Autonomous Socialist Party (France)

Autonomous Socialist Party

Parti socialiste autonome
Autonomous Socialist Party Parti socialiste autonome
General Secretary	Édouard Depreux
Founded	September 11, 1958; 63 years ago
Dissolved	April 3, 1960; 61 years ago
Membership (1960)	16,000
Ideology	Democratic socialism; Social-democracy
Political position	Left-wing
	Politics of France; Political parties; Elections;

The Autonomous Socialist Party (French: Parti socialiste autonome, PSA) was a splinter party from the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). It was founded in September 1958 in reaction against the SFIO stance on the Algerian War and its acceptance of the Gaullist May 1958 putsch. Half a dozen SFIO members of the French National Assembly and local elected officials joined the splinter party, as well as members from the (centrist) Radical Party, most notably Pierre Mendès France, former Prime Minister. None of the PSA deputies were reelected at the November 1958 legislative election. The PSA merged into the Unified Socialist Party in 1960 as one of its founding organisations.^[1]

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^ Bernard Ravenel, Quand la gauche se réinventait: Le PSU, histoire d'un parti visionnaire, 1960-1989, La Découverte, 2016 (more particularly the chapter 'La longue gestation du PSU', p.34) ISBN 9782707190307

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General Secretary	(1905−1918) Ludovic-Oscar Frossard (1918−1920) Paul Faure (1920−1940) Vacant (1940−1943) Daniel Mayer (1943−1946) Guy Mollet (1946−1969)
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Derivatives	French Communist Party Socialist Party of France – Jean Jaurès Union / Socialist Republican Union / National Popular Rally Internationalist Workers Party Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party Democratic Socialist Party Union of the Socialist Left / Unified Socialist Party / Union of Clubs for the Renewal of the Left / Union of Socialist Groups and Clubs Socialist Party
Alliances	Lefts Cartel (1924–1934) Popular Front (1936–1938) Tripartisme (1944–1947) Third Force (1947–1958) Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left (1965–1968)