Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)

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

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)

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”

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

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

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”

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

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!

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

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

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.”

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

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?

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

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!

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

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

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

“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

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.