Socialist Parties in France - Socialist Party, French Section of the Workers' International, Popular Front, New Anticapitalist Party (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Socialist Party, French Section of the Workers' International, Popular Front, New Anticapitalist Party, Citizen and Republican Movement, Left Party, French Workers' Party, Unified Socialist Party, Unitarian Left, Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, Federation of the Socialist Workers of France, Kanak Socialist Liberation, National Union for Independence, Party of Kanak Liberation, Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party, Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party, Oceanian Democratic Rally, Melanesian Progressive Union, Socialist Revolutionary Party, Central Revolutionary Committee, Workers and Peasants Party, The Progressives, Proletarian Unity Party, Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement, Revolutionary Communist Alliance, Socialist Party of France, Convention of Republican Institutions, French Socialist Party, Catalan Workers' Left, Possibilism, Groupes d'action revolutionnaire internationalistes, Union of Clubs for the Renewal of the Left, People's Union for Wallis and Futuna, United Guadeloupe, Socialism and Realities, Democratic Forces of Guiana, Guianese Socialist Party, Union of Socialist Groups and Clubs, Walwari, Pluralist Left. Excerpt: The Socialist Party (French: , PS) is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. The party replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in 1969, and is currently led by Martine Aubry. The PS first won power in 1981, when its candidate Francois Mitterrand was elected President of the Fifth Republic in the 1981 presidential election. Under Mitterrand, the party achieved a governing majority in the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1993. PS leader Lionel Jospin lost his bid to succeed Mitterrand as president in the 1995 presidential election against Gaullist...