Socialist Equality Party (Australia) Statement of Principles

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The World Socialist Web Site is publishing the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) Statement of Principles. The document was adopted unanimously at the party’s founding congress in Sydney on January 21–25. (See: “Socialist Equality Party (Australia) holds founding Congress”).

The WSWS has published The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), which was also adopted at the founding congress.

To find out more about how to join the SEP, contact us here.

The World Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party

1. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, the World Party of Socialist Revolution founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. The principles of the SEP incorporate the lessons of the strategic experiences of the international working class throughout the 20th century and of the struggle waged by Marxists for the program of world socialist revolution. The socialist revolution, which signifies the forcible entrance of the masses into conscious political struggle, portends the greatest and most progressive transformation of man’s social organisation in world history—the ending of society based on classes and, therefore, of the exploitation of human beings by other human beings. A transformation so immense is the work of an entire historical epoch. The principles of the SEP reference the experiences of this epoch, which opened with the eruption of World War I in 1914, followed shortly after by the conquest of state power by the Russian working class in the October Revolution of 1917.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/sepp-m12.shtml