The Groupe socialiste des travailleurs du Québec or GST (in

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: ''Quebec Socialist Workers' Group'') was a far left political movement founded in 1973 by militants of the Fourth International in the province of

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, Canada. Involved in trade-unions, the GST worked for the creation, in 1974, of the Regroupement des militants syndicaux and, on the municipal scene in the city of

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, of the Montreal Citizens' Movement (Rassemblement des citoyens de Montréal). The GST was also at the origin of the electoral coalition of the

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(NPD-Québec) and the Regroupement des militants syndicaux that contested seats in the

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. The GST also ran independent candidates in the

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. The GST was disbanded in 1987. Most of its members joined the NPD-Québec. While most of the GST's political existence and history were within Quebec, there was also a small English-language group centred in Toronto which worked in the New Democratic Party and some union locals. The proper name of the group during most of its existence time was "Groupe socialiste des travailleurs" (in

: ''Socialist Workers' Group''), reflecting the fact that it was pan-Canadian in aspiration. The Toronto cell had developed around a split in the Toronto group of the Workers' League, and came to the Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International independently of the Quebec group.

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Fonds d'archives du Groupe socialiste des travailleurs
Notice for documents (1973-1987) of the GST, donated to the archives of

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in 1991. * Louis Gill,
Le Groupe socialiste des travailleurs (1974-1987)
, originally published in ''Bulletin d’histoire politique'', 58 p., in 2 parts: vol. 14, no 2, hiver 2006, p. 227-248, and vol. 14, no 3, printemps 2006, p. 271-292. Available in electronic version at ''Les Classiques des sciences sociales''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Groupe socialiste des travailleurs du Quebec Communism in Quebec Defunct provincial political parties in Quebec Trotskyist organizations in Canada Political parties established in 1973 1987 disestablishments in Quebec 1973 establishments in Quebec Political parties disestablished in 1987

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