Gauche Socialiste is an officially recognised faction within the political party
Quebec solidaire and an affiliate of the
reunified Fourth International.
Origins
It was formed in 1983 by Trotskyists who left or were expelled from the
Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire
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when the group turned away from Trotskyism in the early 1980s. ''Gauche Socialiste'' members had previously been in the ''Organisation Combat Socialiste'', which existed from 1980 to 1982, and were briefly part of the
Mouvement socialiste
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, which was founded in 1981.
Gauche Socialiste is the Quebec section of the
reunified Fourth International. The group publishes the periodical ''La Gauche''. The group's counterpart in English Canada was
Socialist Challenge which later joined the New Socialist Group and forms a Fourth International Caucus within it.
In 2002, Gauche Socialiste participated in the creation of the
Union des forces progressistes (UFP) and subsequently in 2006 supported the creation of
Quebec solidaire through the merger of the UFP and
Option citoyenne. In 2007, GS was one of two groups to receive party recognition as a collective (
faction).
References
External links
La Politique québécoise sur le Web
Communism in Quebec
Trotskyist organizations in Canada
Fourth International (post-reunification)
Provincial political parties in Quebec
Political parties established in 1983
Political party factions in Canada
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