Socialist-Communist Union (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Socialist-Communist Union (French: Union socialiste-communiste, U.S.-C.), later renamed the Socialist-Communist Party (French: Parti socialiste-communiste), was a socialist political party in France between 1923 and 1932.The party was founded in Boulogne-sur-Seine on April 29, 1923, through the merger of two splinter-groups of the French Communist Party; the Federal Socialist Union (formed in December 1922, formed by the Raoul Verfeuil-led rightist tendency of the Communist Party which opposed the integration of the party into the Communist International) and L-O Frossard's United Communist Party. Frossard had been the First Secretary of the Communist Party but left the party and founded the United Communist Party on January 2, 1923, taking with him several intellectuals and municipal councillors (especially from the Paris region).The mayors of the Parisian suburbs of Boulogne-sur-Seine, Issy, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen, Le Pre-Saint-Gervais and Pantin belonged to the party.Prominent members of the party included Georges Pioch, Victor Meric and Ernest Lafont.