- Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal, known as, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes region, a former member of the National Assembly and a prominent member of the Socialist Party. On 16 November 2006, Socialist Party members elected her as their candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. In the first round of voting in that election, on April 22, 2007, …
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, member of the social-democrat Socialist Party (PS). A former Finance Minister under Lionel Jospin's Plural left ("gauche plurielle") government, he belongs to the center-left wing of the PS and is deputy of the 8th circonscription of the Val d'Oise. DSK is Professor at the Paris Institute for Political Studies ("Sciences Po") and the HEC School of Management.
- Joe Higgins
Joe Higgins is an Irish Socialist Party politician. He was the sole Socialist Party Teachta Dála (TD) from 1997–2007; he represented the Dublin West constituency.
- François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand served as President of France and co-prince of Andorra from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist president of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of government since 1957. He was re-elected in 1988 and held office until 1995, before dying of prostate cancer the following year.
- Salvador Allende
Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (July 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death, reportedly by suicide, during the coup d'état of September 11, 1973. Allende's career in Chilean government spanned nearly forty years. As a Socialist Party and Marxist politician, he became a senator, deputy, cabinet minister and after failing in the 1952, 1958, …
- François Bayrou
François Bayrou is a French politician, president of Union for French Democracy since 1998, and a candidate in the 2007 French presidential election. In the first round, he received 18.5% of votes, finishing in 3rd place and therefore was eliminated from the race. (Only the top two candidates participated in the runoff election, which was held on May 6). A former Member of the European Parliament, …
- Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers (January 26, 1850-December 13, 1924) was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position as president of the organization for all but one year from 1886 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL. Focused on higher wages and job security, he fought against both socialism and the Socialist Party.
- Jan Marijnissen
Johannes Guillaume Christianus Andreas Marijnissen (Oss, 8 october 1952, usually known as Jan Marijnissen) is a Dutch politician for the Socialist Party. Marijnissen has been the chairman and leader in the parliament for the SP since 1989 onwards. Marijnissen is said to appeal to the 'common man', because of his use of simple language. His appeal is also explained by some observers by his capacity of presenting himself as a valid, …
- Abdoulaye Wade
Abdoulaye Wade (born May 29, 1926) is the third and current President of Senegal, in office since 2000. He is also the Secretary-General of the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and has led the party since it was founded in 1974. He ran for president four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000.
- Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the "Revenu minimum d'insertion" (RMI), a social minimum welfare program for indigents. He is currently a member of the European Parliament.
- José Sócrates
José Sócrates de Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH (pron. IPA ; born in Porto (officially in Vilar de Maçada), 6 September 1957) is a Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Socialist Party and the current prime minister of Portugal, since March 12 2005.
- Pierre Moscovici
Pierre Moscovici (born September 16, 1957) is a French politician, a member of the Departmental Council of Doubs and a Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. He is a member of the French Socialist Party (PS); part of the Party of European Socialists. He has been National Secretary of his party since 1995.
- Jacques Delors
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born July 20 1925 in Paris) is a French economist and politician, the only person to have served two terms as President of the European Commission (between 1985 and 1995). In the 1940s-1960s, Delors held a series of posts in French banking and state planning. Member of the French Confederation of Christian Workers, he participated in its secularization and the foundation of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour.In 1969, …
- Dave Nellist
David Nellist (born July 1952) is a Trotskyist political figure and former Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for the former constituency of Coventry South East. He is a member of the Socialist Party of England and Wales and a sitting councillor in Coventry as well as an active member of the Amicus trade union. A long-standing Marxist and at that time supporter of the Militant Tendency, Nellist was an MP in Coventry from 1983 to 1992, …
- Arnaud Montebourg
Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician, and a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He used to be one of the founding members of the political current known as the Nouveau Parti Socialist (New Socialist Party). He left this current to create a new movement within the socialist party called "Rénover, Maintenant" ("Renewal Now"), and continues to call for significant constitutional change in France, leading to the founding of a Sixth Republic.
- Jean-Marc Ayrault
Jean-Marc Ayrault is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. He is currently Mayor of Nantes and President of the Socialist Party group in the French National Assembly.
- Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. He served as President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and then as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He also led Serbia's Socialist Party from its foundation in 1990. He is from the Vasojevići Montenegrin clan. He was one of the key figures in the Yugoslav wars during the 1990s and Kosovo War in 1999. He was indicted in May 1999, during the Kosovo War, …
- Hal Draper
Hal Draper (1914-1990) was a Third Camp American socialist activist, Marxist and author, perhaps best known for his role in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. His brother, Theodore Draper, is best known for his studies of the Communist Party of the United States of America and himself an activist in the socialist movement. __FORCETOC_
- Rexhep Meidani
Rexhep Qemal Meidani is an Albanian politician. He graduated from the University of Tirana (1966), Faculty of Natural Sciences, Branch Physics, as well as successfully accomplished the postgraduate studies in the University of Caen (France) (1974). With regard to the professional area, Mr. Meidani worked as professor, chair of the department and later as the dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (1966 - 1996). During this time span, Mr.
- Henri Emmanuelli
Henri Emmanuelli (born on May 31, 1945) is a French politician. Member of the Socialist Party ("Parti socialiste" or PS), he is deputy for Landes from 1978 to 1981, from 1986 to 1997 and since 2000. He was nominated Secretary of State to Overseas in 1981, to Budget in 1983, to Consumption between 1984 and 1986. He was chairman of the National Assembly from 1992 to 1993 after Laurent Fabius stepped down, following his nomination as leader of the socialist party.
