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International Committee of the Fourth International
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Latest news
London Underground drivers strike against longer shifts under four-day week plan
Talks have broken down not due to RMT intransigence but because of TfL’s hardline stance. It has used Dempsey’s demobilisation of members to press ahead with restructuring.
Tony Robson
•
22 April 2026
Starmer’s Mandelson/Epstein crisis deepened by Olly Robbins’ testimony
The events of the last days expose a hollowed-out, diseased body politic—serving the selfish interests of a grasping capitalist oligarchy.
Robert Stevens
•
21 April 2026
An Open Letter by a resident doctor on the way forward to defend the NHS against the Starmer government
The Open Letter draws a balance sheet of the three-year struggle waged by 50,000 members of the British Medical Association in England for pay restoration and resolving the acute unemployment crisis facing resident doctors in the National Health Service.
our correspondent
•
21 April 2026
CWU pushes “relaunch” of partnership with Kretinsky, based on sellout “negotiators agreement” with Royal Mail
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) calls for a resounding No vote. Opposition must be mobilised demanding the removal of Ward, Walsh and the entire CWU Postal Executive who serve as Royal Mail’s enforcers.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)
•
20 April 2026
Thousands march in London against housing crisis, but capitalist politicians offer no way forward
Ioan Petrescu and reporters
•
20 April 2026
Starmer government facing collapse over Mandelson/Epstein scandal
Robert Stevens
•
19 April 2026
Starmer premiership threatened as Mandelson/Epstein crisis re-erupts
Robert Stevens
•
17 April 2026
The socialist answer to the housing crisis in Britain
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
•
16 April 2026
Labour peer George Robertson demands UK welfare spending cull to fund “warfighting readiness”, accusing Treasury of “vandalism”
Robert Stevens
•
15 April 2026
Oppose militarism and war!
Almost two decades after the United States launched the “war on terror,” the entire world is being dragged into an ever-expanding maelstrom of imperialist violence. Millions have been killed by the wars of US imperialism and its allies in the Middle East and Africa, and tens of millions maimed or turned into refugees. A century after the end of World War I, these conflicts are once again metastasizing toward a catastrophic global conflagration.
The ICFI and SEP are fighting to build a new international anti-war movement of the working class. The fight against war is the fight against its source, the capitalist profit system.
read more
[AP Photo/Finnbarr Webster]
wsws online meeting, saturday february 25, 2023
The War in Ukraine and How to Stop It
To mark the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are sponsoring a round-table discussion to explain the present situation and elaborate a socialist and internationalist strategy to end the war.
watch here
2016 online interview
David North speaks on his book, A Quarter Century of War
Moderated by WSWS reporters Andrea Peters and Andre Damon, the interview covered the central themes of North’s book and a wide range of topics, from the significance of the dissolution of the USSR and the crisis of the world capitalist system to the pro-imperialist politics of the pseudo-left and the revolutionary role of the working class in the struggle against war.
watch here
Stop the genocide in Gaza!
As the looming confrontation with Iran makes clear, the Israeli onslaught against the imprisoned population of Gaza is an extension of the global war. The Israeli attack on Gaza, which has assumed genocidal dimensions, is aimed at the annihilation of Palestinian resistance to the Zionist regime. As the Israeli government and military employ the language and methods of extermination, it is entirely appropriate to describe this war as the Zionist regime’s “Final Solution” of the Palestinian question.
Neither the oppression of the Palestinian people nor, for that matter, the historic and still very real issue of antisemitism can be solved within the framework of the capitalist system and its nation state.
read more
[AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana]
October 2023 lecture
Socialist internationalism & the struggle against Zionism & imperialism
This lecture by David North provides a political and historical analysis of the genocidal war now being conducted by the Zionist regime in Israel against the Palestinians. It draws the connection between the contemporary war in Gaza, as well as the war in Ukraine, with the historical struggle for an international socialist program by the Left Opposition, founded by Leon Trotsky 100 years ago in October 1923.
watch here
November 2023 lecture
Genocide in Gaza: Imperialism descends into the abyss
North demonstrates how Zionism originated in the nineteenth century, with the support of the imperialist powers, in direct opposition to the widespread support for socialism in the Jewish working class. He explains the socialist and internationalist strategy that is necessary to mobilise the working class against the Netanyahu regime and the imperialist system
watch here
The fight against fascism
Unprecedented levels of social inequality, continuous wars and the drive to great-power conflict are incompatible with the maintenance of democratic forms of rule. Around the world, capitalist governments are building up the state apparatus, surveillance and censorship directed at the population.
