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.
It was subsequently joined by members of Socialist Challenge, the Canadian section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) as part of a process of regroupment with non-sectarian revolutionary organizations in Canada. The FI supporters form the Fourth International Caucus.
The New Socialist Group has adopted a position in favour of Quebec independence and does not organize in the province. Instead, it has fraternal relations with Gauche Socialiste, the Quebec section of the USFI. The New Socialist group also has ties with the American socialist group Solidarity.
The NSG was an active participant in the "Rebuilding the Left" project which attempted unsuccessfully to regroup and organize a larger section of independent socialists and far left groupings in Canada.
The New Socialist Group publishes a bimonthly magazine called New Socialist. Members of the group are primarily concentrated in Toronto but there are also members in Vancouver, Hamilton, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Kingston.
