Fratricidal struggles between social democrats: The war of tendencies during the transition from the spd to the SFIO in Alsace-Lorraine (1918-1920)

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In the aftermath of the First World War, Alsatian-Lorraine socialists were torn between several tendencies that aspired to hegemony in the movement. From the ephemeral episode of the November Revolution, the aims of the various groups seemed irreconcilable, particularly with the heavy liability of each other’s behaviour during the war. The return to France ratified, the old Germans for the most part expelled from the region, the SPD of Alsace-Lorraine and the free trade unions joined the French organizations that are the SFIO and the CGT. In the immediate post-war period, the supporters of reformism and revolutionaries would then wage a tidy battle until the Congress of Tours, which would finally see the split recorded and the creation of SFIC. The split will also take place between the CGT and the CGTU at the Saint-Étienne Congress.