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SEP campaigns among Sri Lankan rubber plantation workers

By Sampath Perera, April 1, 2009

As a part of its campaign for provincial elections in Sri Lanka, a Socialist Equality Party team visited rubber plantation workers in the Puwakpitiya estates.

Sri Lankan election: SEP campaigns among railway workers

By W.A. Sunil, March 30, 2009

As a part of its campaign for the Colombo district in the Western Provincial Council election, the Socialist Equality Party visited the quarters of railway workers in Ratmalana—a major industrial zo...

Sri Lankan parliament passes power reform bill

By W.A. Sunil, March 12, 2009

The Sri Lankan government pushes through the Electricity Bill on March 3, paving the way for private firms, co-operatives and local government bodies to compete with the state-owned Ceylon Electricity...

Notes on the political and economic crisis of the world capitalist system

Perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in 2009

By David North and Joseph Kishore, January 13, 2009

This report was delivered to a Midwest aggregate meeting of the Socialist Equality Party held January 10 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. David North is the national chairman of the SEP. Joseph Kishore is the ...

Sri Lankan SEP stands in provincial elections to oppose war and attacks on democratic rights

By the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), January 10, 2009

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka is contesting two provincial council elections to be held on February 14. In opposition to all other political parties, the SEP candidates will emphatic...

Recession in New Zealand deepens

By Tom Peters and Rick Wilson, January 8, 2009

Despite media praise lavished on a late December retail “boom”, New Zealand’s economy shrank for the third consecutive quarter in the three months to September.

Steiner, Brenner and Neo-Marxism: The Marcusean Component

By Adam Haig, January 2, 2009

As a supporter of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) who has been following the political and philosophical charges of Alex Steiner and Frank Brenner, the author of this pa...

Canada: “Progressive coalition” rallies fail to denounce constitutional coup

By Carl Bronski and Eric Marquis, December 10, 2008

At rallies in Toronto and Montreal last Saturday, supporters of a Liberal-NDP coalition government refused to denounce last week’s constitutional coup facilitated by the archaic office of the govern...

Australia: The DSP split and Socialist Alliance—another opportunist debacle

By Laura Tiernan, December 6, 2008

Six months after a devastating split in the Democratic Socialist Perspective, the 6th national conference of Socialist Alliance this weekend will provide further proof of the crisis gripping the DSP a...

Australia: State provocations, security and Socialist Alternative

By Patrick O’Connor, December 3, 2008

The failure of the protest organisation Socialist Alternative (SA) to issue any serious response to revelations that a police agent provocateur spent a considerable period of time working within their...

Election Day 2008: The class issues

November 4, 2008

While tens of millions of Americans go to the polls, the outcome of the US election is awaited with intense interest by billions of people all over the world. This is not because they view the US pres...

Jerry White addresses students at candidates’ forum in Dayton, Ohio

By our reporter, November 4, 2008

SEP candidate Jerry White spoke to high school students at a candidates’ forum in Dayton, Ohio on Monday.