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The Autonomous Socialist Party (, PSA) was a splinter party from the
French Section of the Workers' International The French Section of the Workers' International (, SFIO) was a major socialist political party in France which was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the present Socialist Party. The SFIO was founded in 1905 as the French representativ ...
(SFIO). It was founded in September 1958 in reaction against the SFIO stance on the
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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 Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France (; 11 January 190718 October 1982) was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a government supported by a c ...
, 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.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'
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Members

* Édouard Depreux (general secretary, member of the National Assembly) * Alain Savary (deputy general secretary, member of the National Assembly) * Robert Verdier (deputy general secretary, member of the National Assembly) *
Raoul Bleuse Raoul Bleuse (9 September 1895 in Ribemont – 8 June 1984 in Alfortville), was a French politician. Early life He voluntarily enlisted in the army in October 1913, took part in World War I, and was demobilized in August 1919. In 1921 he enlist ...
* Daniel Mayer *
Pierre Mendès France Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France (; 11 January 190718 October 1982) was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party, he headed a government supported by a c ...


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