Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

Fighting the right means stopping the Iran war!

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:06:00 GMT

Saturday’s Together Alliance march in London against the far right shields Labour and blocks any effective struggle by the working class against a capitalist system hurtling to World War III.

Your Party Scotland adopts separatism

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:29:27 GMT

Your Party Scotland’s founding conference voted to create an “autonomous nation” Your Party Scotland and to campaign for Scottish separatism in upcoming elections.

Public Meeting in London: “The American Volcano: Towards Fascism or Socialism”

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:18:41 GMT

What is taking place in America is of the greatest political concern to workers and young people internationally because the US situation only reflects in the most extreme form the same global crisis gripping every other country.

Trotsky and the British General Strike of 1926

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:44:41 GMT

This is the second part of the lecture “Internationalist Socialism vs. Nationalist Reformism” delivered by Clara Weiss, Chris Marsden and Peter Symonds to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.

Questions and answers at London public meeting, “Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal”

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:44:08 GMT

Crucial issues were debated during the Q&A, including the fascist pedigree of Trump’s executive orders, the British Labour government’s authoritarian measures, the capitulation of the Corbynites, and a Marxist response to identity politics.

“Gerry Healy fought against all odds for the continuity of the Fourth International”

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:52:24 GMT

This contribution was delivered by veteran Trotskyist Barbara Slaughter to the Socialist Equality Party (UK)'s Seventh National Congress

Introduction by Thomas Scripps to resolution “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party”

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:02:19 GMT

We are publishing the speech introducing the resolution “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party” at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) given by Tom Scripps, its assistant national secretary. The resolution was passed unanimously. Scripps was re-elected to his position by the Congress.

Opening report to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:07:29 GMT

We are publishing the opening report delivered to the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) by Chris Marsden, its National Secretary. Marsden was re-elected to his position by the Congress, held November 29-December 2, 2024.

“We will redouble our efforts to build a mass campaign for Bogdan’s release”

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:56:28 GMT

We are publishing the speech delivered by Tom Scripps introducing the resolution “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk” passed unanimously at the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).

Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds its Seventh National Congress

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:09:04 GMT

The congress unanimously passed two resolutions, “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party” and “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!”, after extensive and engaged discussion. All delegates spoke with the evident benefit of the last two years of intense political activity and theoretical education.

War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:07:46 GMT

This resolution was passed unanimously at the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held November 29--December 2.

Starmer pledges UK Labour government to “drain the swamp”

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:54:54 GMT

His speech did more than regurgitate the Thatcherite nostrums of Tony Blair’s New Labour. It confirmed that there is no limit to the lurch rightwards of Starmer’s declared “party of NATO”, of Zionism and the most “business friendly government” in British history.

Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:12:07 GMT

This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.

Build the socialist opposition to Starmer’s right-wing government!

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:36:26 GMT

Keir Starmer owes his “landslide” victory entirely to the hatred of the Tories, the thoroughly undemocratic first-past-the-post system, and the fact that widespread left-wing sentiment has found no organised socialist expression.

Socialist Equality Party’s Joseph Kishore and Tom Scripps speak at Marx’s grave in London

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:11:15 GMT

Joseph Kishore and Thomas Scripps visited the grave of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery, London this week.

SEP (UK) candidate Tom Scripps speaks at Palestine Solidarity Campaign hustings

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:52:50 GMT

Scripps explained that he would be presenting “my party’s programme, not simply for Holborn and St Pancras, not simply for the election, but for the international working class and oppressed peoples of the world in a period of history characterised by the descent into war, genocide, poverty and dictatorship.”

Attendees at UK general election rally speak: “The Socialist Equality Party is what I want to dedicate my efforts to building.”

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:12:29 GMT

WSWS reporters spoke to some of those in attendance on their response to the Socialist Equality Party (UK) general election rally held in London on Sunday.

