The SFIO divided itself in three camps during the Congress. The larger one gathered those who had accepted the Third International's 21 Conditions behind Fernand Loriot, Boris Souvarine, Ludovic Frossard, and Marcel Cachin. They didn't, however, accept all of Lenin's conditions, and no vote on the matter took place. This left-wing faction, formed by the younger leaders of the party and most of the SFIO's members, obtained three quarters of the votes and split away to form the SFIC (Section Française de l'Internationale Communiste). They took with themselves the party paper L'Humanité, founded by Jean Jaurès in 1904, with them, which remained tied to the party until the 1990s.
The second faction was led by a minority who accepted the adhesion to the Third International, but only under specific conditions. They finally allied themselves to the third faction, led by Léon Blum and most of the elected socialists (including Paul Faure and Jean Longuet), who completely refused Lenin's conditions and preferred staying inside of the Second International. Blum, who would become Prime minister during the 1936-1938 Popular Front, famously declared: "Someone has to stay and keep the old house."
Hence the SFIO split in two: the SFIC (3,208 voices) and the SFIO (1,022 voices). The next year, the CGT trade-union also split, with the creation of the Communist CGTU (Confédération Générale du Travail Unifiée), which itself fusionned again with the CGT at the 1936 Toulouse Congress during the Popular Front.
A young Ho Chi Minh, then known as Nguyen Ai Quoc, was present at the congress and made a speech decrying the exploitation of the French colonies, and supporting the proposal to join the Third International.
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The SFIO divided itself in three camps during the Congress. The larger one gathered those who had accepted the Third International's 21 Conditions behind Fernand Loriot, Boris Souvarine, Ludovic Frossard, and Marcel Cachin. They didn't, however, accept all of Lenin's conditions, and no vote on the matter took place. This left-wing faction, formed by the younger leaders of the party and most of the SFIO's members, obtained three quarters of the votes and split away to form the SFIC (Section Française de l'Internationale Communiste). They took with themselves the party paper L'Humanité, founded by Jean Jaurès in 1904, with them, which remained tied to the party until the 1990s.
The second faction was led by a minority who accepted the adhesion to the Third International, but only under specific conditions. They finally allied themselves to the third faction, led by Léon Blum and most of the elected socialists (including Paul Faure and Jean Longuet), who completely refused Lenin's conditions and preferred staying inside of the Second International. Blum, who would become Prime minister during the 1936-1938 Popular Front, famously declared: "Someone has to stay and keep the old house."
Hence the SFIO split in two: the SFIC (3,208 voices) and the SFIO (1,022 voices). The next year, the CGT trade-union also split, with the creation of the Communist CGTU (Confédération Générale du Travail Unifiée), which itself fusionned again with the CGT at the 1936 Toulouse Congress during the Popular Front.
A young Ho Chi Minh, then known as Nguyen Ai Quoc, was present at the congress and made a speech decrying the exploitation of the French colonies, and supporting the proposal to join the Third International.
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