Our History
Ever since human labor became the source of surplus value, it has been enslaved and exploited. On the one hand, surplus is appropriated by the ruling classes to enrich themselves, on the other hand, working people struggle to free themselves from the exploitation. Class struggles, in every era, have radically modified relations of production to give rise to new socio-political systems, where labor has found itself under new bondage.
The New Socialist Movement (NSM) is the working people’s movement to emancipate themselves from bondage and set free the enormous productive forces shackled by the ruling classes - slave owners, landlords, capitalists - to serve base monetary interests. NSM is rooted in the present and moving towards the future - defining and defeating the status quo that enslaves the mankind.
NSM is a movement of the grass root workers which expanded and advanced with various streams of struggling masses coming together. Beginning with the militant trade union movement under the banner of Gujarat Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), the formation of Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) in 1990 led to the struggle for civil and democratic rights. The New Socialist Movement emerged from the need for a larger struggle - a struggle cutting across boundaries of immediate issues and contradictions. NSM is a political movement to organize working people for a decisive political battle.
NSM evolved in a globalized world of shrinking democracies. We believe in the necessity of a democratic struggle to defend the rights of working people, especially the marginalized and the minorities. Capitalism has lost its steam for development of productive forces and cannot, therefore, spearhead development. A new socio-political system based on democracy, equality, and social ownership of the means of production, must replace the moribund world we live in.