From the United States to Germany, fascist forces are being systematically promoted by the ruling class. Their elevation is part of preparations to violently suppress mass opposition in the working class to social inequality and war.
read more
Protesters clash with police in Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following last night's immigration raid protest.
[AP Photo/Eric Thayer]
wsws online meeting
Where is America going? Trump’s coup and the rise of fascism
At this event, leading members of the SEP in the US, Germany and UK spoke on the national and global significance of the rise of fascism in America, its social and political origins, and the necessary strategy for the working class to fight back.
watch here
speech by david north
What is fascism?
David North, the National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, addressed a meeting of students and workers at Wayne State University in Detroit on April 11, 2019. The meeting was part of the series “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It.”
watch here
Trotskyism is the Marxism of the 21st Century
Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International as the World Party of Socialist Revolution in 1938, to oppose the Stalinist degeneration of the Communist (Third) International.
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is the British section of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 and led today by the International Committee. The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) represents the continuity of the struggle waged by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky to forge an independent revolutionary party of the working class for the overthrow of the capitalist profit system.
read more
public meeting, august 2023
An island at the center of world history: Trotsky on Prinkipo
This event was held on Prinkipo, an island in the Sea of Marmara off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey.
The commemoration honored Trotsky’s four-year exile on the island, from 1929 to 1933. More than 160 people from throughout Turkey attended in person, and it was livestreamed to viewers around the world.
watch here
DAVID NORTH, 19 AUGUST 2020
Trotsky’s Last Year
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
read here
For the United Socialist States of Europe!
Workers in Britain must reject all forms of racism and nationalism and link their struggles with workers in Europe and throughout the world. Against the European Union and its pro-business governments, we stand for workers’ rule across the continent.
From the beginning of the Brexit referendum campaign in 2016, the SEP called for an active boycott, opposing both the nationalist calls for an 'independent' Britain and the capitalist European Union, which has dictated savage austerity, militarism and attacks on refugees across the continent.
read more
[AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez]
[Photo by Europäische Union, 2024 - EP]
2020 statement by the sep (UK)
Britain leaves the European Union: Against nationalism, For the United Socialist States of Europe!
The SEP called for an active boycott of the Brexit referendum in opposition to all attempts to dragoon the working class behind one or other of the reactionary camps of the bourgeoisie. Our perspective was based upon the independent political mobilisation of the working class across Europe.
read more
[Photo by Owain.davies - Own work /
CC BY-SA 4.0
]
2019 article by chris marsden
The rise of the Brexit Party and how to fight it
The rise of the far-right cannot be opposed by supporting the EU, which is an instrument of big business for attacking the working class and pursuing trade war and military rearmament globally. It cannot be answered by pro-capitalist parties such as Labour in the UK. It can only be opposed by a struggle against capitalism and for socialism.
read more
No to Internet Censorship!
In virtually every country, governments are seeking to crack down on the internet, prevent the spread of socialist and left-wing views, and stop workers from being able to communicate and organize online. They are collaborating with the giant social media and technology corporations including Facebook, Google and Twitter to engage in censorship.
read more
[AP Photo/David Zalubowski]
an open letter to google
Stop the censorship of the Internet! Stop the political blacklisting of the World Socialist Web Site!
David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, has sent the following open letter to Google executives Sundar Pichai, Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt.
read more
an interview with andre damon
Meet the Censored
Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm.
read more
Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) is the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party. It fights to unite students and young people for peace, equality, the rights of the working class and socialism.
read more
IYSSE campaign at a campus in Cardiff to stop the war the in Ukraine
public meeting, june 2025
Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) hosted a public meeting in London May 31, addressed by Momodou Taal, the British-Gambian student who challenged US President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on free speech and the right to protest the Gaza genocide. Joining Taal on the platform were his lawyer, Eric Lee, and Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
Read a report
online rally, 2022
For a Mass Movement of Youth and Students to Stop the War in Ukraine!
The IYSSE—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people against war.
The war in Ukraine must be stopped before it results in a global catastrophe.
Read a report
Leadership
National Secretary
Chris Marsden
Marsden joined the Trotskyist movement in 1983 and has played a leading role in the work of the International Committee of the Fourth International for over three decades. He is also a member of the international editorial board of the
World Socialist Web Site
.
More
Assistant National Secretary
Thomas Scripps
Thomas Scripps is the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party. He joined the Trotskyist movement in 2012.
More
Menu
Search
Latest
Profile
Menu
Search
Latest
Profile
International Committee of the Fourth International
Socialist Equality Party
Britain
Get involved
To find out more about the Socialist Equality Party or to get involved, complete this form. Someone from the SEP in your region will contact you.
