International Socialist Group
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International Socialist Group
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| Leader | Collective leadership (Central Committee) |
| Founded | 9 May 1987 |
| Dissolved | 2009 |
| Headquarters | London |
| Ideology | Ecosocialism, Trotskyism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | Fourth International |
| European Parliament group | None |
| Colours | Red |
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| www.isg-fi.org.uk | |
The International Socialist Group (ISG) was a Trotskyist organisation in Britain. It was the British section of the Fourth International (FI) until July 2009 when it dissolved into Socialist Resistance.
The ISG was the result of the 9 May 1987 fusion of two organisations, the International Group and the Socialist Group.
Former members of the Socialist League established the International Group in 1985. Sharp differences had developed within the Socialist League majority during the 1984-85 miners' strike. Initially, the FI recognised the International Group as individual members of the FI and the Socialist League as its section. The International Group and subsequently the ISG attracted several waves of ex-SL members into its organisation, beginning with a group of long time International Marxist Group leaders in 1985. It continued to win over established and emerging Socialist League minority tendencies and disaffected branches for several years.
The Socialist Group represented the continuity of the old Workers Socialist League which was expelled from Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League in 1974 and merged with the International-Communist League as the new WSL in 1981 before being expelled in 1984.
The two groups merged in order to re-establish a British Section of the Fourth International after a breakdown of the Socialist League. The fusion conference, on 9 and 10 May 1987, heard greetings from leaders of the Socialist Left in the German Green Party, the Fourth International and three US groups (the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, Socialist Action and Solidarity). It began with a minutes silence to salute three Trotskyist leaders and eight Provisional IRA volunteers who had died in the preceding year.
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