Socialist Federation of Switzerland

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The Swiss Socialist Federation ( French: Fédération socialiste suisse , FSS) was founded in 1939 and banned by the Federal Council in 1941.

history

The parent party of the SFS / FSS is the Social Democratic Party . In the 1930s, there was wing fighting within the SPS. The majority of the members of the SPS were against an amalgamation of the Social Democrats with the Communists in a popular front. As part of the guideline movement , this majority moved towards the political center. The SPS gave up the goal of a dictatorship of the proletariat and said yes to national defense. Part of the left wing resisted this development under the leadership of Léon Nicole . When this wing of the party supported the Hitler-Stalin Pact , it was expelled from the SPS in September 1939. The majority of the SP party comrades in Geneva and Vaud supported Léon Nicole. Thus, in autumn 1939, the Parti socialiste genevois and the Parti socialiste vaudois came into being . Both groups ran for the Swiss parliamentary elections in 1939 with their own lists. With the support of the Geneva and Vaud sections of the Communist Party, which were banned in 1937, they won 4 seats in the National Council. Of the 6 candidates from PSG, Léon Nicole and Jacques Dicker and from PSV Ernest Gloor and Eugène Masson were elected to the federal parliament. The party was banned by the Federal Council on June 27, 1941. A short time later the representatives of the SFS / FSS were stripped of their seats in the National Council. The party comrades merged in 1943 with the supporters of the Communist Party, which was also banned, to form the Labor Party (PdA) .

Important members

  • Léon Nicole
  • Jacques Dicker
  • Ernest Gloor
  • Eugène Masson

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