Independent Workers' Party

{{Short description|French Marxist political party founded in June 2008}}

{{Expand French|Parti ouvrier indépendant|date=June 2017|topic=gov}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Independent Workers' Party

| native_name = Parti ouvrier indépendant

| logo = Logo POI complet.svg

| colorcode = {{party color|Independent Workers' Party}}

| leader = Collective leadership
(Central Committee)

| foundation = {{start date and age|15 June 2008}}

| ideology = Marxism
Proletarian internationalism
Factions:
Communism
Trotskyism
Anarcho-syndicalism

| headquarters = 87, Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, Paris

| position = Left-wing{{cite web |title=Parti Ouvrier indépendant {{!}} Election Présidentielle 2012 |url=http://www.francetv.fr/2012/partis/parti-ouvrier-independant |website=France Télévisions |date=2012-02-17 |access-date=2018-05-13 |archive-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217104615/http://www.francetv.fr/2012/partis/parti-ouvrier-independant |url-status=bot: unknown}} to far-left

| membership = 10,071{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

| national = {{Nowrap|New Popular Front (2024–present)}}
New Ecologic and Social People's Union (2022-2024)

| colours = {{Color box|#FF0000|border=darkgray}} {{Color box|#000000|border=darkgray}} Red and black

| predecessor = Workers' Party

| seats1_title = National Assembly

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|1|577|hex={{party color|Independent Workers' Party}}}}

| seats2_title = Senate

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|348|hex={{party color|Independent Workers' Party}}}}

| seats3_title = European Parliament

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|79|hex={{party color|Independent Workers' Party}}}}

| website = {{URL|partiouvrierindependant-poi.fr}}

| country = France

}}

The Independent Workers' Party ({{langx|fr|Parti ouvrier indépendant}}, POI) is a French Marxist political party founded in June 2008 after the dissolution of its predecessor, the Workers' Party. It claimed 10,071 members at its founding congress in 2008, and 8,000 members on its second congress in 2012.{{Cite news |date=2012-02-20 |title=Le manifeste de fondation du Parti Ouvrier Indépendant |trans-title=The founding manifesto of the Independent Workers' Party |url=https://parti-ouvrier-independant.fr/le-manifeste-de-fondation-du-parti-ouvrier-independant/ |access-date=2022-12-28 |website=Parti Ouvrier Indépendant |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |date=2012-03-14 |title=AFP: Après le Parti des Travailleurs, naissance du Parti ouvrier indépendant |language=fr |trans-title=AFP: After the Workers' Party, birth of the Independent Workers' Party |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h1EzchwUgNOaOCXa9_NYFrK4yyuw |access-date=2022-12-28 |archive-date=2012-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314190210/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h1EzchwUgNOaOCXa9_NYFrK4yyuw |url-status=dead}}

Amongst its four General Secretaries are former presidential candidates Gérard Schivardi and Daniel Gluckstein, who were members of a Trotskyist current within the party. Gluckstein was suspended following a leadership dispute in 2015, leading to the faction splitting and founding the Workers' Party.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-27 |title=Avec la Nupes, les liens se resserrent entre les trotskistes lambertistes et Jean-Luc Mélenchon |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/elections-legislatives-2022/article/2022/05/27/avec-la-nupes-les-liens-se-resserrent-entre-les-lambertistes-et-jean-luc-melenchon_6127828_6104324.html |website=Le Monde |lang=fr}}

Jérôme Legavre was elected the party's only Member of Parliament in the 2022 French legislative election.{{Cite web |last=nationale |first=Assemblée |title=M. Jérôme Legavre - Mandat clos - Seine-Saint-Denis (12e circonscription) |url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/deputes/PA795298 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=Assemblée nationale |language=fr}}