The Independent Workers' Party (french: Parti ouvrier indépendant, POI) is a French
Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
political party founded in June 2008 after the dissolution of its predecessor, the
Workers' Party. It claimed 10,071 members at its founding congress in 2008, and 8,000 members on its second congress in 2012.
Amongst its four General Secretaries are former presidential candidates
Gérard Schivardi and
Daniel Gluckstein
Daniel Gluckstein (born 3 March 1953 in Paris) is a French Trotskyism, Trotskyist politics, politician best known for running in the 2002 French presidential election, French presidential election of 2002 as the candidate of the Workers' Party (Fr ...
.
See also
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Politics of France
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List of political parties in France
References
2008 establishments in France
Communist parties in France
Political parties established in 2008
Political parties of the French Fifth Republic
Trotskyist organizations in France
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