New Socialist Group
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The New Socialist Group (NSG) is a Canadian socialist organization. Originating within Trotskyism, it describes its politics as socialism from below and aims to develop an anti-racist feminist socialism for today. The group was formed by former members of the Political Reorientation Faction (PRF) of the International Socialists (IS) in March 1996.[1][unreliable source?]
It was subsequently joined by members of Socialist Challenge, the Canadian section of the reunified Fourth International (FI) as part of a process of regroupment with non-sectarian revolutionary organizations in Canada. The FI supporters formed a Fourth International Caucus within the NSG.
The New Socialist Group has adopted a position in favour of indigenous self-determination and the right of Quebec independence. The NSG does not organize in Quebec. Instead, it has fraternal relations with Gauche Socialiste, the Quebec section of the FI. The New Socialist group also has ties with the American socialist group Solidarity.
The NSG describes itself as "a group of revolutionary socialists in the Canadian state committed to the self-emancipation of the working class, internationalism and opposition to imperialism and all forms of oppression. We reject bureaucratic and authoritarian visions of socialism and look instead to the radical tradition of socialism from below which believes that liberation can be achieved only through the activity and mobilization of the exploited and oppressed themselves. Our goal is workers’ power, a socialist democracy that is far more democratic than any capitalist society, and that has nothing in common with Stalinism."
The New Socialist Group publishes a semiannual magazine called New Socialist. Members of the group are primarily concentrated in Toronto but there are also members in Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Calgary, Kitchener-Waterloo and Halifax.
In 2003 there was a split in the NSG resulting in the creation of Autonomy & Solidarity.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS 1995-1996 FACTION FIGHT (Split between IS Canada and Political Reorientation Faction/New Socialist)
