Parti ouvrier français

The Parti ouvrier français ( POF , German  French Workers' Party ) was a party in France that existed from 1880 to 1902. It was one of the predecessor parties of the far more important Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO).

The POF was founded in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue , Karl Marx's son-in-law , under the name Parti ouvrier . It was a spin-off from the Fédération des travailleurs socialistes de France (FTSF), which had been set up a year earlier and whose course Guesde and Lafargue considered too reformist . In contrast, they represented a revolutionary Marxism . In 1893 the party was renamed Parti ouvrier français .

In 1902 the POF merged with the Blanquist Parti socialiste révolutionnaire (PSR) to form the Parti socialiste de France (PSdF). The revolutionary PSdF in turn united in 1905, under pressure from the Second International, with the reformist Parti socialiste français (PSF) to form the SFIO .

In addition to Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Marcel Cachin , Georges Vacher de Lapouge and Hubert Lagardelle were well-known members of the POF. The party had its strongholds in the Nord , Pas-de-Calais and Allier departments .

literature

C. Willard (1965). Le Mouvement socialiste en France, 1893–1905. Les guesdistes. Ed. sociales.

J. Verlhac (1997). La formation de l'unité socialiste (1898–1905). L'Harmattan.