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(SFIO); former

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, until then close to the

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;

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trade-unionists (''

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'' and the minority of the

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(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).

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Yvan Craipeau Yvan Craipeau (24 September 1911, La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée – 13 December 2001) was a French Trotskyist activist. Born in La Roche-sur-Yon, he helped found a local independent Marxist organisation while he was still in his teens. Expelled from ...

Jean Maitron Jean Maitron (17 December 1910 – 16 November 1987) was a French historian specialist of the labour movement. A pioneer of such historical studies in France, he introduced it to University and gave it its archives base, by creating in 1949 the ...

Claude Bourdet Claude Bourdet (28 October 1909 – 20 March 1996) was a writer, journalist, polemist, and militant French politician. Peronal life Bourdet was a son of the dramatic author Édouard Bourdet and the poet Catherine Pozzi, was born and died in Pari ...

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