Trump’s campaign to reopen businesses risks hundreds of thousands of lives
By the US government’s own calculations, a premature return to work could lead to 140,000 additional deaths.
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party•
Socialist Equality Party
The Socialist Equality Party is in political solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International. Our party fights to build a revolutionary leadership of the working class and to win workers in the United States to the program of socialist internationalism. To all workers fighting to defend their jobs and living conditions, to young people without a future, to the millions who are sick of endless wars, we say: This is your party! Get involved today!
Program
The Statement of Principles elaborates the basic positions of the SEP on issues such as the political independence of the working class, the nature of the capitalist crisis and the necessity for socialism, the international character of the fight for socialism, the defense of democratic rights and the struggle against militarism and war, and the significance of the fight for socialist consciousness.
This document was adopted at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party in Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 3-9, 2008. By examining the lessons of the essential historical events and political experiences of the working class and socialist movement spanning more than a century, it establishes the theoretical and political basis of the struggle for socialism today.
Organization
National Congress Resolutions
2012 Second National Congress
This document was adopted by the First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party in August 2010. It is a fighting revolutionary program for the American working class. It lays out an analysis of the global economic crisis, its political implications and the tasks of the working class.
The fight for socialism today
The coronavirus pandemic and the perspective of socialism
On Sunday, March 29, the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party held an online forum, “The COVID-19 pandemic: Capitalism and the making of a social and economic catastrophe.”
the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site•
No corporate bailouts! Direct financial resources to the working people, not the capitalist elite!
The ruling class is seeking to exploit this crisis to engineer another multitrillion-dollar redistribution of wealth, on a scale even greater than the 2008 bank bailout.
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US)•
How to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: A program of action for the working class
The essential principle that must guide the response to the crisis is that the needs of working people must take absolute and unconditional priority over all considerations of corporate profit and private wealth.
the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party (US)•
Socialist Equality Party Campaign for the 2020 US Elections
The Socialist Equality Party is standing its national secretary Joseph Kishore for president, and Norissa Santa Cruz for vice president, in the 2020 US presidential elections.
Free Julian Assange!
In this video, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Joseph Kishore demands the immediate released of class war prisoners Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange. Assange remains threatened with extradition by the Trump administration and prosecution under the Espionage Act, for having published documents exposing the war crimes of the US government and its allies.
Ken Burns’ The American Revolution
Audiences cannot help but grasp the relevance of the film’s subject—a population revolting against tyranny and despotism in the name of equality and inalienable rights.
Tom Mackaman•
Historic images of slavery removed by national parks after Trump directive
The removal of powerful Civil War era photography from public museums is the latest in a series of attacks on historical truth orchestrated by the White House.
Landon Gourov, Tom Mackaman•
The 1619 Project revisited: A retrospective evaluation in light of Trump’s assault on democracy
It is now clear that the main consequence of the 1619 Project’s attack on the American Revolution and Civil War was to disarm the population in the face of the fascist threat.
Tom Mackaman, David North•
Early voting begins in NYC mayoral primary as Cuomo and DSA member Mamdani emerge as frontrunners
The surge in support for Mamdami, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, reflects popular opposition to inequality and war, which the DSA seeks to channel back into the Democratic Party.
Sandy English, Fred Mazelis•
Tom Mackaman•
Harvey Simpkins•
Lawrence Porter•
Andrea Peters•
Landon Gourov•
The working class, the great mass of the world's population, is the revolutionary force in modern capitalist society. In the past two years, the working class has engaged in a growing number of strikes and demonstrations around the world. Repressed and dismissed for so long, the working class is beginning to assert its own independent interests. The outbreak of mass social struggles signals the beginning of a new revolutionary period.
Almost two decades after the United States launched the “war on terror,” the entire world is being dragged into an ever-expanding maelstrom of imperialist violence. Millions have been killed by the wars of US imperialism and its allies in the Middle East and Africa, and tens of millions maimed or turned into refugees. A century after the end of World War I, these conflicts are once again metastasizing toward a catastrophic global conflagration.
The ICFI is fighting to build a new international anti-war movement of the working class. The fight against war is the fight against its source, the capitalist profit system.
For the international unity of the working class
The ICFI’s program is is based on the unification of the struggles workers internationally: of all countries, nationalities, ethnicities and languages. We fight against all efforts to divide workers on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or various other identities.
The problems workers confront in every country are fundamentally the same: War, attacks on democratic rights, exploitation, unemployment, poverty and environmental destruction. They are world problems that require a global solution: Socialism.
This is the opening report delivered by David North to the 2019 International May Day Online Rally, held annually by the ICFI to celebrate the day of international working-class solidarity and rally the working class to the program of international socialism.
The levels of inequality today are virtually without precedent in history. According to Oxfam, some 26 billionaires collectively control the same amount of wealth as half the global population. In 2018, the wealth of the world’s billionaires increased by $900 billion, or 12 percent, while 3.8 billion people saw their wealth decline by 11 percent.
The growth of social inequality is the deliberate intended aim of governments throughout the world, who have single-mindedly pursued policies to enrich the corporate elite through the impoverishment of the working class.
Against fascism and authoritarianism!
Unprecedented levels of social inequality, continuous wars and the drive to great-power conflict under capitalism are incompatible with the maintenance of democratic forms of rule.
Around the world, capitalist governments are building up the state apparatus, surveillance and censorship directed at growing political and social opposition in the working class, while fascist forces are being systematically promoted.
Capitalist governments in the United States, Europe and around the world are collaborating with social media companies and technology giants to censor the Internet and block access to socialist, left-wing and progressive publications who speak for the working class.
A campaign is underway at German think-tanks, the government and political establishment, and on the universities, to promote the return of German militarism by justifying and falsifying the historic crimes of the Nazis. The Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei is leading the campaign against the return of fascism in Germany.
Around the world, capitalist governments are seeking to divert popular anger against the social crisis produced by capitalism against immigrants and refugees, the most vulnerable layers of the international working class.
The Russian Revolution marked a new stage in world history. The overthrow of the capitalist Provisional Government proved that an alternative to capitalism was not a utopian dream, but a real possibility that could be achieved through the conscious political struggle of the working class.
Trotsky founded the Fourth International in 1938 in opposition to the Stalinist degeneration of the Third International. The ICFI has defended the program and principles of genuine socialism and Trotskyism throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries.
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