Socialist Party of Canada (WSM)
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Socialist Party of Canada
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| Leader | none/membership conference |
| Founded | 1931 |
| Preceded by | Socialist Party of Canada |
| Headquarters | Victoria, BC |
| Newspaper | Western Socialist (1933-1980), Socialist Fulcrum (1968-1984), Socialisme Mondial (1973-1980), Imagine (2002-) |
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Impossibilism Socialism Classical Marxism Anti-Leninism |
| International affiliation | World Socialist Movement |
| Colours | Red |
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The Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) was founded in June 1931 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by several former members of the Socialist Party of Canada. These included George Armstrong and Jim Milne, author of a history of the party and its predecessor. While Jim Brownrigg claimed continuity with the original party, this claim was disputed by various members of both the original party and the new party (Harry Morrison, Isaac Rab, Jack McDonald, Bill Pritchard, R. M. Roddy) . The new party adopted the policies of the Socialist Party of Great Britain which rejected Leninism, social democracy and trade unionism in favour of a belief in "revolutionary Marxism and democratic revolution".
As the fractured groups of the left coalesced to form the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the Socialist Party did not make great headway. The Winnipeg-based Socialist Party of Canada remained outside of the CCF (and its successor, the New Democratic Party), rejecting its evolutionary socialist approach as being "reformist". While the Socialist Party of Canada (British Columbia) (which was founded in 1932 by Ernest Winch independently of the Socialist Party of Canada founded in Winnipeg) joined and eventually merged with the CCF to form the British Columbia CCF. The Socialist Party of Canada remained independent of the broader socialist movement, and spread its message by holding town hall meetings, open air rallies, and distributing literature at farmers markets and street corners.
In October 1933, the party launched the New Western Socialist Journal, a periodical, to help bring publicity to the party. The first two issues criticized the CCF and the Communist Party of Canada for allegedly compromising with capitalism. The SPC never found a reason to change its attitude towards the two parties.
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