SEP Statements and Materials on the 2008 US Elections
Election Day 2008: The class issues
4 November 2008
Today is Election Day. By the time the polls close this evening as many as 140 million people will have cast their ballot to select a new president and determine the composition of the US Senate and House of Representatives. While tens of millions of Americans go to the polls, the outcome of the election will be awaited with intense interest by billions of people all over the world. This is not because they view the US president as the “leader of the free world,” a title bestowed by the media on the occupant of the White House. Rather, it is because they know from bitter experience that the American president, as leader of the most powerful imperialist country, is capable of pursuing policies that will wreak havoc in their lives and for the planet as a whole. Read more »
Jerry White addresses students at candidates’ forum in Dayton, Ohio
4 November 2008
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White attended a candidates’ forum at Thurgood Marshall High School in Dayton, Ohio on Monday. White spoke before group of 150 high school seniors and presented a socialist alternative to Obama and McCain.
Dayton, an industrial city in southeastern Ohio, has been ravaged by years of plant closings and deindustrialization. Once a center of parts production for General Motors, Forbes magazine now lists Dayton as one of the ten fastest dying cities in America. Read more »
SEP candidates complete successful campaign tour
By Tom Eley of the World Socialist Website, 3 November 2008
The Socialist Equality Party has completed a successful tour of its candidates in the month leading up to the US general elections. The SEP has hosted a series of public meetings for presidential and vice presidential candidates Jerry White and Bill Van Auken, entitled "The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis."
White and Van Auken spoke at well-attended meetings across the US and Canada. The candidates addressed meetings in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan; Bangor, Maine; Berkeley and Santa Monica, California; Portland, Oregon; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Chicago and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; and New York City.
Additionally, White spoke to gatherings of workers, students and youth hosted by sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International in London and Manchester, England; Glasgow, Scotland; and Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany. Read more »
SEP candidates speak to workers in Toronto and Montreal
3 November 2008
Jerry White, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, and Keith Jones, the national secretary of the SEP (Canada), spoke to an audience of workers, students, and artists at a well-attended meeting in Toronto last Thursday.
On the previous evening, Bill Van Auken, the SEP's vice-presidential candidate, had addressed a similar gathering in Montreal. At both meetings, the SEP candidates presented a Marxist analysis of the world financial crisis and explained the need for working people to base their opposition to the capitalists' drive to make them pay for the crisis on an international socialist program. Read more »