Socialist Party of France (1902)

Not to be confused with French Socialist Party (1902) or Socialist Party (France).

Socialist Party of France Parti socialiste de France
Leader	Jules Guesde
Founded	1902 (1902)
Dissolved	25 April 1905 (1905-04-25)
Merger of	Socialist Revolutionary Party French Workers' Party
Merged into	French Section of the Workers' International
Headquarters	Paris, France
Ideology	Socialism Anti-capitalism
Political position	Left-wing
Colours	Red
Politics of France Political parties Elections

The Socialist Party of France (Parti socialiste de France) was a socialist political party.

The party was founded in 1902 during a congress in Commentry by the merger of the Marxist French Workers' Party led by Jules Guesde and the Blanquist Socialist Revolutionary Party of Édouard Vaillant.

Unlike the French Socialist Party of Jean Jaurès, it refused to support bourgeois governments and so to take part in the Bloc des gauches coalition.

However, the two parties merged in 1905 under the pressure of the Second International into the French Section of the Workers' International.

Further reading

• D. A. MacGibbon (January 1911). "French Socialism Today". Journal of Political Economy. Part 1. Vol. 19. No. 1. pp. 36−46.
• D. A. MacGibbon (February 1911). "French Socialism Today". Journal of Political Economy. Part 2. Vol. 19. No. 2. pp. 98−110.

External links

• "Compte rendu du 1er Congrès national, tenu à Commentry les 26, 27 et 28 septembre 1902". Gallica.