Pierre Lambert
Pierre Lambert (born June 9, 1920) (real name Pierre Boussel) is a French Trotskyist leader. He is the central leader of the French Courant Communiste Internationaliste (CCI) which founded the Parti des Travailleurs.
Lambert began his activity as a Trotskyist militant before the Second World War when he was a member of the Internationalist Workers Party (POI) led by Raymond Molinier. After the war he continued his activism, as a member of the now united French section of the Fourth International, the Parti Communiste Internationaliste (PCI).
In the PCI he was known as a specialist in trade union matters and rarely took a stand on international issues. When Michel Pablo, the secretary of the Fourth International, raised the question of entrism sui generis he took no stand until his field of operation in the trade unions was threatened. He then backed the PCI leadership around Bleibtreu and Favre.
However in time Lambert moved against Blieibtreu and favre and they were expelled from the small PCI. By this time, 1952, the PCI had split into two mutually hostile groups on the question of entrism sui generis and the associated perspective of hundreds of years of deformed workers states propagated by Pablo. Despite their having led the struggle against Pablo this made no difference to Lambert in expelling Bleibtreua and Favre.
Fully in control of the PCI by 1954 Lambert forged an alliance with the American Socialist Workers Party and joined with it in the International Committee of the Fourth International.