The Unified Socialist Party (French: Parti Socialiste Unifié, PSU) was a socialist political party in France, founded on April 3, 1960. It has been led by Édouard Depreux (from its creation to 1967), and by Michel Rocard (1967-1973). The neutrality of this introduction is disputed. ... A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Edouard Depreux was a French politician in the 1950s. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Michel Rocard, French politician Michel Rocard (born August 23, 1930) is a French Socialist politician, former French Prime minister, and currently a member of the European Parliament. ...

1981 presidential election poster for PSU candidate Huguette Bouchardeau.

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History

PSU was born through the fusion of the Autonomous Socialist Party, the Socialist Left Union, and the group around the journal Tribune du Communisme. The latter was a splinter-group of the French Communist Party (PCF), which had left after the 1956 inner conflict caused by the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The three groups were closely linked from 1958. In 1961, the newly-formed party was joined by Pierre Mendès-France, after he left the liberal Radical Party. The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Soviet Union AVH Hungarian government, various nationalist militias Commanders Yuri Andropov Pál Maléter, Gergely Pongrátz, József Dudás Strength 150,000 troops, 6,000 tanks 100,000+ demonstrators (some later armed), unknown number of soldiers Casualties 7,000 KIA 25,000 - 50,000 KIA, 1... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Pierre Mendès France Pierre Mendès France (Paris, 11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. ... This article discusses liberalism as a major political ideology as it developed and stands currently. ... The Radical Party (Parti Radical or Républicains Radicaux et Radicaux-Socialistes, Radical Republicans and Radical Socialists), was a major French political party of the early to mid 20th century, originally considered radical due to its anti-clericalism. ...

In 1965, the PSU alligned with the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO, the main socialist group, known as the Socialist Party, PS, after 1969) and the PCF in supporting the candidature François Mitterrand in the presidential election. In contrast with the established socialist parties, the PSU also supported the student riots of 1968; it subsequently moved away from cooperation with the PS, and developed its own program, based on autogestion. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Section Française de lInternationale Ouvrière (SFIO), founded in 1905, was the French section of the Second International. ... The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS), founded in 1969, is the main opposition party in France. ... (help· info) (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was a French politician. ... Second Round First Round See also President of France France Politics of France Categories: | | ... May 1968 poster: Be young and shut up. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Worker Self-Management is a form of workplace decision-making in which the employees themselves agree on choices (for issues like customer care, general production methods, scheduling, division of labour etc. ...

Michel Rocard was the PSU candidate for the 1969 presidential elections, obtaining 3.61% of the vote in the first round. Second Round First Round See also President of France France Politics of France Categories: | | ...

The party again campaigned for Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential elections - a move which encounterd the opposition of the PSU's own supporters at grassroots level; the PSU did not sign Mitterrand's Common programme of the Left, and a sizeable section of the party militancy, led by Michel Rocard and Robert Chapuis, left to join the Socialist Party (beliving that they could better function as a leftist tendency with the PS). Second Round First Round See also President of France France Politics of France Categories: | | ... In politics, a grassroots political movement, inspired by the German word Graswurzel, is a movement organized by a network of citizens. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... The word militant has come to refer to any individual or party engaged in aggressive physical or verbal combat, normally for a cause. ...

PSU introduced Huguette Bouchardeau as its candidate for the 1981 presidential elections; she obtained 1.11% of the vote in the first round. In the 1988 presidential elections, the PSU supported the communist dissident candidate Pierre Juquin, who obtained 2.09% of the votes in the first round. In 1989, PSU merged with the New Left for Socialism, Ecology and Self-management (Juquin's movement), and formed the Red and Green Alternatives (nowadays integrated in the group Les Alternatifs). This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Second Round First Round See also President of France France Politics of France Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in France | 1988 elections ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

National Secretaries of the PSU

• 1960 - 1967 : Édouard Depreux
• 1967 - 1973 : Michel Rocard
• 1973 - 1974 : Robert Chapuis
• 1974 - 1979 : Michel Mousel
• 1979 - 1981 : Huguette Bouchardeau
• 1981 - 1983 : Jacques Salvator
• 1983 - 1984 : Serge Depaquit
• 1984 - 1989 : Jean-Claude Le Scornet

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References

• Malfroy, Soïg, La fédération du PSU des Côtes-du-Nord face au Programme commun, IEP Rennes 2003-2004