- Jean-Pierre Chevènement
Jean-Pierre Chevènement is a French politician. The Chevènement family is of Swiss origin, their original name - Schwennemann - having become gallicized to Chevènement by the 18th century. Chevènement's political positions may be described as left-wing and somewhat nationalist, which he describes as "republican". He is a eurosceptic. He is mayor of Belfort since 1983 and he was deputy from 1973 to 2002.
- Harry van Bommel
Harry van Bommel (born 24 June 1962 in Helmond) is a Dutch politician for the Socialist Party Harry van Bommel was born on 24 June 1962 in Helmond. After completing his secondary education in Zwolle, he did his military service before returning to Zwolle to train as a teacher. He then studied political science at the University of Amsterdam, completing his course in 1994, going on to teach Dutch and English at a technical school.
- Pierre Mauroy
Pierre Mauroy is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984. A teacher, he led the Socialist Young Movement and the Technique Teaching Union in the 1950s. He became a leading figure in the Socialist federation of Nord "département", which was among the third biggest of the SFIO party and climbed quickly in the party. In 1966, he became number 2 of the party behind the secretary general Guy Mollet.
- Clare Daly
Clare Daly is an Irish socialist politician and trade union activist. She is a Socialist Party councillor for Swords. Clare Daly was born in Kildare and educated in NIHE, Ballymun (the forerunner of Dublin City University). She was twice elected president of the Students' Union and was prominent in the students' movement campaign for abortion rights and information. Clare Daly was elected to Labour's Administrative Committee as a youth representative.
- Nick Wrack
Nick Wrack was the registered leader of the Respect coalition, a British political party. He is a qualified barrister, and was formerly the chair of the now defunct Socialist Alliance. He was formerly a long time member of the Militant Tendency, a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, often accused of entryist tactics. Wrack spent some time working for the group's eponymous newspaper as a journalist.
- Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset was a political sociologist from the USA. Seymour Lipset was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. Lipset received a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University in 1949. Before that he taught at the University of Toronto.
- Patrick Bloche
Patrick Bloche (born July 4, 1956 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French politician from the Socialist Party.
- Benoît Hamon
Benoît Hamon is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. He is national secretary for Europe in the French socialist party.
- Stéphane Le Foll
Stéphane Le Foll is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the West of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
- Matt Wrack
Matt Wrack is a British firefighter and trade unionist. He was elected General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union in May 2005. Born in Manchester, Wrack joined the London Fire Brigade in 1983. Wrack ousted incumbent general secretary Andy Gilchrist on 5 May 2005 after Gilchrist had served just one five-year term, following widespread discontent over the settlement reached by Gilchrist with the government that ended the 2002-03 pay dispute.
- Laurette Onkelinx
Laurette Onkelinx (born October 2 1958) is a Belgian politician from the Socialist Party. She is the current Minister of Justice and Vice-Prime Minister in the Belgian federal government.
- Manuel Alegre
Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte, <small>GCL</small> (born Águeda, 12 May 1936) is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Socialist Party, and an independent candidate to the Portuguese presidential election, 2006. While studying law at the University of Coimbra, Alegre became opposed to António de Oliveira Salazar's dictatorial government. He was conscripted, and sent to the Azores and later to Angola, …
- António Guterres
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, GCC is a Portuguese politician, a former prime minister and president of the Socialist International. Currently he is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. António Guterres was born and raised in Portugal's capital, Lisbon. As a young child he already showed the abilities which would later garner him the award for Best High School Student for the year of 1965.
- Vincent Peillon
Vincent Benoît Camille Peillon is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
- Pierre Frank
Pierre Frank was a French Trotskyist leader. He served on the secretariat of the Fourth International from 1948 to 1979. Educated as a chemical engineer, Frank was one of the first French Trotskyists, working with surrealist Pierre Naville and the syndicalist Alfred Rosmer. In 1930, he joined Trotsky on the island of Prinkipo to work as a member of the secretariat that prepared the first conference of the International Left Opposition.
- Alain Rousset
Alain Rousset is the Socialist president of the Aquitaine region of France. He was elected in 1998 and then reelected in 2004.
- Abdoulaye Bathily
Abdoulaye Bathily is a Senegalese politician and the secretary general of the Democratic League/Movement for the Labour Party. Bathily ran for president for the first time in February 1993, taking fourth place with 2.41% of the vote. From 1993 to 1998, Bathily served as Minister for the Environment and the Protection of Nature during the presidency of Abdou Diouf. Following the victory of Abdoulaye Wade in the 2000 presidential election, …
- Ferro Rodrigues
Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues is a Portuguese politician and economist. He was Minister for Social Security, and later for Public Works in the governments of António Guterres. Shortly afterwards, in 2002, he was elected Secretary-General of the Portuguese Socialist Party, a position he retained for two years in spite of the multiple scandals that surrounded the party during that time.
- Harlem Désir
Harlem Désir is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Harlem Désir is member of the Capital Tax, Fiscal Systems and Globalisation Intergroup of the European Parliament, to whom was presented Denis Robert and Ernest Backes's book, "Revelation$", in March 2001
- Rose Pastor Stokes
Rose Pastor Stokes (1879 - 1933) was a Socialist Party leader and feminist. Born in Russia, she emigrated to the United States and became active in labor politics and women's issues. Scandalizing "polite" society, she married millionaire James Graham Phelps Stokes, a personal friend of President Woodrow Wilson. Stokes was born in the tiny Jewish settlement of Augustava Suvolk on July 18, 1879. She was the daughter of Jacob and Anna Wieslander.