Latest news
London Underground drivers strike against longer shifts under four-day week plan
Talks have broken down not due to RMT intransigence but because of TfL’s hardline stance. It has used Dempsey’s demobilisation of members to press ahead with restructuring.
Tony Robson
•
22 April 2026
Starmer’s Mandelson/Epstein crisis deepened by Olly Robbins’ testimony
The events of the last days expose a hollowed-out, diseased body politic—serving the selfish interests of a grasping capitalist oligarchy.
Robert Stevens
•
21 April 2026
An Open Letter by a resident doctor on the way forward to defend the NHS against the Starmer government
The Open Letter draws a balance sheet of the three-year struggle waged by 50,000 members of the British Medical Association in England for pay restoration and resolving the acute unemployment crisis facing resident doctors in the National Health Service.
our correspondent
•
21 April 2026
CWU pushes “relaunch” of partnership with Kretinsky, based on sellout “negotiators agreement” with Royal Mail
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) calls for a resounding No vote. Opposition must be mobilised demanding the removal of Ward, Walsh and the entire CWU Postal Executive who serve as Royal Mail’s enforcers.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)
•
20 April 2026
Thousands march in London against housing crisis, but capitalist politicians offer no way forward
Ioan Petrescu and reporters
•
20 April 2026
Starmer government facing collapse over Mandelson/Epstein scandal
Robert Stevens
•
19 April 2026
Starmer premiership threatened as Mandelson/Epstein crisis re-erupts
Robert Stevens
•
17 April 2026
The socialist answer to the housing crisis in Britain
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
•
16 April 2026
Labour peer George Robertson demands UK welfare spending cull to fund “warfighting readiness”, accusing Treasury of “vandalism”
Robert Stevens
•
15 April 2026
Oppose militarism and war!
Almost two decades after the United States launched the “war on terror,” the entire world is being dragged into an ever-expanding maelstrom of imperialist violence. Millions have been killed by the wars of US imperialism and its allies in the Middle East and Africa, and tens of millions maimed or turned into refugees. A century after the end of World War I, these conflicts are once again metastasizing toward a catastrophic global conflagration.
The ICFI and SEP are fighting to build a new international anti-war movement of the working class. The fight against war is the fight against its source, the capitalist profit system.
read more
[AP Photo/Finnbarr Webster]
wsws online meeting, saturday february 25, 2023
The War in Ukraine and How to Stop It
To mark the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the World Socialist Web Site and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are sponsoring a round-table discussion to explain the present situation and elaborate a socialist and internationalist strategy to end the war.
watch here
2016 online interview
David North speaks on his book, A Quarter Century of War
Moderated by WSWS reporters Andrea Peters and Andre Damon, the interview covered the central themes of North’s book and a wide range of topics, from the significance of the dissolution of the USSR and the crisis of the world capitalist system to the pro-imperialist politics of the pseudo-left and the revolutionary role of the working class in the struggle against war.
watch here
Stop the genocide in Gaza!
As the looming confrontation with Iran makes clear, the Israeli onslaught against the imprisoned population of Gaza is an extension of the global war. The Israeli attack on Gaza, which has assumed genocidal dimensions, is aimed at the annihilation of Palestinian resistance to the Zionist regime. As the Israeli government and military employ the language and methods of extermination, it is entirely appropriate to describe this war as the Zionist regime’s “Final Solution” of the Palestinian question.
Neither the oppression of the Palestinian people nor, for that matter, the historic and still very real issue of antisemitism can be solved within the framework of the capitalist system and its nation state.
read more
[AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana]
October 2023 lecture
Socialist internationalism & the struggle against Zionism & imperialism
This lecture by David North provides a political and historical analysis of the genocidal war now being conducted by the Zionist regime in Israel against the Palestinians. It draws the connection between the contemporary war in Gaza, as well as the war in Ukraine, with the historical struggle for an international socialist program by the Left Opposition, founded by Leon Trotsky 100 years ago in October 1923.
watch here
November 2023 lecture
Genocide in Gaza: Imperialism descends into the abyss
North demonstrates how Zionism originated in the nineteenth century, with the support of the imperialist powers, in direct opposition to the widespread support for socialism in the Jewish working class. He explains the socialist and internationalist strategy that is necessary to mobilise the working class against the Netanyahu regime and the imperialist system
watch here
The fight against fascism
Unprecedented levels of social inequality, continuous wars and the drive to great-power conflict are incompatible with the maintenance of democratic forms of rule. Around the world, capitalist governments are building up the state apparatus, surveillance and censorship directed at the population.
