Socialist Equality Party (United Kingdom)

Socialist Equality Party
Party leader	Chris Marsden
founding	1986
Place of foundation	United Kingdom
Youth organization	International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Great Britain)
Alignment	Trotskyism socialism
International connections	International Committee of the Fourth International
Website	socialequality.org.uk

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a small Trotskyist party in the United Kingdom and the section of the International Committee of the Fourth International there . It emerged from the Workers Revolutionary Party led by Gerry Healy . Its chairman is Chris Marsden .

The SEP took part in the Scottish general elections and the Welsh National Council elections in 2007 but did not win any seats. In the 2010 British House of Commons elections , David O'Sullivan and Robert Skelton were elected.

Publications

• Journal Fourth International : How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism, 1973 to 1985 . Summer 1986 edition ( Volume 13, No. 1), ISBN 3886340252
• The Historical & International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain) , Mehring Books 2011, ISBN 978-1-873045-99-2 ( German online )

Web links

Commons : Socialist Equality Party (UK)  - collection of images

• Website of the Socialist Equality Party (English)
• Article on the Socialist Equality Party (GB) in German

Individual evidence

1. ↑ election manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party to the UK general election 2010 on WSWS.org (accessed July 26, 2011)