Socialist Equality Party
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The Socialist Equality Party is the name of several branches of the Trotskyist International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), the largest being in the United States. They are best known for publishing the World Socialist Web Site.
In the United States, the SEP ran Congressional candidates and a Presidential ticket in the 2004 elections. It nominated Bill Van Auken for President and Jim Lawrence for Vice-President in the 2004 Presidential elections, in which its main call was for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq.
The origins of the SEP lie in the Workers League which renamed itself the Socialist Equality Party in 1995. It is now based in Michigan and recently endorsed John Christopher Burton when he ran in the California recall.
Other Socialist Equality Parties linked to the one in the United States exist in Australia, Canada, Germany, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom.
[edit] Presidential candidates
- 1996 - Jerome White
- 2004 - Bill Van Auken
[edit] External link
This page is part of the Field Guide to the Left.