From the United States to Germany, fascist forces are being systematically promoted by the ruling class. Their elevation is part of preparations to violently suppress mass opposition in the working class to social inequality and war.
read more
Protesters clash with police in Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following last night's immigration raid protest.
[AP Photo/Eric Thayer]
wsws online meeting
Where is America going? Trump’s coup and the rise of fascism
At this event, leading members of the SEP in the US, Germany and UK spoke on the national and global significance of the rise of fascism in America, its social and political origins, and the necessary strategy for the working class to fight back.
watch here
speech by david north
What is fascism?
David North, the National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, addressed a meeting of students and workers at Wayne State University in Detroit on April 11, 2019. The meeting was part of the series “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It.”
watch here
Trotskyism is the Marxism of the 21st Century
Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International as the World Party of Socialist Revolution in 1938, to oppose the Stalinist degeneration of the Communist (Third) International.
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is the British section of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 and led today by the International Committee. The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) represents the continuity of the struggle waged by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky to forge an independent revolutionary party of the working class for the overthrow of the capitalist profit system.
read more
public meeting, august 2023
An island at the center of world history: Trotsky on Prinkipo
This event was held on Prinkipo, an island in the Sea of Marmara off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey.
The commemoration honored Trotsky’s four-year exile on the island, from 1929 to 1933. More than 160 people from throughout Turkey attended in person, and it was livestreamed to viewers around the world.
watch here
DAVID NORTH, 19 AUGUST 2020
Trotsky’s Last Year
An appraisal, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination, of the work of the great theoretician and strategist of World Socialist Revolution during the final year of his life.
read here
For the United Socialist States of Europe!
Workers in Britain must reject all forms of racism and nationalism and link their struggles with workers in Europe and throughout the world. Against the European Union and its pro-business governments, we stand for workers’ rule across the continent.
From the beginning of the Brexit referendum campaign in 2016, the SEP called for an active boycott, opposing both the nationalist calls for an 'independent' Britain and the capitalist European Union, which has dictated savage austerity, militarism and attacks on refugees across the continent.
read more
[AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez]
[Photo by Europäische Union, 2024 - EP]
2020 statement by the sep (UK)
Britain leaves the European Union: Against nationalism, For the United Socialist States of Europe!
The SEP called for an active boycott of the Brexit referendum in opposition to all attempts to dragoon the working class behind one or other of the reactionary camps of the bourgeoisie. Our perspective was based upon the independent political mobilisation of the working class across Europe.
read more
[Photo by Owain.davies - Own work /
CC BY-SA 4.0
]
2019 article by chris marsden
The rise of the Brexit Party and how to fight it
The rise of the far-right cannot be opposed by supporting the EU, which is an instrument of big business for attacking the working class and pursuing trade war and military rearmament globally. It cannot be answered by pro-capitalist parties such as Labour in the UK. It can only be opposed by a struggle against capitalism and for socialism.
read more
No to Internet Censorship!
In virtually every country, governments are seeking to crack down on the internet, prevent the spread of socialist and left-wing views, and stop workers from being able to communicate and organize online. They are collaborating with the giant social media and technology corporations including Facebook, Google and Twitter to engage in censorship.
read more
[AP Photo/David Zalubowski]
an open letter to google
Stop the censorship of the Internet! Stop the political blacklisting of the World Socialist Web Site!
David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, has sent the following open letter to Google executives Sundar Pichai, Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt.
read more
an interview with andre damon
Meet the Censored
Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm.
read more
Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) is the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party. It fights to unite students and young people for peace, equality, the rights of the working class and socialism.
read more
IYSSE campaign at a campus in Cardiff to stop the war the in Ukraine
public meeting, june 2025
Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) hosted a public meeting in London May 31, addressed by Momodou Taal, the British-Gambian student who challenged US President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on free speech and the right to protest the Gaza genocide. Joining Taal on the platform were his lawyer, Eric Lee, and Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the US.
Read a report
online rally, 2022
For a Mass Movement of Youth and Students to Stop the War in Ukraine!
The IYSSE—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people against war.
The war in Ukraine must be stopped before it results in a global catastrophe.
Read a report
Leadership
National Secretary
Chris Marsden
Marsden joined the Trotskyist movement in 1983 and has played a leading role in the work of the International Committee of the Fourth International for over three decades. He is also a member of the international editorial board of the
World Socialist Web Site
.
More
Assistant National Secretary
Thomas Scripps
Thomas Scripps is the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party. He joined the Trotskyist movement in 2012.
More