Workers' Party (France, 1991–2008)
French socialist political party
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The Workers' Party (French: Parti des Travailleurs, PT) was a French Trotskyist party. It was formed by the Trotskyist Internationalist Communist Party (PCI), led by Pierre Boussel, better known under his pseudonym Pierre Lambert, together with a number of other socialists with whom they worked in the Force Ouvrière union confederation.
Workers' Party Parti des Travailleurs | |
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| Abbreviation | PT |
| General Secretary | Daniel Gluckstein |
| Founded | November 11, 1991 |
| Dissolved | June 15, 2008 |
| Merger of | MPPT UAS |
| Headquarters | 87, Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, Paris |
| Ideology | Lambertism Trotskism Libertarian Marxism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | EIT |
Within the PT the former PCI was known as the Internationalist Communist Organisation. In reality, despite including communist, socialist and anarcho-syndicalist tendencies the PT was generally regarded as little more than a front for the Trotskyist PCI.
Its national secretary was Daniel Gluckstein (pseudonym: Seldjouk), who received less than 0.5% in the 2002 French presidential election.[1]
Gérard Schivardi, a candidate in the 2007 presidential elections under the PT, gained 0.34% of the votes.[2] In the 10 and 17 June 2007 French National Assembly elections, the party won no seats. Despite these low national results, the PT polled better in local elections.
The PT published a magazine called Informations Ouvrières (Workers' News).
In June 2008, the PT was dissolved into the new Independent Workers' Party (Parti ouvrier indépendant).