Workers and Peasants Party (France)

Workers and Peasants Party

Parti ouvrier et paysan
Workers and Peasants Party Parti ouvrier et paysan
Abbreviation	POP
Leader	Louis Sellier
Founder	Louis Sellier; Jean Garchery; Charles Joly; Louis Castellaz; Camille Renault; Louis Gélis; Charles Auffra
Founded	December 22, 1929
Dissolved	December 21, 1930
Split from	PCF
Merged into	PUP
Ideology	Bukharinism
Political position	Left-wing to Far-left
	Politics of France; Political parties; Elections;

AbbreviationPOP

LeaderLouis Sellier

FounderLouis Sellier
Jean Garchery
Charles Joly
Louis Castellaz
Camille Renault
Louis Gélis
Charles Auffra

FoundedDecember 22, 1929

The Workers and Peasants Party (Parti ouvrier et paysan) was a short lived communist splinter party in France in 1929-1930.

On November 24, 1929 six municipal councilors were expelled by the French Communist Party, Louis Sellier (ancien secrétaire général du PCF en 1923-1924), Jean Garchery, Charles Joly, Louis Castellaz, Camille Renault, Louis Gélis. Charles Auffray, the mayor of Clichy was also expelled. This was during the Comintern wide drive against "right oppositionists" and "Bukharinites". On December 22, 1929 the expelled councilors formed the new party.

In December 1930 the group joined with other groups to found the Party of Proletarian Unity.

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General Secretary	Ludovic-Oscar Frossard (1921–1923) Louis Sellier and Albert Treint (1923–1924) Louis Sellier (1924) Pierre Semard (1924–1929) Henri Barbé, Pierre Célor, Benoît Frachon and Maurice Thorez (1929–1930) Maurice Thorez (1930–1950) Jacques Duclos (1950–1953) Maurice Thorez (1953–1964) Waldeck Rochet (1964–1969) Georges Marchais (1969–1972) Waldeck Rochet (1972) Georges Marchais (1972–1994) Robert Hue (1994–2001) Marie-George Buffet (2001–2010) Pierre Laurent (2010–2018) Fabien Roussel (2018–present)
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Publications	L'Humanité Le Travailleur de Lot-et-Garonne Le Travailleur du Centre Ouest Le Travailleur du Loiret L'Enchaîné du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais Front rouge La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime La Voix de l'Est Le Prolétaire normand Les Lettres Françaises Pif Gadget
Derivatives	Socialist-Communist Union Workers and Peasants Party Proletarian Unity Party French Popular Party Federation of Marxist-Leninist Circles in France / Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of France Workers' Communist Party of France Convention for a Progressive Alternative Pole of Communist Revival in France Movement of Progressives
Related	Popular Front (1936–1938) French Committee of National Liberation (1940–1947) Plural Left (1997–2002) Left Front (2008–present)
Parliamentary groups	National Assembly Senate

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