Defend David McBride! Australian government proceeding with trial of Afghan war crimes whistleblower
The first person facing trial over Australia’s confirmed war crimes in Afghanistan is one of the individuals who exposed them.
Oscar Grenfell•
Free Julian Assange!
The Biden administration is seeking to extradite Julian Assange, an award-winning Australian journalist, to face charges of espionage that carry a life sentence and possible death penalty. His only “crime” is the publication of document exposing the war crimes and diplomatic intrigues of US imperialism and its allies.
Since being arrested and dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in London in April 2019, Assange has been confined to the maximum-security Belmarsh prison. The persecution of Assange is intended to terrorise all journalists and whistleblowers. For over a decade, the US, British and Australian governments, with the shameless support of the media and the establishment political parties and trade unions, have presided over a relentless campaign of persecution against the journalist. This has involved fabricated allegations of sexual assault and personal slander, conspiracy and spying, and attempts to silence and isolate all those who defend him.
We urge all defenders of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to get involved and join the fight to free Julian Assange!
Albanese’s comments expose charade that Australian government is trying to free Julian Assange
Albanese’s lie that the Biden administration cannot end the prosecution of Assange is a greenlight for the extradition and persecution of the Australian publisher.
Oscar Grenfell•
Craig Murray seeks UN protection in Switzerland against British police-state persecution
Murray explained in a statement, “the abuse of special anti-terrorism powers at ports in order to seize all papers and communications of journalists is becoming commonplace.”
Laura Tiernan•
Official documents show Australian government doing nothing to free Assange
The Labor government’s full-throated support of imperialist militarism, in Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific, is incompatible with the defence of a persecuted anti-war publisher.
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Kevin Reed•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Free Julian Assange!
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Julian Assange’s freedom depends on the mobilisation of the working class
The perspective of issuing plaintive appeals to Assange’s persecutors has failed. What is required to secure his freedom is the mobilisation of the immense power of the American and international working class.
Oscar Grenfell•
The working class must demand an end to the show trial of Julian Assange
Assange’s kangaroo court extradition hearing has seen the UK, which boasts of being one of the world’s oldest democracies, sink to the level of a tinpot dictatorship.
Thomas Scripps•
For a worldwide campaign to prevent Julian Assange’s rendition to the US!
An international mass movement must be organized to stop the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States.
Statement of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site•
UN panel condemns detention of WikiLeaks founder
Stop the persecution of Julian Assange!
Despite a ruling that Assange has been subjected to “arbitrary detention,” both the UK and Sweden vow to continue his persecution.
Bill Van Auken•
Two years of asylum in Ecuadorian embassy
Defend Julian Assange!
Assange’s sole “crime” was to publish secret documents exposing war crimes carried out by the US government in Iraq and Afghanistan and conspiracies hatched by the US State Department in countries around the world.
Bill Van Auken•
Oppose the extradition of Julian Assange
The decision last week by the High Court in London to dismiss the appeal of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of his extradition to Sweden is an attack on democratic rights.
Robert Stevens•
Free Julian Assange! Hands off WikiLeaks!
Julian Assange has been arrested and jailed based on charges that are nothing more than a pretext for an act of political repression dictated by the US government.
Bill Van Auken•
speech by thomas scripps, 2021
Defend Julian Assange, jailed for exposing the crimes of American and world imperialism
This speech was delivered by Thomas Scripps, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in Britain, to the 2021 International May Day Online Rally held by the World Socialist Web Site and the International Committee of the Fourth International.
speech by oscar grenfell, 2019
The persecution of Assange and Manning is an attack on the working class
This speech was delivered by Oscar Grenfell to the 2019 International Online May Day Rally held by the World Socialist Web Site and the International Committee of the Fourth International
Sri Lankan SEP hold rally in defence of Assange and Manning
About 60 workers, young people and housewives joined the picket, which was held outside Fort Railway station in Colombo.
