Marceau Pivert (1895—1958) was a French schoolteacher, trade unionist, Socialist militant and journalist. Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution He was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud
Active in the Syndicat National des Instituteurs (SNI), a staunch supporter of laïcité and a pacifist after service in World War I, Pivert joined the Socialist Party (PS) and then the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) wing under Léon Blum (the section of the Party that had refused in 1920 adherence to the Comintern, as opposed to the new French Communist Party, PCF). The École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, or ENS-LSH, is one of the two French École normale supérieure (ENS an elite French Laïcité (laisiˈte is the French concept of a Secular society, connoting the absence of religious involvement in government affairs World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The Socialist Party ( Parti Socialiste, PS is the largest left-wing political party in France. André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 30 March 1950 was a French politician usually identified with the moderate left and three times the Prime Minister of France. The Comintern ( Com munist Intern ational also known as the Third International) was an international Communist organisation founded in Moscow The French Communist Party ( French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of
In the early 1930s, Pivert grouped the most left-wing members of the SFIO in his Gauche Révolutionnaire ("Revolutionary Left") tendency, to which Daniel Guérin was a member, one which opened itself to Trotskyism, initiating entryism as a tactic for the latter. Daniel Guérin ( May 19, 1904 - April 14, 1988) was a French anarchist and author best known for his work Anarchism Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which an organisation encourages members to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits
In 1936, when Blum formed the Popular Front government, he was pressured by Pivert to reject Capitalism. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Popular Front (French Front populaire) was an alliance of left-wing movements including the French Communist Party (PCF the Socialist Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where Witness to the spontaneous strikes around the country, Blum refused to allow for revolutionary conditions to arise. Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal by Employees to perform work. Pivert then wrote his best-known article, published on May 27, headlined Tout est possible! ("Everything Is Possible"), alluding to a social revolution (although never to a socialist one). The term social revolution may have different connotations depending on the speaker However, he was contradicted by the communist press organ L'Humanité (the PCF was a backer of the Blum government). L'Humanité ("Humanity" formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the The communist editorial read: Non! Tout n'est pas possible! ("No! Not Everything Is Possible!"). In consequence, Pivert cut off links with the government, writing to Blum that "I will not accept capitulation in front of Capitalism and the banks".
The Gauche Révolutionnaire left the SFIO to establish the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste Ouvrier et Paysan, PSOP), which had a hard time finding a place in-between the Socialists and the Stalinists. The Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party ( Parti socialiste ouvrier et paysan, PSOP) was an ephemeral socialist organisation in France, formed Stalinism is the political regime named after Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1929–1953 In fact, its ideology fluctuated from Marxist orthodoxy to a radical version of Reformism. Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Socialist Reformism is the belief that gradual democratic changes in a Society can ultimately change a society's fundamental economic relations and political structures In 1940, the PSOP was outlawed after the fall of France to Nazi Germany, through the orders of Vichy government leader Philippe Pétain. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944 Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951 generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain ( Maréchal Pétain)
Pivert exiled himself to Mexico, and supported the French Resistance. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. The French Resistance is the collective name used for the French Resistance movements which fought against the Nazi German Returned to France after World War II, he saw the PSOP divided between the wing that joined the PCF (which had acquired prestige after its active contribution to the Resistance), and the one that joined the SFIO - he himself opted for the latter. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
He became more moderate inside the SFIO, and his audience was curtailed. Pivert was regularly elected to the party leadership, but nonetheless stood for Algeria's independence and was hostile to the creation of a European Defence Community (contrary to the party line). Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's The European Defense Community ( EDC) was a plan proposed in 1950 by René Pleven, the French President of the Council (name of Prime Ministers till 1958 in response He antagonized the SFIO further after taking part in a delegation that visited the Soviet Union, and was voted out of his central position. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 According to some, Pivert had projected joining the new Parti Socialiste Autonome (PSA) created by Édouard Depreux and Alain Savary, but died before being able to carry out the merger. Édouard Depreux ( October 31, 1898 &mdash October 16, 1981) was a French socialist journalist Essayist and politician Alain Savary (April 25 1918 - February 2 1988 was a French Socialist politician deputy during the Fourth and Fifth Republic, chairman of the Socialist Party However, most of his followers in the SFIO entered the PSA later in 1958.