Galician Movement for Socialism
Galician Movement for Socialism Movemento Galego ao Socialismo | |
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Politics of Galicia |
The Galician Movement for Socialism (MGS, Movemento Galego ao Socialismo in
History
The History of Galician Movement for Socialism can be divided into three basic periods:
- The period from the summer of 2006 and December 2008, where the militants of that what later would become the MGS were part of the Movemento pola Base,[3] an internal political current that supported socialism, independence and a BNG based in the assemblies.
- The period between December 2008 and March 2009, in which, after the rupture with part of the Movemento pola Base,[4][5] that would finally left the BNG the militants that later would create the MGS maintain the name of the previous organization, a situation that causes a legal conflict with the other Movemento pola Base.
- The period between March 2009 and the present, in which the MGS establishes and thickens its social base and influence. This period i marked by the growing influence of the MGS in the BNG, specially after the rupture of 2012.[6] The MGS also gained a very big influence in the galician student movement after the foundation of the Galician Student League (LEG), that the MGS considers its reference in the university.
The opposition to the drift of the BNG
The first period can be defined as opposition to what is considered a move away of the
The MpB presented then its own candidacy to the National Council of the BNG, that was chosen in the XII National Assembly of the BNG. The list was headed by Fermín Paz and Paula Castro, and finally got 245 votes (9.32% of the total) and 5 representatives in the National Council. The MpB criticized what they considered a drift towards homogeneity in the BNG. On 28 October 2007, the MpB formally constitutes itself as a political organization, being defined ideologically as "independentist" and socialist and as a working class organization.[8][9]
Internal rupture of the MpB
Between the months of December 2008 and January 2009 this current split between those in favor of creating a new political formation outside of the BNG and those who advocated to continue within that front. It was also an important element in the division the role of MpB in the CIG and its relations with the UPG within this union. The two factions claimed their legitimacy and the use of the name Movemento pola Base.
The faction that used as its communication channel the website polabase.net held a national assembly on February 7, 2009 where it was decided to abandon the
Birth of the MGS as a new political project
The Galician Movement for Socialism formally constituted on March 20, 2009. The difference between MpB and the MGS was primarily strategic and not ideological, the MGS considered that it could perform a recovery of the original
In February 2010 the formal presentation of the party took place during the First National Meeting of the MGS, which was held in the galician municipality of
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Structure
The MGS is an
Presence in other organizations
The MGS continues the analysis made in the early days of the MpB which led to the rejection of a marginalist strategy. The goal is to have social presence and presence in those organisms associated with left-wing Galician nationalism nominally in the BNG and the CIG.
The presence in the BNG, MGS has two of the fifteen members of the National Executive.[10] As for the presence in the CIG the MGS is part of the majority candidacy that was presented to the V Confederal Congress, having several representants in the executive. The MGS has a very strong presence in the comarcas of Ferrolterra, Compostela and Vigo, and its influence in the local BNG and CIG assemblies is notable.
References
- ^ "Sobre o MGS".
- ^ O MGS reivindica unha "vía galega" para a "independencia e o socialismo" en Galicia. Galicia Confidencial, Compostela | 03/12/2014.
- ^ Movement for the Grassroots or Movement for the Base.
- ^ "LA INFORMACIÓN: referente en actualidad empresarial y económica". Noticias.lainformacion.com. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ^ Grupo El Correo Gallego (2009-03-14). "El Movemento pola Base anuncia su escisiзn del BNG". Elcorreogallego.es. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- Compromiso por Galicia.
- ^ Leader of the Confederación Intersindical Galega-Metal federation.
- ^ "ESTOUTRAS: O Movemento pola Base constitúese oficialmente como forza política".
- ^ "Sobre o MPB | Movemento pola Base". Archived from the original on 2015-02-18. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
- ^ [1] Rafa Villar and Xavier Campos.
External links
- MGS official website Archived 2015-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
- MGS official Twitter