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Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds London rally in defence of Assange and Manning
The meeting was attended by more than 130 workers, youth and students who came from all over the UK.
our reporter•
“The release of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is up to us”
Australian and New Zealand demonstrations demand freedom for WikiLeaks founder and US whistleblower
The weekend rallies point to growing international support for Assange and Manning and a deeper political understanding and determination to fight by important layers of students, workers and youth.
our reporters•
Sri Lanka: SEP meeting in Colombo demands release of Assange and Manning
Afterwards, a University of Colombo student, declared: “I agree with the point made in this meeting that the fight for the freedom of Assange is so crucial for the defence of democratic rights internationally.”
our correspondents•
Indian Trotskyists hold public meetings in defence of Assange and Manning
Speakers explained the persecution of Assange and Manning is part of an escalating attack on democratic rights by governments everywhere.
our correspondents•
Sri Lankan SEP holds “Free Assange” rally and public meeting in Hatton
The hour-long morning demonstration won important working-class support in the central province town, which is surrounded by Sri Lanka’s major tea estates.
our reporters•
SEP (Australia) holds Sydney rally in defence of Assange and Manning
“If two million people can come out on the streets of Hong Kong against extradition legislation, then we can surely build such a mass popular movement on a global scale to free Assange and Manning.”
our reporters•
speech by chris marsden, 2020
Victories are not won through political cowardice, but in struggle
This speech was delivered by Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Chris Marsden to a public rally held in London on Sunday, February 23.
speech by James Cogan, 2019
Speech to the Free Assange Rally
SEP national secretary James Cogan addressed a demonstration held in Sydney's Martin Place on March 3, 2019, to demand the Australian government intervene to secure the freedom of persecuted WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
Ten years since WikiLeaks and Assange published the Guantánamo Files
The files exposed the lawless global network established by the US and its allies as part of their “war on terror.”
Oscar Grenfell•
Ten years since WikiLeaks published the US diplomatic cables
WikiLeaks contributed to a growing recognition among workers and young people that state criminality and ruling class conspiracies are not accidents or the work of a few bad individuals, but the product of a whole social system based on the rule of competing oligarchies which must be overthrown.
Thomas Scripps•
Ten years since WikiLeaks and Julian Assange published the Iraq War Logs
The publication was an imperishable contribution to the fight against imperialist militarism, for which the war criminals and their political representatives have never forgiven Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Ten years since WikiLeaks published the Afghan war logs
The documents provided the world’s population with an unprecedented insight into the first war crimes of the 21st century.
Oscar Grenfell•
American foreign policy specialists have described the events in Tunisia over the past week as the “first WikiLeaks revolution.”
Beginning with the first Persian Gulf conflict of 1990–91, the United States has been at war continuously for a quarter century. While using propaganda catchphrases, such as “defense of human rights” and “War on Terror,” to conceal the real aims of its interventions in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, as well as its confrontation with Russia and China, the United States has been engaged in a struggle for global hegemony.
After the Assange hearing—the fight against imperialism
What took place at London’s Old Bailey was a process of vicious retribution against a journalist who exposed the barbarism of the ruling class before the world.
Thomas Scripps•
Former US prison warden testifies Assange will be treated like a “terrorist”: The “war on terror” comes home
Baird’s testimony made clear that Assange is now the victim of the CIA-backed torture and rendition which he courageously exposed as WikiLeaks publisher and journalist.
Thomas Scripps and Laura Tiernan•
Assange faces a fate “worse than death” in US prisons, witnesses tell court
No amount of lame denials can hide the fact that if Assange is put in the clutches of these people, he will be disappeared into the darkest corner of the US prison system.
Thomas Scripps•
Medical evidence shows devastating impact of decade-long state vendetta against Assange
What UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer described in May 2019 as the “public mobbing” and “psychological torture” of Assange has had the desired effect.
Thomas Scripps, Laura Tiernan•
Explosive evidence from Trump insider
Assange dragged from embassy “on the orders of the president”
Cassandra Fairbanks testified that Arthur Schwartz, a wealthy Republican Party donor and key Trump ally, had provided her with evidence of plans by the Trump administration to impose the death penalty.
Laura Tiernan, Thomas Scripps•
Former Der Spiegel journalist exposes US government lies that Assange “failed to redact” and “put lives at risk”
Testimony from John Goetz established that the only “harm to life” came from US war crimes which Assange and WikiLeaks were trying to expose.
