US Socialist Equality Party
D'Artagnan Collier, David Walsh speak in defense of the DIA and culture as a social right
By Bryan Dyne, 15 June 2013
Collier and Walsh discussed the defense of culture as part of a program and perspective for the working class.
D'Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for Detroit mayor, speaks on the social crisis in Detroit
By Bryan Dyne, 1 June 2013
D'Artagnan Collier advanced a program and perspective for the working class of Detroit to fight back against the cuts and privatizations happening in the city.
Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier campaigns at Eastern Market
By Thomas Gaist, 20 May 2013
Collier spoke to workers and youth about his mayoral campaign, the fight against the emergency manager and the conditions facing Detroiters.
Workers must reject emergency manager’s plan for Detroit
By D’Artagnan Collier—Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor, 20 May 2013
The Socialist Equality Party candidate for mayor of Detroit is calling on the city’s working class to reject the economic plan put forward by the city’s emergency manager, Kevyn Orr.
SEP mayoral candidate outlines socialist program at Detroit election forum
By Thomas Gaist, 18 May 2013
D’Artagnan Collier, the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for Detroit mayor, spoke at a mayoral forum on the emergency manager, the social crisis in Detroit and the way forward for the working class.
SEP Detroit mayoral campaign wins support from workers
By Shannon Jones, 13 May 2013
D’Artagnan Collier joined an SEP campaign team Saturday at Detroit’s Eastern Market.
Campaign teams for D’Artagnan Collier exceed signature goal in Detroit mayoral race
By an SEP campaign team, 6 May 2013
Campaigners for D’Artagnan Collier, the Socialist Equality candidate for mayor of Detroit, have exceeded their signature goal to put Collier on the ballot.
Stop the mass evictions in Detroit!
By D’Artagnan Collier—Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor, 3 May 2013
The following statement was issued by SEP Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier to oppose the eviction of 300 tenants of the Henry Street apartments in Cass Corridor.
Public meeting in Portland: American democracy in shambles
1 May 2013
Announcement of Portland meeting
Campaigners for D’Artagnan Collier near signature goal in Detroit mayoral race
By an SEP campaign team, 29 April 2013
Supporters of the Socialist Equality Party have collected close to the 1,000 signature goal to place Collier on the ballot for Detroit mayor.
SEP campaigns to put D’Artagnan Collier on the ballot for Detroit mayor
By an SEP campaign team, 27 April 2013
SEP supporters campaigned throughout the week to put D’Artagnan Collier on the Detroit mayoral ballot, collecting petition signatures at many locations around Detroit.
SEP mayoral campaign in Detroit wins strong support in first week
By Lawrence Porter, 24 April 2013
The campaign to place D’Artagnan Collier, a city worker and member of the Socialist Equality Party, on the ballot for mayor of Detroit has gotten off to a strong start.
Support D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for mayor of Detroit!
Throw out the emergency manager! End the bankers’ dictatorship in Detroit!
By Socialist Equality Party (US), 19 April 2013
The Socialist Equality Party (US) is running D’Artagnan Collier as its candidate for mayor of Detroit. The following is his statement announcing the campaign.
Wayne State University IYSSE holds meeting opposing financial dictatorship in Detroit
By Bryan Dyne, 6 April 2013
SEP National Secretary Joseph Kishore spoke to an audience of students, retirees and workers at a public meeting called to oppose the appointment of a financial manager in Detroit.
World Socialist Web Site 15th Anniversary Meeting in Detroit
Mobilizing the working class against the bankers’ dictatorship
1 April 2013
We call on workers and young people throughout the region to attend this important April 14 meeting on the 15th anniversary of the WSWS
No to all school closures! Unite the working class to defend public education!
By the Socialist Equality Party, 27 March 2013
This statement is being distributed at a demonstration of Chicago teachers today.
Detroit teachers and city workers:
Reject the concessions contracts! Mobilize against financial dictatorship in Detroit!
By the Socialist Equality Party, 22 March 2013
This statement is being distributed to Detroit teachers and workers at the Water and Sewerage Department, voting on contracts today.
SEP holds public meeting on Stockton, California bankruptcy
By Eric London, 19 January 2013
With a population of 300,000, Stockton is the largest city in the United States to file for bankruptcy in recent years.
A new “irrepressible conflict”
SEP holds post-election meeting in New York
By our reporters, 19 November 2012
The public meeting focused on the significance of the elections and the measures taken by the Obama administration immediately afterward.
