Independent Workers' Party

The Independent Workers' Party (French: Parti ouvrier indépendant, POI) is a French Marxist political party founded in June 2008 after the dissolution of its predecessor, the Workers' Party. It claimed 10,071 members at its founding congress in 2008, and 8,000 members on its second congress in 2012.[2][3]

Independent Workers' Party
Parti ouvrier indépendant
LeaderCollective leadership
(Central Committee)
Founded15 June 2008; 16 years ago (15 June 2008)
Preceded byWorkers' Party
Headquarters87, Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, Paris
Membership10,071[citation needed]
IdeologyMarxism
Proletarian internationalism
Factions:
Communism
Trotskyism
Anarcho-syndicalism
Political positionLeft-wing[1] to far-left
National affiliationNew Popular Front (2024–present)
New Ecologic and Social People's Union (2022-2024)
Colours    Red and black
National Assembly
1 / 577
Senate
0 / 348
European Parliament
0 / 79
Website
partiouvrierindependant-poi.fr

Amongst its four General Secretaries are former presidential candidates Gérard Schivardi and Daniel Gluckstein, who were members of a Trotskyist current within the party. Gluckstein was suspended following a leadership dispute in 2015, leading to the faction splitting and founding the Workers' Party.[4]

Jérôme Legavre was elected the party's only Member of Parliament in the 2022 French legislative election.[5]

Election results

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European Parliament

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Election Leader Votes % Seats +/− EP Group
2024[a] Manon Aubry 2,432,976 9.87 (#4)
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  1. ^ Run in a joint list with LFI, REV, GES, Péyi-A and PLR, that won 9 seats in total.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Parti Ouvrier indépendant | Election Présidentielle 2012". France Télévisions. 2012-02-17. Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2018-05-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Le manifeste de fondation du Parti Ouvrier Indépendant" [The founding manifesto of the Independent Workers' Party]. Parti Ouvrier Indépendant (in French). 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  3. ^ "AFP: Après le Parti des Travailleurs, naissance du Parti ouvrier indépendant" [AFP: After the Workers' Party, birth of the Independent Workers' Party] (in French). 2012-03-14. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  4. ^ "Avec la Nupes, les liens se resserrent entre les trotskistes lambertistes et Jean-Luc Mélenchon". Le Monde (in French). 2022-05-27.
  5. ^ nationale, Assemblée. "M. Jérôme Legavre - Mandat clos - Seine-Saint-Denis (12e circonscription)". Assemblée nationale (in French). Retrieved 2024-06-21.