Socialist Equality Party (United States)
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP ) is an American Trotskyist party, which emerged from a flow within the Socialist Workers Party (SWP ) in the early 1960s. She stands in solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI ).
Tim Wohlforth and James Robertson, two leading SWP members, a brief break in one direction within the party, called the " Revolutionary Tendency " (RT, German: revolutionary direction ) for which they - only Robertson, later also Wohlforth - including the partisans of the SWP were excluded. During its short existence entertained the RT contacts with Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League. After excluding Wohlforth, he and his followers, the American Committee of the Fourth International ( AKVI ), the American offshoot of the ICFI in which Healy dominated strong.
During the 1960s, the AKVI was renamed the Workers League, In 1996, in the Socialist Equality Party. Chairman since 1976, David North.
The SEP has the World Socialist Web Site, an international and world read socialist Online publication. Most recently she performed in October 2003 to the California recall election and participated in the American presidential elections in 2004 with its own candidates. The German sister organization called the Socialist Equality Party, the British, Canadian, Australian and Sri Lankan also bears the name of the Socialist Equality Party.