Laura Tiernan•
Assange exposed “a very serious pattern of actual war crimes,” Daniel Ellsberg tells extradition hearing
Ellsberg said that “with the Manning and Assange papers, I found my name being mentioned all the time as a very good person … to use me as a foil against these new revelations which were supposedly very different from mine.”
Thomas Scripps•
The political and legal attack on Assange represents a qualitative intensification of the destruction of core rights and, indeed, on legality itself as the mode of bourgeois rule.
Floyd Abrams, who played a significant role in the legal defense of the New York Times’ publication of the Pentagon Papers, has endorsed the government’s campaign against WikiLeaks and its editor Julian Assange.
Australian pseudo-left seeks to cover up its abandonment of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
Socialist Alternative’s article, “The betrayal of Julian Assange,” is a crude attempt to cover up its own role in the “betrayal” of the WikiLeaks publisher.
Patrick O’Connor•
Britain’s Socialist Workers Party renews “rape allegations” witch-hunt of Julian Assange
The SWP have joined in the efforts to railroad Assange and blacken his name, justifying a course of action that would end with the WikiLeaks editor facing a show trial in the US.
Chris Marsden•
Corporate media smears WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
A host of articles attacking Julian Assange this week are representative of what the world-renowned investigative journalist John Pilger aptly described as “Vichy journalism.”
Oscar Grenfell•
The Guardian attack on Assange exposed as politically-motivated fabrication
The lack of any case against WikiLeaks explains the scurrilous allegations by the Guardian newspaper last week.
James Cogan•
The pseudo-left stabs Assange in the back
Despite initially voicing opposition to the attack on Assange, the entire gamut of the middle-class “left” has either ignored, downplayed or supported Assange’s persecution.
Andre Damon•
New York Times launches McCarthyite witch-hunt against Julian Assange
The Times’ vilification is aimed at discrediting in advance any information from WikiLeaks exposing the crimes of US imperialism and its favored candidate, Hillary Clinton.
Bill Van Auken•
Britain’s Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Party back extradition of Assange
Britain’s largest pseudo-left groups have lined up behind the demand that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be extradited to Sweden.
Chris Marsden•
Despite never having been charged with a crime, Sweden’s investigation provided the pseudo-judicial pretext for embroiling Assange in the legal system.
The discrediting of the Swedish investigation, which played a linchpin role in the US-led pursuit of Assange, exposes the lawless character of the entire operation against the WikiLeaks founder.
Jeremy Corbyn and the political dead-end of the official Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign
The DEA makes no appeal to the working class whatsoever, or to any broader layers of the population. It has produced a near hermetically sealed campaign of more or less prominent individuals, held in high regard by each other, who attend each other’s events, and repost each other’s comments.
Thomas Scripps•
After 10 months’ silence, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warns against extradition of Julian Assange
For the past year, Corbyn has led the suppression of any discussion over Assange’s imprisonment in Britain and the country’s participation in the US-led attempt to destroy him.
Oscar Grenfell, Chris Marsden•
Jeremy Corbyn’s criminal silence during Julian Assange’s extradition hearing
Corbyn said nothing when he could have raised Assange’s fate in Parliament every single day, informing millions of the fundamental violation of his democratic rights.
Chris Marsden•
Assange turns 50 in Belmarsh prison, his life still under threat
Assange has now spent more than one fifth of his life persecuted by the US state and its allies.
Thomas Scripps•
Don’t Extradite Assange campaign calls on Boris Johnson to intervene
The struggle to free Julian Assange requires an implacable struggle by the working class against the Johnson and Trump governments now conspiring to silence him forever.
Robert Stevens•
Don’t Extradite Assange meeting in London: The political issues
The aim of the Don’t Extradite Assange group is to rehabilitate the Labour Party and the trade unions, its “left” representatives in particular, and to corral the movement in defence of Assange under their control.
Laura Tiernan and Chris Marsden•
Jeremy Corbyn silent on persecution of Julian Assange
It is more than two years since a United Nations human rights panel ruled that Assange’s persecution by the Swedish and British governments amounts to “arbitrary detention” and a violation of international law.
Laura Tiernan•
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