SEP publishes 2012 perspectives resolution in Spanish
10 November 2012
The Socialist Equality Party is publishing the Spanish translation of the main resolution adopted unanimously by the Second National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held July 8-12, 2012.
Resolution of the SEP Conferences
Build the Socialist Equality Party!
5 November 2012
This is an edited version of a resolution passed at the Socialist Equality Party regional conferences in California and Michigan.
The two paths open to Chicago teachers
By Socialist Equality Party, 19 September 2012
This statement was distributed outside of the Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates meeting on Tuesday, called to decide whether to continue the strike.
This deal is not what the strike was about!
By Socialist Equality Party, 17 September 2012
This statement was distributed to Chicago teachers attending a delegates meeting to decide on whether or not the strike of 26,000 teachers should be ended.
An appeal from SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore
14 September 2012
SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore asks readers to support the WSWS
Film showings and lectures by David North
The historical significance and enduring political relevance of the 1917 Russian Revolution
10 September 2012
In this series of meetings in the US, Socialist Equality Party National Chairman David North will introduce showings of Tsar to Lenin with a lecture on the Russian Revolution.
Resolutions of the SEP (US) National Congress
Perspectives of the Socialist Equality Party
4 September 2012
Published here are the resolutions adopted by the Second National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held July 8-12, 2012.
Resolutions of the SEP (US) National Congress
The Organization of the Working Class and the Fight for Socialism
1 September 2012
Published here is the third resolution adopted unanimously by the Second National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held July 8-12, 2012.
Resolutions of the SEP (US) National Congress
On the 2012 Election and the SEP Campaign
31 August 2012
Published here is the second resolution adopted unanimously by the Second National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held July 8-12, 2012.
Resolutions of the SEP (US) National Congress
Perspectives of the Socialist Equality Party
30 August 2012
Published here is the main resolution adopted unanimously by the Second National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held July 8-12, 2012.
Socialist Equality Party (US) holds National Congress
30 August 2012
The SEP National Congress adopted a series of resolutions on the world economic and political situation and the perspectives and tasks of the party.
Ruth Keedy Benjamin (June 4, 1947—June 29, 2012)
18 July 2012
On June 29, Ruth Keedy Benjamin, a member of the American Trotskyist movement for over 40 years, succumbed to pancreatic cancer.
The way forward for the Quebec student strike
By Socialist Equality Party, 22 June 2012
This statement will be distributed at a mass rally of students and workers today.
Reject the concessions contract at Caterpillar!
By Socialist Equality Party, 30 May 2012
This leaflet is being distributed at a meeting Wednesday to vote on a tentative agreement in the strike by machinists at the Caterpillar plant in Joliet, Illinois.
David North speaks in defense of Leon Trotsky at Cornell University
By Tom Mackaman, 3 May 2012
Socialist Equality Party National Chairman David North spoke to an overflow crowd at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in defense of Leon Trotsky against attacks by academic historians.
Jerry White demands end to government repression of Sri Lankan SEP
By our reporter, 15 February 2012
The SEP’s candidate for US president issued the following statement demanding an end to the Rajapaske government’s campaign of intimidation against the SEP in Sri Lanka.
Jerry White campaigns in Detroit against school closings
By our reporter, 14 February 2012
On his first day of public campaigning, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White spoke with students and parents at Kettering High School in Detroit, one of more than a dozen public schools threatened with closure.
SEP Presidential candidate Jerry White to speak in Detroit Thursday evening: “Oppose Detroit budget cuts!”
14 February 2012
SEP Presidential candidate Jerry White will be the featured speaker at a public meeting Thursday evening called to plan and organize a fight-back against the latest attacks on the jobs, wages and benefits of the working class in Detroit.
Vote Socialist Equality in 2012!
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president
By Jerry White, 13 February 2012
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president
SEP/CAUS public meeting: Oppose Detroit budget cuts!
11 February 2012
The Socialist Equality Party, Committee Against Utility Shutoffs and International Students for Social Equality are holding a public meeting on February 16 to plan and organize a fight back against the latest attack on the jobs, wages and benefits of the working class in Detroit.
SEP and CAUS hold meeting to oppose Detroit budget cuts
By Shannon Jones, 19 December 2011
The Socialist Equality Party and the Committee Against Utility Shutoffs held a public meeting December 17 in Detroit to begin the political fight back against the attack on the working class, in the Detroit area and throughout Michigan.
Socialist Equality Party and Committee Against Utility Shutoffs
Emergency Meeting: Stop Detroit Budget Cuts! Billions for jobs, education and housing!
