Marceau Pivert

Marceau Pivert (* 1895, † 1958 ) was a French politician of socialism. He was in the 1930s a leader of the left wing of the French Section of the Workers' International Section Française de l' International ouvrière ( SFIO ) and Minister Léon Blum.

Biography

Pivert came from middle-class family. 1915 drafted into military service, he was poisoned during a gas attack, fell seriously ill and was released in 1917. He joined the League of Human Rights and the Freemasons and became a member of the teachers union. In 1924 he joined the SFIO; under his leadership, the SFIO section in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, should one of the strongest organizations of the party are in the thirties.

Pivert belonged to the flow which was established by Jean Zyromski bataille Socialiste ( Socialist Struggle) and sat on the Board since 1933 the SFIO. In the thirties he became known as the leader of the extreme left of the party. After February 6, 1934, he operated the building of a socialist self-defense formation and made ​​a significant contribution for the realization of the united front of the workers' organizations.

In March 1935, he met Trotsky in his French exile in Domène (Isère). After the break with Zyromski, as his right hand he had been considered for a long time, Pivert formed end September 1935 within the SFIO a new trend. The Gauche revolutionnaire ( revolutionary left ) maintained close contact with the London office left socialist parties and groups. After the electoral victory of the Popular Front and the beginning of the mass strike of French workers Pivert published in May 1936 at the central organ of the SFIO, Le Populaire, an article which, through its title Tout est possible ( " Everything is possible" ) widely sensation.

In the Popular Front government of Léon Blum, he was responsible for the press, radio and cinema. In January 1937, he joined in protest against the government's policy, which yielded to the pressure of the bourgeoisie increasingly back. As the lead of the SFIO, the Gauche revolutionnaire declared in April 1937 for dissolved, he submitted to party discipline. After the party leadership had suspended his membership for three years in April 1938 and the Seine Federation, a stronghold of the socialist left resolved, Pivert founded in July 1938, the Parti Socialiste Ouvrier et Paysan ( PSOP ), with about 10,000 members, about a third the former supporters of the Gauche revolutionnaire included.

The PSOP participated in the London office and its successor organizations International Workers Front ( IAF) and the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre ( IRMZ ). On behalf of the IAF Pivert traveled to the USA in August 1939. In America, surprised by the outbreak of war, he had been living since 1940 in Mexico. With Julián Gorkin, Victor Serge, Gustav regulators and others, he there formed an international discussion circle that became the target of violent attacks on the part of the journalistic pro-Moscow Communists and supporters of Joseph Stalin. In 1946, Pivert back to France and joined again to the SFIO. He took, in contrast to that Party for the Independence of Algeria.