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On May 1, David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and international editor of the World Socialist Web Site, spoke at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in defense of Leon Trotsky. The event was hosted by the Cornell chapter of the International Students for Social Equality.

On May 1, the Occupy Wall Street movement organized a series of demonstrations in cities throughout the US. The day’s protests were for the most part fairly small, and to the extent that they expressed any definite political conceptions, they posed no threat to the parties of big business. Rather, they combined the unserious play-acting of anarchist groups with the thoroughly practiced and reactionary posturing of the trade unions.

After a successful public meeting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee last week, Socialist Equality Party president candidate Jerry White was interviewed by 89.7 WUWM, the Milwaukee Public Radio Station.

A Socialist Equality Party campaign team spoke to workers and young people Saturday attending a job fair in downtown Detroit about the policies of SEP candidates Jerome White for president and Phyllis Scherrer for vice president. Thousands of job seekers packed the Compuware building to apply for positions with mortgage lender Quicken Loans. The company said it is seeking to fill 1,000 positions, including information technology and mortgage banking.