Pierre Frank (1906-1984) was a French Trotskyist leader. 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Trotskyism can refer to either the body of ideas associated with Leon Trotsky or the movement based on those ideas. ...

Frank was a member of the Communist League, the French Trotskyist organisation, in the 1930s. he was a part of the faction within the movement led by Pierre Molinier that was expelled from the Fourth International and was a member of the groups formed by Molinier. Pierre Molinier: Mêlée Erotique (circa 1968) Courtesy Patricia Laligant Gallery, New York, NY Pierre Molinier (April 13, 1900 - March 3, 1976) was a painter, photographer and maker of objects. He was born and lived his life in Bordeaux, France. ... Emblem of the Fourth International The Fourth International was an international organisation of Trotskyist communists. ...

When the Second World War broke out Frank was sent to Britain in order to continue legally publishing the movements documents. He issued a publication called International Correspondence but as an illegal resident was briefly imprisoned. Apart from the help of Betty Hamilton the British Trotskyists were not in sympathy with his views. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

At the end of the Second World War he returned to France and joined the leadership of the Internationalist Communist Party (PCI). Generally he was supportive of the positions put forward by the international leadership around Ernest Mandel and Michel Pablo supported by the American SWP. Ernest Esra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter etc. ... Michel Pablo (August 24, 1911 - February 17, 1996 ) was the pseudonym of Michel N. Raptis, a Greek Trotskyist leader. ... The Socialist Workers Party is a small communist political party in the United States. ...

He was important in maintaining the PCI in the 1950s and into the 1960s. When the PCI was dissolved into the new Communist League in 1968 he was a part of the leadership and continued in it until his death.

He was the author of a history of Trotskyism entitled The Long March of the Trotskyists.

External links

• Frank's writings from the Marxist Internet Archive
• The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet, providing a bio-bibliographical sketch of Pierre Frank