Jewish Socialist Group
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Jewish Socialists' Group
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| Founded | 1970s |
| Affiliated | International Jewish Labor Bund |
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| http://www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/ | |
The Jewish Socialists' Group (JSG) is a Jewish socialist collective in Britain, formed in the 1970s.
JSG was founded in Manchester/Liverpool in 1974-1977 as lobby group campaigning against the fascist National Front and for the left to relate more positively to Jewish issues. A London branch formed in 1977. They describe themselves as a political organisation campaigning for Jewish rights and the rights of all oppressed minorities in building a socialist future.
The JSG supported the original Anti-Nazi League and was active in street-level militant anti-fascism. It participated in the Beyond the Fragments conference which sought to renew democratic socialism.
In the early 1980s, it was active in campaigning for peace in Israel/Palestine, becoming a founding member of the International Jewish Peace Union and the Campaign for Israel-Palestine Peace (CIPP).
It developed a perspective drawing on the tradition of the Bund, stressing Yiddishism, cultural pluralism and a commitment to the vitality of the diaspora. In this it worked with French neo-Bundist Richard Marienstrasse and the Medem Jewish Socialist Group in New York.
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