Socialist Party of France – Jean Jaurès Union
프랑스사회당(신사회주의)
A reformist socialist party founded in December 1933 by the neosocialist right wing expelled from the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in November 1933. Led by Pierre Renaudel, it included Marcel Déat, Adrien Marquet and Paul Ramadier. It failed to grow and in 1935 merged with two other parties into the Socialist Republican Union.
In depth
In the early 1930s a right wing formed inside the SFIO, then led by Léon Blum, under the influence of the world crisis and the rise of fascism in Europe. Its main figures were Renaudel, Déat, Marquet and Gustave Fourment; their ideas, marked by reformism, planism and authoritarianism and influenced by the Belgian socialist De Man, were called neosocialist. Against the SFIO's refusal to join governments as a minority partner, they repeatedly supported centre-left republican cabinets. At the party congress of July 1933 Marquet proposed 'Order, Authority, Nation' as the new socialist watchword, to which Blum replied that he was 'appalled'.
The SFIO National Council expelled them on 5 November 1933, and the expelled members formed the party in December. Renaudel presided over its parliamentary group, Ernest Lafont was its secretary, and Renaudel's paper La Vie socialiste became the neosocialists' organ. The party did not attract many activists or elected officials and was divided between a moderate wing, represented by Ramadier, and a more radical one. Marquet left in 1934 and Renaudel died in April 1935.
After Renaudel's death Déat opened negotiations with the Republican-Socialist Party and the French Socialist Party (Parti socialiste français) to coordinate their parliamentary work, and on 3 November 1935 the three parties merged into the Socialist Republican Union. After 1940 some neosocialists followed Déat into the collaborationist National Popular Rally. It is distinct from the similarly abbreviated French Social Party (Parti social français) of La Rocque.