We are publishing here the tribute given by Chris Marsden to Halil Çelik, founder and leader of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu, who died suddenly at the age of 57 on December 31, 2018, at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of his death.
Far from offering any insight into Trotsky’s immense legacy, the meeting represented a second political assassination of the great Russian revolutionary.
The following lecture was delivered by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), and Ulaş Ateşçi, a leading member of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (Socialist Equality Group) in Turkey, to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
With the entire political establishment facing a historic crisis, Argentina’s pseudo-left parties are scrambling to provide an electoral formula to help prop up capitalist rule.