UK Socialist Equality Party election rally advances socialist and internationalist opposition to war

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:05:35 GMT

The meeting’s platform featured many of the principal leaders of the party that the working class needs in the battles ahead—the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.

Why is the Socialist Equality Party standing against Andrew Feinstein?

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:26:04 GMT

Feinstein wants workers in Britain to repeat, under a rerun of Corbyn’s disastrous leadership of the Labour Party, the bitter experience of creating “broad left” formations such as Syriza in Greece that sabotaged the struggle against International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union dictated austerity.

Zero Hour environmental campaign group bars SEP candidate Tom Scripps from election hustings

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:41:48 GMT

The event was billed as “an important democratic opportunity for voters to understand their local candidates’ views on climate change and the environment.” The SEP was never informed of the hustings and Zero Hour did not openly announce that certain candidates had been excluded.

Billions for education not war! Support the Socialist Equality Party (UK) campaign for a unified struggle against capitalism and war!

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:10:21 GMT

Teachers in the UK must prepare to take on Labour as it prepares to take office. This requires a break from the trade union bureaucracy whose function, in order to secure their privileged existence, is to block the development of a struggle in defence of educators’ independent interests.

Socialist Equality Party candidate Darren Paxton speaks at Inverness Trades Council general election hustings

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:04:02 GMT

Apart from a passing reference by the Scottish National Party to ceasefire calls, Paxton was the only candidate to even mention Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rapidly escalating war in Ukraine against Russia.

Socialist Equality Party candidate Darren Paxton meets warm response in Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:21:42 GMT

Campaign teams for SEP parliamentary candidate Darren Paxton have held many conversations around Inverness on the Gaza genocide, the danger of war and the shift to the right in official politics

Socialist Equality Party wins warm response in Holborn and St Pancras, London

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:26:08 GMT

“We have to fight the capitalist ruling class which is waging the war against the Palestinians, and now they’re trying to attack Iran and Russia.”

Socialist Equality Party June 30 London election rally features international speakers

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:31:09 GMT

US Presidential candidate Joseph Kishore and leading European Trotskyists Alex Lantier and Christoph Vandreier will join SEP candidates Tom Scripps and Darren Paxton to discuss the international struggle against capitalism, genocide and war and for socialism.

Students support SEP’s Tom Scripps at Westminster Kingsway College hustings: “We deserve to live in a world with no war”

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:12:59 GMT

Scripps was one of six candidates in Holborn and St Pancras who spoke. Afterwards, the World Socialist Web Site interviewed students on their response.

Socialist Equality Party general election candidate Tom Scripps wins support at Westminster Kingsway College hustings in London

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:45:14 GMT

To sustained applause and cheering, Scripps concluded, “The SEP is fighting to mobilise a mass socialist anti-war movement and to build a socialist alternative to the Labour Party.”

Audience member speaks about SEP candidate Tom Scripps at London hustings

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:04:42 GMT

Following Monday’s hustings event in Camden, London, addressed by SEP candidate Tom Scripps, the WSWS spoke to a member of the audience, Vilma.

Socialist Equality Party candidate Tom Scripps speaks at London hustings

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:00:00 GMT

“We’re standing to fight for a different, socialist strategy—one that is based on mobilising the international working class in a struggle against war and the imperialist powers.”

The issues facing Scottish workers and young people in the UK General Election

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:15:17 GMT

My party’s aim is to mobilise the working class across the UK and internationally against the genocide in Gaza, the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, the destruction of living standards and democratic rights, and environmental collapse.

“Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!”—Leading SEP (UK) member addresses meeting in Australia

Fri, 31 May 2024 04:13:53 GMT

“In acting to oppose Assange’s persecution, you are stepping into the titanic storm now blowing through world politics; you are coming up against fundamental class interests and imperialist objectives.”

Intense discussions at UK public meetings on “How can the genocide in Gaza be stopped?”

