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The Union of the Socialist Left (, UGS) was a French movement of left-wing activists, founded on 7–8 December 1957 by dissidents 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); former members of the
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, until then close to the Communist Party; social Christian trade-unionists ('' Ligue de la jeune République'' and the minority of the
Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens The French Confederation of Christian Workers (; CFTC) is one of the five major France, French confederation of trade unions, belonging to the Christian socialism, social Christian tradition. It was founded in 1919 as the Trade Union of Employe ...
(CFTC)). It was the first alliance between social Christians and
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. The UGS merged with the Autonomous Socialist Party in 1960 to form the Unified Socialist Party (PSU).


Notable members

* Yvan Craipeau * Jean Maitron * Claude Bourdet * Hubert Beuve-Méry


See also

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Unified Socialist Party (France) The Unified Socialist Party (, PSU) was a socialist political party in France, founded on April 3, 1960. It was originally led by Édouard Depreux (from its creation to 1967). History PSU was born through the fusion of the Autonomous Social ...
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French Fourth Republic The French Fourth Republic () was the republican government of France from 27 October 1946 to 4 October 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution of 13 October 1946. Essentially a reestablishment and continuation of the French Third R ...
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French Fifth Republic The Fifth Republic () is France's current republic, republican system of government. It was established on 4 October 1958 by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of France, Constitution of the Fifth Republic.. The Fifth Republic emerged fr ...


References

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