2 December 2011
This meeting is being called to initiate a fight back against the budget cuts and city worker layoffs being demanded by Detroit Mayor David Bing.
Labor Day 2011: The failure of capitalism and the Obama administration
By Socialist Equality Party, 5 September 2011
The working class must break with the Democratic Party and build a mass movement for a socialist solution to the deepening economic crisis.
SEP/ISSE holds meeting to oppose closure of Catherine Ferguson Academy
By Shannon Jones, 16 June 2011
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Students for Social Equality held a June 14 meeting in Detroit to oppose the closure of Catherine Ferguson Academy.
Defend Catherine Ferguson Academy!
Unite all sections of the working class! Public education is a social right!
By Socialist and International Students for Social Equality, 10 June 2011
Students, teachers, parents and the working class as a whole must mobilize to reject the closure of Catherine Ferguson Academy.
Education is a social right! Unite teachers, students and workers against all cuts!
By Socialist and International Students for Social Equality, 12 May 2011
This statement will be distributed by supporters of the SEP and ISSE at rallies of teachers Friday in California to oppose attacks on public education.
The Fight for Socialism Today: Conference resolutions
The attack on the working class and the fight for socialism
5 May 2011
The World Socialist Web Site is beginning publication of the resolutions discussed and adopted at the three regional conferences in the US on The Fight for Socialism Today.
The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in New York City
By Sandy English, 2 May 2011
On Saturday, April 30, over 70 people attended the Fight for Socialism Today conference at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City.
The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in Los Angeles
By Tom Carter, 18 April 2011
The SEP, the ISSE and the World Socialist Web Site held in Los Angeles the second of three national conferences, The Fight for Socialism Today, on Saturday.
Greetings from Indianapolis auto worker to Fight For Socialism Today conference
13 April 2011
The following message of support was sent to the Ann Arbor conference from an Indianapolis auto worker who played a leading role in the fight against wage cutting by GM and the UAW.
The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in Ann Arbor
By Tom Eley and Tobin Reese, 11 April 2011
The SEP, the ISSE and the World Socialist Web Site held in Ann Arbor the first of three national conferences, The Fight for Socialism Today, over the weekend.
Reject the AFL-CIO and Democratic Party
For a new strategy to defend the social rights of the working class
By Socialist Equality Party, 4 April 2011
Supporters of the SEP are distributing the following statements at the “We Are One” demonstrations organized by the AFL-CIO in Madison, Wisconsin and other locations in the US.
WSWS posts program of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish
El derrumbe del capitalismo y la lucha por el socialismo en EE.UU
24 December 2010
The World Socialist Web Site today continues the publication of the program of the Socialist Equality Party, The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the United States—El derrumbe del capitalismo y la lucha por el socialismo en EE.UU. in Spanish.
Break with Obama and the Democrats
Build a socialist movement against mass unemployment and war
By Socialist and International Students for Social Equality, 30 October 2010
The following leaflet will be distributed to participants at the October 30 “Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington DC called by comedian Jon Stewart.
Break with Obama, the Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO
Build a socialist movement against mass unemployment, war and repression
By Socialist and International Students for Social Equality, 2 October 2010
The following leaflet will be distributed to participants at a rally on October 2, in Washington, DC, organized by the AFL-CIO and sections of the Democratic Party, under the slogan, “One Nation Working Together: For Jobs, Justice and Education for All.”
SEP publishes program: “The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the US”
30 September 2010
The SEP in the US has published a printed version of its program, including graphs and illustrations. The program was adopted at the First National Congress in August 2010.
The way forward for Indianapolis GM workers
By Socialist Equality Party, 28 September 2010
This statement was distributed to auto workers attending a rally in Indianapolis on September 25.
Democratic administration pushes ahead with Detroit downsizing
By a reporting team, 22 September 2010
Thousands of Detroit residents turned out for public hearings on the downsizing of the city being proposed by Mayor David Bing in the interests of big business.
SEP Public Meetings: The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the US
21 September 2010
The Socialist Equality Party is holding a series of meetings throughout the US to introduce its program.
The First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
By Joseph Kishore, 6 September 2010
The Socialist Equality Party (US) held its First National Congress on August 11-15, 2010. The meeting was a milestone in the fight waged by the SEP and the International Committee of the Fourth International for a socialist movement of the working class
The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the United States
Program of the Socialist Equality Party
6 September 2010
The following document was adopted by the First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 11-15, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Breakdown of Capitalism and the fight for Socialism in the United States
Program of the Socialist Equality Party
4 September 2010
The following document was adopted by the First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 11-15, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The document is being published in three parts
The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the United States
Program of the Socialist Equality Party Part two
3 September 2010
The following document was adopted by the First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 11-15, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The document is being published in three parts.
