The Socialist Equality Party (France) (''Parti de l'égalité socialiste'', PES) is the French section of the

Trotskyite Trotskyism (, ) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Trotsky described himself as an ...

International Committee of the Fourth International The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is a public faction of the Fourth International founded in 1953. Today, two Trotskyist List of Trotskyist internationals, internationals claim to be the continuations of the ICFI; o ...

. In November 2016 a long-standing sympathizing group of the

held a founding congress to establish themselves as a full section of the ICFI. As part of the congress international delegates of the ICFI ratified their membership as the Socialist Equality Party (France), or Parti de l'égalité socialiste (PES) in French. PES includes a number of members of Sri Lankan origin who sought asylum in France due to the effects of the Sri Lankan Civil War, some of whom were members of the

Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) The Socialist Equality Party is a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1968 as the Revolutionary Communist League by former student members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) who joined the International Committ ...

or its predecessor organization, the Revolutionary Communist League, at the time of their flight while many were won to Trotskyism during their exile. These Sri Lankan PES members played a leading role in making a historic translation of Trotsky’s seminal work,

The Revolution Betrayed ''The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?'' () is a book published in 1936 by the former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky. The book criticized the Soviet Union's actions and development following the death of Vladimir ...

, into Tamil in 2024.

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