Colombia, Impulso Socialista and Grupo de Trabajadores Socialistas ARE MOVING TOWARDS UNIFICATION

Youth And Tradition

For a year and a half, Impulso Socialista -IS- (section of the International Socialist League -ISL- in Colombia) and the Grupo de Trabajadores Socialistas -GTS- have been acting in common in the face of national political events and promoting the international tasks and campaigns of the ISL. The GTS participated as a guest in the First World Congress of the ISL in December 2021 and with a full delegation at the Second Congress in March 2023. They will soon hold their unification congress.

This convergence of revolutionaries counts on the youthful energy of Impulso Socialista, whose militants grouped together during the vigorous 2018 university strike against the defunding of public higher education. They quickly linked up with the ISL and participated in its founding conference in 2019.

The Grupo de Trabajadores Socialistas contributes an important component of tradition. Some of its members have been part of the international current led by Argentine revolutionary Nahuel Moreno, who was exiled during the ‘70s in Colombia. The GTS vindicates this theoretical, programmatic, political and methodological legacy accumulated over almost half a century of struggle for the formation of a national and international Leninist party.

The new unified organization does not present itself as “the party of the Colombian socialist revolution.” In Colombia there are hundreds, thousands, of workers, women and youth who are prepared to fight for a revolutionary transformation of capitalist society, with whom a revolutionary alternative that gathers diverse experiences and traditions can be built.

The common action of IS and GTS, the joint elaboration of program and statutes, as well as the collective analysis of the national situation, has allowed them to position themselves in the face of the main events of the class struggle and to intervene in it. This is the basis of confidence on which the unification will take place. It will be another step forward in strengthening the International Socialist League.