Galician Movement for Socialism Movemento Galego ao Socialismo | |
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| Leader | Rafa Villar |
| Founded | 2009 (2009) |
| Dissolved | 2021 |
| Succeeded by | Arredist Movement |
| Student wing | Erguer-Estudantes da Galiza |
| Youth wing | Isca! |
| Ideology | Galician nationalism Communism Feminism Galician independence Euroscepticism[1][2] |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | BNG |
| Trade union affiliation | Confederación Intersindical Galega |
| Galician Parliament | 1 / 75 Inside theBNG |
| Website | |
| mgs.gal | |
TheGalician Movement for Socialism (MGS,Movemento Galego ao Socialismo inGalician language) was aGaliciancommunist,pro-independence andfeminist organization. The MGS was born in March 2009, although its origins go back to the summer of 2006. The MGS works inside theGalician Nationalist Bloc and theConfederación Intersindical Galega.
The History of Galician Movement for Socialism can be divided into three basic periods:
The first period can be defined as opposition to what is considered a move away of theGalician Nationalist Bloc from some of its key objectives, especially theNational sovereignty and itsleftist ideology. The politicalpraxis of theBNG in thePSOE in the bipartiteXunta de Galicia (2005-2009) caused that militants of theGalician People's Union decided to leave that party to create a new organization within theBNG, under the name ofMovemento pola Base (MpB). They were joined by independent militants of the BNG (not attached to any internal group or party) militants and members off theConfederación Intersindical Galega in thecomarcas ofFerrolterra,Compostela andVigo, among them Antolín Alcántara,[7] Fermín Paz, Manuel Mera and Ramiro Oubiña, who were part of the executive of theCIG.
The MpB presented then its own candidacy to the National Council of theBNG, that was chosen in the XII National Assembly of theBNG. 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 theBNG. On 28 October 2007, the MpB formally constitutes itself as a political organization, being defined ideologically as "independentist" andsocialist and as aworking class organization.[8][9]
Between the months of December 2008 and January 2009 this current split between those in favor of creating a new political formation outside of theBNG and those who advocated to continue within that front. It was also an important element in the division the role of MpB in theCIG and its relations with theUPG 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 websitepolabase.net held a national assembly on February 7, 2009 where it was decided to abandon theBNG as the electoral platform of the organization and expressed the need for a newsovereigntist organization with presence in the institutions. This faction definitely abandoned theBNG on March 14, 2009. After the members of the Movement for Base who used the domainpolabase.net had abandoned theBNG, the majority sector of the Movemento pola Base that remained in theBNG (polabase.org) decided to give up the acronym and name, to avoid greater confrontation, and created a new organization called the Galician Movement for Socialism.
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 originalleftist andsovereigntist fundamental principles of theBNG.
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 ofTeo, A Coruña. At that meeting, the militancy officially set the ideological positions of the MGS. The MGS currently has several town councillors (inside the list of theGalician Nationalist Bloc) in the towns and cities ofGaliza likeSantiago de Compostela,Ourense,Ribadeo, ...
In theGalician elections of 2016 the party elected its first representative in theGalician Parliament: Noa Presas Bergantiños, in the electoral district ofOurense.
The MGS is anassembly organization based in different assemblies of area (comarcas level), with ability to set the political strategy of the national organization.
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 withleft-wingGalician nationalism nominally in theBNG and theCIG.
The presence in theBNG, MGS has two of the fifteen members of the National Executive.[10] As for the presence in theCIG 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 thecomarcas ofFerrolterra,Compostela andVigo, and its influence in the localBNG andCIG assemblies is notable.