About the Socialist Equality Party
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a political party of and for the working class. The SEP seeks not to reform capitalism, but to create a socialist, democratic and egalitarian society through the establishment of a workers’ government and the revolutionary transformation of world economy. We seek to unify workers in Britain and internationally in the common struggle for socialism—that is, for equality and the rational and democratic utilization of the wealth of the planet.
The SEP is the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is the leadership of the world socialist movement, the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. Sections of the International Committee exist in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Australia, Sri Lanka and Russia.
In all countries the sections of the International Committee fight to unite the world working class in a common struggle for social equality.
We oppose the attempts of the post-Soviet school of falsification to draw an equals sign between the bloody dictatorship of Stalin and genuine socialism. The ICFI rests on the proud heritage of the movement founded by Leon Trotsky, co-leader with Lenin of the Russian Revolution.
Historical and International Foundations Document
Our founding document, The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain), was adopted unanimously at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), held in Manchester between October 22 and 25, 2010. It reviews and examines the most critical political experiences of the British working class, centring in particular on the post-war history of the Trotskyist movement.
You can read our manifesto for the 2010 British General Election here.
For more information on the history and programme of our party see the About the ICFI section of the World Socialist Web Site.
History of the ICFI in Britain
How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism 
Fourth International Magazine - Volume 13 No. 1
In 1985, after a protracted process of degeneration, the Workers Revolutionary Party, the British section of the ICFI, broke decisively from Trotskyism. In May-June 1986, the International Committee of the Fourth International met and made an exhaustive analysis of the theoretical, political and historical issues involved in the WRP's collapse. How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism 1973-1985 was a major step in rearming the movement and preparing for the political battles that lay ahead in building a revolutionary leadership in the working class.
