UDSR
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Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance
Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance |
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| President | René Pleven |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Dissolved | 1964 |
| Merged into | Convention of Republican Institutions |
| Ideology | Vague |
| Political position | Centre or centre-right |
| National affiliation |
Rally of Republican Lefts (1946-1955) Republican Front (1956-1958) |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
The Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (French: Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance or UDSR) was a French political party founded after the liberation of France from German occupation and mainly active during the Fourth Republic (1947–58). It was a loosely organised "cadre party" without mass membership. Its ideology was vague, including a broad diversity of different political convictions with descriptions ranging from left-wing via centrist to conservative. It was decidedly anti-communist and linked with the Paix et Liberté ("Peace and Liberty") movement. The UDSR was a founding member of the Liberal International in 1947.
It was founded in 1945 by the non-Communist majority of the resistance network, Movement of National Liberation. The project was to create a French labour party with all the former non-Communist Resistance. However, this plan failed because of the rebirth of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and the emergence of the new Christian-Democratic party Popular Republican Movement (MRP) and then of the Gaullist party, Rally of the French People (RPF). Henceforth, the UDSR associated itself with the Radical Party, who had been in government during most of the Third Republic, in the Rally of the Republican Lefts (Rassemblement des gauches républicaines or RGR), which presented itself as an alternative to the tripartisme alliance between the SFIO, the MRP and the French Communist Party (PCF). Its name is a typical example of French sinistrisme, where politicians tended to reject right-wing terms, preferring to label themselves as left-wing.
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