Around 200 demonstrators assembled outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Monday to oppose the extradition of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges carrying a 175-year prison sentence.
Up to 1,000 people gathered last night in central London to hear internationally acclaimed musician Roger Waters deliver a musical tribute to imprisoned WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange.
On Sunday, June 23, the Parti de l’egalité socialiste, the French section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, held a public meeting in Paris entitled, “Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!”
The Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) took part in a protest rally on Wednesday called by Free Assange NZ, opposing the persecution of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The demonstration was attended by around 200 workers, students and young people. It was addressed by leading members of the SEP, along with filmmaker James Ricketson and Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees.
Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site spoke to protesters at the Socialist Equality Party’s “Free Assange! Free Manning!” rally, held at Martin Place Amphitheatre in Sydney’s CBD on June 29.
SEP (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden spoke at the May 12 meeting in London in defence of Assange and Manning. This clip has been taken from the full video livestream of the event, published by independent journalist Gordon Dimmack.
This is the speech delivered by Oscar Grenfell, a member of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), to the 2019 International Online May Day Rally organized by the International Committee of the Fourth International and the WSWS.
This is the speech delivered by Chris Marsden, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain), to the 2019 International Online May Day Rally organized by the International Committee of the Fourth International and the WSWS.
On March 5, 2019, the Socialist Equality Party held a rally in Sydney, Australia to demand the freeing of Julian Assange. The rally features speeches from SEP National Secretary James Cogan and internationally renowned journalist John Pilger.