Succeeding the SFIO created in 1905 under the leadership of Jean Jaurès, the Socialist Party took its current name in 1969. The PS defines itself as a republican, secular, feminist and humanist party
Domestic policy. Meeting of the National Council of the Socialist Party in La Villette. Commentary on factual images and interviews with François HOLLANDE, spokesman of the party, Jean-Christophe CAMBADELIS, national secretary, and Jean-Luc MELENCHON, animator of the Socialist Left.
Tensions within the Gardois PS... The day after the election of the new federal secretariat, the supporters of the Ségolène Royal line announced that they would not participate in this local PS government. Nicolas Cadène, number two of the Socialist Federation of Gard, denounces the unfairness of the new office. The discipline of assembly desired by the PS at the national level has difficulty being applied in the Gard. In a café, Nicolas CADENE says that some positions were not allocated as they should be and that the various sensitivities within the PS were not respected. However, the gathering can still take place...
On the plateau, during a debate, François MITTERRAND answers Pierre Sainderichin’s question on the reasons for choosing the emblem of the fist and the rose to symbolize the socialist party.
When asked by Henri Marque, Michel ROCARD defines his conception of socialism. He explains that socialism is a form of organization of society in which the political power and the economic power are democratized, through decentralization and collective control of the management of production.
For the first time since the end of the war, the SFIO is holding an extraordinary congress at the Palais de la Mutualité in Paris, during which the Secretary General of the SFIO Daniel MAYER and Edouard DEPREUX will speak, of the underground executive committee.
Report on Jean Christophe CAMBADÉLIS, Harlem’s successor DESIRING as first secretary of the Socialist Party. Commentary on alternating factual images, archives, photographs and interviews of Jean Christophe CAMBADELIS, first secretary of the PS and Marie Noëlle LIENEMANN, Senator PS.
Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH and Etienne MOUGEOTTE announce live the result of the second round of the 1981 presidential election: electronic portrait displaying the face of François MITTERRAND, elected President of the Republic.
Report devoted to Lionel Jospin, new first secretary of the Socialist Party. Montage of archival and factual images of the PS congress, to paint a portrait of this reserved man, esteemed by activists for his effectiveness, and respected by the party minorities for his unfailing loyalty to François Mitterrand.
François Mitterrand evokes his vision of socialism: the liberation of the forces that oppress him according to him and above all economic forces and the forms of exploitation of man by man.
Excerpt from a meeting of the section of the Socialist Party in Elbeuf dedicated to the next "Feast of Unity". Then an interview with a socialist activist on the Elbeuf market. She evokes the difficulty of reconciling her life as an activist with her role as a mother of a family, as a wage earner and with a husband who is himself a socialist activist who "...preaches in theory something that he does not put into practice...".
When asked by Pierre CHARPY, Gaston DEFFERRE gave his definition of socialism. It describes it as a political and economic doctrine that reconciles economic progress, economic democracy and political democracy. He explains that a non-socialist is a conservative.
Report on the meeting of Socialist, Social-Democratic and Labour leaders of the European Union, at the invitation of the British Prime Minister. Tony BLAIR would like to create an international movement of center-left, which does not seem possible in view of national particularisms. The factual images alternate with the interview of François HOLLANDE recalling what the socialist international must be.
The leadership of the Socialist Party is, this weekend, passed from Laurent FABIUS to the mayor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Brief retrospective of Michel ROCARD’s career within the party.
At the Congress of the Socialist Party, held from 11 to 13 June 1971 at the Léo-Lagrange gymnasium in Épinay-sur-Seine, François MITTERRAND was elected first secretary of the party. Excerpt from his speech.
The Socialist Youth Movement has opened its summer school in Villeneuve lès Avignon (Gard), in the presence of Laurent FABIUS. Comment on images of the event and the meeting, with statements by Laurent FABIUS as well as a mirror of MJS activists.
Report devoted to Martine AUBRY, the new first secretary of the Socialist Party, who took up her duties this morning at the party headquarters, rue de Solférino in Paris. He must now succeed in working with Ségolène ROYAL and his supporters after hectic weeks and an election won by only a few votes away from his rival. Reportage composed of factual images of Martine AUBRY’s arrival at the headquarters of the PS and his meeting with Ségolène ROYAL. Interviews of the two women and excerpt from a video recorded by Ségolène ROYAL on its website.
The Socialist Party is in the campaign. On the one hand, Laurent FABIUS is determined more than ever to obtain a majority at the PS congress in a month. On the other hand, François HOLLANDE, who hopes to gather his troops around a single candidate, who will have been nominated at Le Mans. Commentary on image and excerpts from the interventions of the two candidates.
Images of leaders of the French Communist Party and the Socialist Party, including Georges marchais, Roland Leroy, François Mitterrand, Pierre Mauroy and Gaston Defferre, before the meeting at which they reached agreement on a common left-wing government agenda.