesday that it will continue with the Trump administration policy of seeking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the UK to the US.
Kevin Reed•
By our correspondent•
Our reporters•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporter•
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Rioting in Northern Ireland manipulated by Stormont and Westminster
The conflicts of the past week are the deliberate outcome of a campaign led by the Democratic Unionist Party with the active support of large sections of the Tory government.
Robert Stevens•
Sturgeon’s future in jeopardy as Scottish National Party civil war intensifies
The attempt by Nicola Sturgeon’s close allies to railroad former SNP leader and Alex Salmond to jail on MeToo-inspired sex charges is backfiring spectacularly.
Steve James•
Unionists aim to break Northern Ireland protocol of Brexit agreement
The campaign by Northern Ireland unionist parties, hardline Tory Brexiteers and loyalist paramilitary groups against Britain's European Union withdrawal agreement is escalating tensions throughout Ireland.
Steve James•
UK trade hit hard as Brexit crisis deepens
Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove meets with European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič today, attempting to leverage the fallout from the EU’s aborted attempt to override the Northern Ireland protocol late last month amid ongoing vaccine trade wars.
Thomas Scripps•
Robert Stevens•
Robert Stevens•
Thomas Scripps•
Robert Stevens•
Thomas Scripps•
Johnson and Macron governments step up collaboration in persecution of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
These extremely vulnerable people are fleeing from the wars, fratricidal conflicts, and economic and ecological destruction created and exacerbated by the world’s imperialist powers, foremost in Europe by Britain and France.
Simon Whelan•
British government to deport Jamaican “foreign nationals” after fascistic campaign
The Labour MPs led by Jeremy Corbyn signing the letter of protest are only attempting to distance themselves from their party’s own anti-democratic agenda without making any real challenge to it
Thomas Scripps•
Refugees season at the Imperial War Museum in London: A century of crises, but the real causes ignored
As to the causes of the continuous refugee crises over the last century, the exhibition answers with the obvious “conflict”, “modern war”, “threats of violence” and “social breakdown” but this begs the question, what causes these phenomena?
Paul Mitchell•
Migrant friend to Julian Assange dies in UK’s Belmarsh prison
The suicide of Manoel Santos has drawn attention to the UK government’s criminal practice of holding people facing deportation in prisons, even in maximum security institutions.
Thomas Scripps•
Laura Tiernan•
Laura Tiernan•
Julia Callaghan•
Robert Stevens•
Ex-Unite activists call on London bus drivers to join RMT: From the frying pan, into the frying pan
Whether under “left-wing” or “right-wing” leadership, today’s trade unions function as corporatist partners of the employers and the state, enforcing pro-market reform against the working class.
Laura Tiernan, Michael Barnes•
UK Labour Party and Guardian back anti-China provocations
Labour has set itself as the party most committed to a confrontation with Beijing.
Julie Hyland•
UK Labour Party wades deeper into the nationalist sewer
Elected Labour leader in September 2015 on a massive wave of popular demand for socialism, Corbyn’s five years in office ended with Labour led by witch-hunters and flag-waving anti-communists.
Chris Marsden•
UK: Corbyn and Owen Jones line-up with anti-China campaign
The Labour left’s stance has nothing to do with defending the rights of Uighur Muslims, much less the super-exploited Chinese working class. It articulates the interests of a layer of the upper middle class, represented by the Labour and trade union bureaucracy, which advocate economic protectionism to defend British capitalism
Julie Hyland•
Thomas Scripps•
Julie Hyland•
Julie Hyland•
Thomas Scripps and Chris Marsden•
Robert Stevens•
Join the Socialist Equality Party
The Socialist Equality Party is the British section of the world Trotskyist movement, the International Committee of the Fourth International. The ICFI represents the continuity of the struggle waged by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky to forge an independent revolutionary party of the working class for the overthrow of the capitalist profit system.
The name Socialist Equality Party was adopted in order to reconnect the working class with the essential goal of the socialist movement since its inception—the elimination of class oppression. The SEP insists that the great problems confronting humanity in the 21st century—war, mass poverty and social inequality, the drive toward fascism and dictatorship—can only be answered through the taking of power by the working class on an international scale, and the socialist reorganization of the economy on the basis of scientific planning and genuine equality.
History
The program of the Socialist Equality Party is of a principled, not of a conjunctural and pragmatic character. It is based on an analysis of the crisis of world capitalism and an assimilation of the strategic revolutionary experiences of the working class and the international socialist movement.
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party was adopted by the Founding Congress of the SEP in 2008. It traces the historical events and strategic experiences of the working class and Marxist movement spanning more than a century.
Principles
Membership in the Socialist Equality Party is based on agreement with its Statement of Principles. The principles of the SEP incorporate the essential experiences of the revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century and the corresponding struggle waged by Marxists for the program of world socialist revolution.
Leadership
Marsden joined the Trotskyist movement in 1983 and has played a leading role in the work of the International Committee of the Fourth International for over three decades. He is also a member of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site.
Julie Hyland is the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party. She has played a leading role in the Trotskyist movement in Britain for more than three decades.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) is the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party. It fights to united students and young people for peace, equality, the rights of the working class and socialism.
