Socialist Equality Party (France)

The Socialist Equality Party (France) (Parti de l'égalité socialiste, PES) is the French section of the Trotskyite of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

In November 2016 a long-standing sympathizing group of the International Committee of the Fourth International held a founding congress to establish themselves as a full section of the ICFI. As part of the congress international delegates of the ICFI ratified their membership as the Socialist Equality Party (France), or Parti de l'égalité socialiste (PES) in French.^[1]

PES includes a number of members of Sri Lankan origin who sought asylum in France due to the effects of the Sri Lankan Civil War, some of whom were members of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) or its predecessor organization, the Revolutionary Communist League, at the time of their flight while many were won to Trotskyism during their exile.^[2] These Sri Lankan PES members played a leading role in making a historic translation of Trotsky’s seminal work, The Revolution Betrayed, into Tamil in 2024.^[3]

References

1. "The International Committee of the Fourth International founds its French section". 15 November 2016.
2. "Third National Congress of the SEP (Sri Lanka): Greetings from the French and German sections of the world Trotskyist movement". 20 June 2022.
3. "SEP (Sri Lanka) public meetings to launch Tamil translation of Trotsky's the Revolution Betrayed". 6 February 2024.