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 20:06:10 GMT

The meetings provoked an important dialogue on Gaza and the broader question of building a socialist leadership in the working class.

Socialist Equality Party/International Youth and Students for Social Equality UK public meetings: How can the genocide in Gaza be stopped?

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:53:41 GMT

The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and International Youth and Students for Social Equality has called a series of public meetings headed How can the genocide in Gaza be stopped?

“When I think of the party in America, I think of Helen”

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:52:18 GMT

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Laura Tiernan, a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party in Britain and writer for the World Socialist Web Site.

“Helen profoundly influenced the character of the party in the US and internationally”

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:33:39 GMT

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Julie Hyland, a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and for many years the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).

This Saturday: Public meeting in London, UK to mark the Centenary of Trotskyism

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:14:12 GMT

The meeting on Saturday November 18 at 1.30pm will be addressed by David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.

Public meeting in London to mark the Centenary of Trotskyism

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:28:28 GMT

Raac concrete scandal shows Britain is collapsing: Fight for safe schools, hospitals and social housing!

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:39:12 GMT

The Raac scandal underscores the scale of social vandalism in a society run as a feeding trough for super-rich parasites, fuelled by the exploitation of the working class.

UK: Rail workers union leader Mick Lynch announces de facto end of industrial action

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:45:14 GMT

The RMT is effectively ruling out any industrial action “until the outcome and determination from the ticket office closures consultation has been provided by the Government”, scheduled for December 1, 2023, and with a cooling off period after that.

The fight against British imperialism and world war must be based on the working class

Mon, 08 May 2023 02:41:49 GMT

This speech was delivered by Tom Scripps, the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), at the 2023 International May Day Online Rally.

The mass strike movement, war and the revolutionary crisis in Europe

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 04:53:15 GMT

What is emerging across Europe is an objectively revolutionary situation. The alternatives are as starkly posed as they were at the outbreak of World War I, over a century ago. Either the capitalist class plunges Europe and the world into a global war between nuclear-armed states, or the working class takes power out of the hands of the warmongering ruling elites.

UK: A socialist strategy to defeat the anti-strike laws

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:09:11 GMT

The trade unions have not organised a single day of strike action against the greatest threat to workers’ democratic rights ever mounted, urging workers to rely instead on a future Starmer-led Labour government.

Build the Assange defence campaign in the working class!

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:42:19 GMT

The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution states, “The international working class must take the lead in the fight to free Assange. It is the sole constituency for the defence of democratic rights, and it alone has the power to wrest the WikiLeaks founder from his captors.”

Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees in Britain! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:02:41 GMT

The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), is the democratic organ of international working-class struggle in the 21st century.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:50:32 GMT

The Socialist Equality Party (UK) Congress resolution explains: "The two alternatives posed before mankind are either unending mass infection, debilitation and death, or the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and implementation of a policy of global elimination, to end all human-to-human transmission of COVID-19."

The escalating class struggle in Britain and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:59:43 GMT

British and world capitalism faces an economic, social and political crisis that increasingly assumes revolutionary dimensions.

Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds Sixth National Congress

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:12:50 GMT

The party’s sixth congress was held under conditions of an extraordinary political, economic and social crisis gripping British and world capitalism.

As UK strike wave grows: Break the grip of the trade union bureaucracy! For rank-and-file committees in every workplace!

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:19:55 GMT

The fundamental issue that must be confronted is the role of the trade unions in suppressing a unified industrial and political offensive that is needed to defeat the Tories’ class war onslaught.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II: A major political crisis for British imperialism

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:13:06 GMT

With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the British ruling class has lost its popular head of state on which it has relied to project the myth of national unity and suppress social conflict.

The case for a general election: Expose the Tory-Labour conspiracy to drag Britain into World War III!

Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:34:37 GMT

A general election must be used to alert and mobilise the working class against the catastrophic policies of the Tory government and its de facto coalition party headed by Sir Keir Starmer.