Socialist Revolutionary Party (France)
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The Socialist Revolutionary Party (, PSR) was a French Blanquist
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...
founded in 1898 and dissolved in 1901. It is indirectly one of the founding factions of 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), founded in 1905. The PSR was the new name given, in 1898, to the Central Revolutionary Committee (CRC), a blanquist party founded in 1881. The CRC had been strengthened by the formation of the Revolutionary Communist Alliance (ACR) by dissident members of the reformist Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (POSR). Due to the support of the ACR, the PSR became the second largest
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political party in France behind the French Workers' Party. The PSR was led by Édouard Vaillant, who sought to be the middle ground between moderate socialists ( Jean Jaurès, Paul Brousse) and Marxists (
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, Paul Lafargue). The PSR, however, later merged with the French Workers' Party (POF) to form the Socialist Party of France (PSdF). The PSdF was one of the two founding members of 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) in 1905.


Notable members

* Madame Sorgue * Édouard Vaillant


See also

* History of the Left in France *
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 ...
* Socialist Party of France * French Workers' Party Defunct political parties in France Political parties of the French Third Republic History of socialism Socialist parties in France Second International parties 1898 establishments in France Political parties established in 1898 1901 disestablishments in France Political parties disestablished in 1901 {{Europe-socialist-party-stub