The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the United States
Program of the Socialist Equality Party
2 September 2010
The following document was adopted by the First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 11-15, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The document is being published in three parts.
Resolution of the Socialist Equality Party Congress
Twenty-Five Years Since the Split with the Workers Revolutionary Party
30 August 2010
This resolution on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the split between the International Committee of the Fourth International and the British Workers Revolutionary Party was passed unanimously by the first regular National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 11-15, 2010.
Resolution of the Socialist Equality Party Congress
On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
20 August 2010
This resolution on the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky was passed unanimously by the first regular National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 11-15, 2010.
SEP candidate campaigns in Detroit against utility shutoffs
By a reporting team, 17 August 2010
D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for the Michigan State House of Representatives 9th District, spoke to area residents about utility shutoffs.
Socialist Equality Party holds public meetings in New Orleans, Mobile
By a WSWS reporting team, 9 August 2010
The Socialist Equality Party held two public meetings in the Gulf Coast last week, centering on the political implications of the BP oil spill.
SEP public meetings in New Orleans and Mobile
The Gulf oil disaster and capitalism
21 July 2010
The SEP will hold public meetings in the US Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Alabama in early August to discuss the causes and consequences of the BP oil spill disaster.
Greetings and report from the US SEP to conferences in Australia
American capitalism’s decline and the tasks of the working class
By Jerry White, 16 July 2010
Jerry White delivered the following report to conferences on “The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism,” convened by the SEP and the International Students for Social Equality in Sydney and Melbourne.
The political struggle to defend public education
By Socialist Equality Party, 24 June 2010
Supporters of the SEP are distributing this statement to teachers who are protesting budget cuts, layoffs and privatization today in the Michigan capital of Lansing.
The Gulf oil spill and the case for socialism
By Jerry White, 8 June 2010
The ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the US government’s complicity and impotence in relation to energy giant BP reveals in the most striking manner the irrationality and socially destructive character of the capitalist system.
New York and New Jersey workers face unprecedented cutbacks
By Socialist Equality Party, 22 May 2010
The attacks on teachers and other public employees in the states of New York and New Jersey are part of an unprecedented assault on jobs, pensions, wages, benefits and seniority rights being mounted by both Democrats and Republicans in the name of balancing state budgets.
CAUS denounces police murder of Aiyana Jones
By Committee Against Utility Shutoffs (CAUS), 19 May 2010
The Committee Against Utility Shutoffs condemns the police murder of seven-year-old Aiyana Jones and demands that all those responsible for her death be held legally responsible
Break with the Democrats and Republicans! For an independent socialist movement of the working class!
22 April 2010
This resolution on war was passed unanimously at the SEP Emergency Conference on the Social Crisis & War, healed April 17-18 in Michigan.
Withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan!
21 April 2010
This resolution on war was passed unanimously at the SEP Emergency Conference on the Social Crisis & War, held April 17-18 in Michigan.
Emergency Conference attendees speak to the World Socialist Web Site
By Tom Eley, 21 April 2010
The World Socialist Web Site interviewed a number of delegates who attended the Emergency Conference on War and the Social Crisis, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 17 and 18.
SEP Emergency Conference advances strategy for struggle against social crisis and war
By Tom Eley, 19 April 2010
An SEP Conference, held April 17-18, passed six resolutions that provide the basis for uniting workers in the US and internationally in a struggle against mass unemployment and war.
Oppose furloughs and all school cuts! For a working class movement to defend public education!
By Socialist Equality Party, 6 April 2010
The following statement will be distributed to teachers in California who will be voting April 7-9 on proposed contract revisions that would cut five days from the current school year and seven days next year.
Attend the WSWS/SEP Emergency Conference!
By Joe Kishore, 1 April 2010
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site urge our readers and supporters to make plans today to attend the Emergency Conference on the Social Crisis & War , to be held April 17-18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
For a working class movement to defend public education!
By Socialist Equality Party, 30 March 2010
This statement will be distributed at “town hall” meetings called by the Detroit Public Schools to discuss proposals to close 44 more schools this year.
In the aftermath of the health care vote
By David North and Joe Kishore, 27 March 2010
In the aftermath of the passage of the health care bill, there have been various acts of right-wing vandalism and intimidation against congressional Democrats who voted for the legislation.
