Socialist Party of France (1902)

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Socialist Party of France
Parti socialiste de France
Leader Jules Guesde
Founded1902;123 years ago (1902)
Dissolved25 April 1905;120 years ago (1905-04-25)
Merger of Socialist Revolutionary Party
French Workers' Party
Merged into French Section of the Workers' International
Headquarters Paris, France
Ideology Socialism
Anti-capitalism
Political position Left-wing
Colours  Red

The Socialist Party of France (Parti socialiste de France) was a socialist political party.

The party 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 Socialist Revolutionary Party of Édouard Vaillant.

Unlike the French Socialist Party of Jean Jaurès, it refused to support bourgeois governments and so to take part in the Bloc des gauches coalition.

However, the two parties merged in 1905 under the pressure of the Second International into the French Section of the Workers' International.

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