Independent Socialists (France)
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The Independent Socialists were a French political movement and, at times, parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies of France
during the French Third Republic
. The movement was strong from 1880 till the fall of the Republic in 1940.
At first, the Independent Socialists were a diverse set of socialists who refused to affiliate with an organized party. Indeed, before the creation of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in 1905, French socialism was divided between the French Socialist Party
(PSF), the Socialist Party of France
(PSdF) and the French Workers' Party
(POF). Later, the name was applied to parliamentarians and local politicians who believed they held their legitimacy from voters and thus refused to follow the instructions of party leaders. Indeed, the SFIO, the main socialist party, had a strong party organization, something relatively unique in the Third Republic.
In the end, following the creation of the SFIO, the name was used to refer to those who did not wish to join the SFIO. A number of those people later joined the Republican-Socialist Party
(PRS).
Chamber of Deputies of France
Chamber of Deputies was the name given to several parliamentary bodies in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:* 1814–1848 during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, the Chamber of Deputies was the Lower chamber of the French Parliament, elected by census suffrage.*...
during the French Third Republic
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...
. The movement was strong from 1880 till the fall of the Republic in 1940.
At first, the Independent Socialists were a diverse set of socialists who refused to affiliate with an organized party. Indeed, before the creation of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in 1905, French socialism was divided between the French Socialist Party
French Socialist Party (1902)
The French Socialist Party was founded in 1902. It came from the merger of the "possibilist" Federation of the Socialist Workers of France , Jean Allemane's Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party and some independent socialist politicians like Jean Jaurès...
(PSF), the Socialist Party of France
Socialist Party of France (1902)
The Socialist Party of France was founded in 1902, during a congress in Commentry, by the merger of the Marxist French Workers' Party led by Jules Guesde and the Blanquist Central Revolutionary Committee of Édouard Vaillant....
(PSdF) and the French Workers' Party
French Workers' Party
The Parti Ouvrier Français was the first Marxist party in France, created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Marx's son-in-law...
(POF). Later, the name was applied to parliamentarians and local politicians who believed they held their legitimacy from voters and thus refused to follow the instructions of party leaders. Indeed, the SFIO, the main socialist party, had a strong party organization, something relatively unique in the Third Republic.
In the end, following the creation of the SFIO, the name was used to refer to those who did not wish to join the SFIO. A number of those people later joined the Republican-Socialist Party
Republican-Socialist Party
The Republican-Socialist Party was a French socialist political party during the French Third Republic, founded in 1911 and dissolved in 1934. It was founded by socialists who refused to join the SFIO founded in 1905. The PRS was a non-Marxist "reformist socialist" party located between the SFIO...
(PRS).