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French Workers' Party

French evolutionary Marxist party (1880–1902)

Field	Value
name	French Workers' Party
native_name	Parti Ouvrier Français
logo	POFlogo1880.jpg
colorcode	Red
leader1_title	Founders
leader1_name	Jules Guesde
Paul Lafargue
foundation
split	Federation of the Socialist Workers of France
dissolution
merged	Socialist Party of France
ideology	Socialism
Marxism
position	Left-wing
colours	Red
country	France

Paul Lafargue Marxism The French Workers' Party (, POF) was the French socialist party created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx's son-in-law (famous for having written The Right to Be Lazy, which criticized work as such, criticizing heavily liberal moral frameworks of "Right to Work"). A revolutionary party, it aimed to abolish capitalism and replace it with a communist society.

The party originated with a secession from Federation of the Socialist Workers' Party of France, which was founded in 1879, after a split with Paul Brousse's possibilists. The party's programme, written by Guesde with input from Marx, Lafargue and Friedrich Engels, was approved at the opening congress. The party officially became the POF in 1893.

In 1902, the party merged with the Blanquist Central Revolutionary Committee to form the Socialist Party of France and finally merged in 1905 with Jean Jaurès' French Socialist Party to form the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). Marcel Cachin, who would lead the split in 1920 which led to the creation of the French Communist Party and edited L'Humanité newspaper, became a member of the POF in 1891.

The Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Loire and Allier were the principal bastions of POF electoral strength.

Principal members

Jules Guesde (1845–1922), founding member and elected deputy
Paul Lafargue (1842–1911), son-in-law of Karl Marx and elected deputy
Marcel Cachin (1869–1958), member from 1891, led the SFIO Tours split in 1920, future director of L'Humanité
(1861–1955), professor (Greek Philosophy) and future elected deputy for the SFIO
(1873–1953), elected deputy Isère (1898–1910)
Bernard Cadenat (1853–1930), shoemaker, elected deputy Bouches-du-Rhône (1898–1919 and 1924–1930) and mayor of Marseille (1910–1912)
Ulysse Pastre (1864–1930), researcher and elected deputy Gard (1898–1910)
(1852–1909), printer, elected deputy Hérault (1898–1909) and president of the typography workers union
(1860–1936), barber, elected deputy Seine (1893–1898) and founder of the coiffeurs workers union who quit the SFIO in 1914 to found a small workers party promoing a return to class war
Hubert Lagardelle (1875–1968), revolutionary syndicalist
, elected deputy for Marseille in 1898–1910, mayor of Toulon (1893) and vice president of the General Council (1914–1915)
Jean Bertrand, elected deputy for Corbeil
Pierre Mélin (1863–1929) luthier, vice president of the Valenciennes's Labour Court and elected deputy
Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854–1936), antisemitic anthropologist and eugenist, Attorney of the Republic and professor

References

Bibliography

French

C. Willard C. (1965). Le Mouvement socialiste en France, 1893-1905. Les guesdistes. Ed. sociales.
J. Verlhac (1997). La formation de l’unité socialiste (1898-1905). L'Harmattan. Reissue of a memoir published in 1947

References

Moss, Bernard H.. (1976). "The Origins of the French Labor movement 1830-1914: the socialism of skilled workers". University of California press.

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