The Workers' Party (french: Parti des Travailleurs, PT) was a French

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party. It was formed by the

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(PCI), led by Pierre Boussel, better known under his pseudonym

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, together with a number of other socialists with whom they worked in the Force Ouvrière union confederation. Within the ''PT'' the former ''PCI'' was known as the

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. In reality, despite including

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, socialist and

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tendencies the ''PT'' was generally regarded as little more than a front for the Trotskyist ''PCI''. Its national secretary was Daniel Gluckstein (pseudonym: Seldjouk), who received less than 0.5% in the

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, candidate in the 2007 presidential elections under the PT, gained 0.34% of the votes. In the 10 and 17 June 2007

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, the party won no seats. Despite these low national results, the PT polled better in local elections. The ''PT'' published a magazine called ''Informations Ouvrières'' (''Workers' News''). In June 2008, the PT was dissolved into the new Independent Workers' Party (''Parti ouvrier indépendant'')

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