WSWS posts founding document of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish
Las bases históricas e internacionales del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad
15 March 2010
The World Socialist Web Site today begins the publication of The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party in Spanish—Las bases históricas e internacionales del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad—adopted at the Founding Conference of the SEP in August 2008.
The Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire
By Tom Eley, 13 March 2010
The Socialist Equality Party has initiated the Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire to expose the deadly threat posed by utility shutoffs and to build a movement to stop them.
For a socialist policy to defeat the attacks on mass transit!
By Socialist Equality Party, 2 March 2010
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is preparing to adopt a savage round of service cutbacks and new attacks on the jobs and wages of transit workers, adding to the suffering in the midst of the biggest economic slump since the depression of the 1930s.
Attend the fact-finding inquiry
The Dexter Avenue fire: Utility shutoffs and the social crisis in Detroit
By Socialist Equality Party, 25 February 2010
The SEP is calling on workers, young people and all those concerned about the worsening social conditions in Detroit to participate in a fact-finding inquiry into the January 5 house fire on Dexter Ave. which killed three residents living without utilities.
Emergency Conference on the Social Crisis & War The Fight for a Socialist Alternative
23 February 2010
The World Socialist Web Site, Socialist Equality Party and International Students for Social Equality are holding an emergency national conference on the social crisis and war, to be held April 17-18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Unite New York City teachers, students, workers to stop school closings and cuts
By Socialist Equality Party, 10 February 2010
Defying citywide protests, New York’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg is escalating school closings and budget cuts. The Socialist Equality Party calls upon students, teachers and workers to initiate mass resistance to this attack on public education.
Perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in 2010
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 1 February 2010
The following is an amended version of a report submitted to a national aggregate meeting of the Socialist Equality Party in Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 9, 2010. David North is the national chairman of the SEP. Joseph Kishore is the national secretary of the SEP.
Public Meeting in New York City
Historians in the service of the Big Lie:
29 October 2009
These public lectures on November 15 in New York and December 13 in London will be given by David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and US national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party.
SEP public meeting
The crisis in Detroit: The socialist response
20 October 2009
The SEP (US) and the ISSE are calling this public meeting November 5 in Detroit to discuss the working class response to the economic and social crisis.
SEP public meetings in US
One year since the election of Obama: Illusion and reality
19 October 2009
The SEP (US) is hosting a series of meetings throughout the country reviewing the situation one year since the election of Obama.
Public meetings
70 years since World War II: Origins & consequences of a historical catastrophe
29 September 2009
SEP National Chairman David North will speak on the lessons of World War II and their implications for the present period.
Michigan Public Meeting
Lessons of the Oakland University professors’ strike
23 September 2009
The SEP and ISSE will be hosting this public meeting in Rochester, Michigan on September 24 to discuss the crisis of education and the lessons of the Oakland University professors’ strike.
SEP Public Meeting
For a unified struggle of Detroit workers!
4 September 2009
The Socialist Equality Party will be holding this important public meeting in Detroit on September 8 to discuss the necessary political strategy for the working class in Detroit.
The political lessons of the Detroit mayoral elections
By D’Artagnan Collier and SEP candidate for Detroit Mayor, 6 August 2009
D’Artagnan Collier reviews the political basis of his campaign for Detroit mayor and discusses the significance of Tuesday’s primary elections.
SEP public meeting in California
For a socialist solution to the economic crisis
29 July 2009
A public meeting on Saturday, August 1 in South Pasadena will feature SEP National Secretary Joe Kishore and John Burton, SEP candidate for California governor in 2003 and for US Congress in 2006.
Rally of Detroit City workers against concessions contract
24 July 2009
SEP Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier addresses Detroit City workers’ rally.
SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier takes part in Detroit mayoral debate
By Jack Cody, 22 July 2009
Socialist Equality Party candidate D’Artagnan Collier outlined his response to the social crisis in Detroit during a July 16 debate involving candidates for the city’s upcoming primary mayoral election.
Oppose budget cuts in California! Defend jobs and education! Unite workers behind a socialist program!
By of Socialist Equality Party, 13 July 2009
With the backing of the Obama administration, Governor Schwarzenegger is seizing on the economic crisis gripping California to gut basic social programs upon which millions of people depend.
Election meeting in Metro Detroit
A socialist response to the economic crisis
10 July 2009
The Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor, D’Artagnan Collier, will speak at an election meeting on Tuesday, July 14, on the socialist response to the economic crisis.
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