Daniel Gluckstein

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Daniel Gluckstein (born March 3, 1953) is a French Trotskyist politician from the Parti des Travailleurs (PT). He is married, with three children, and is a former professor of history in a professional college.

Like many Trotskyist leaders, he has a pseudonym, "Seldjouk".

[edit] Course of career

  • 1968, he joins the Revolutionary Communist Youth (JCR).
  • 1979, he creates Communist League Internationalist (LCI).
  • 1991, he is named National Secretary of the Parti des Travailleurs.
  • 1997, he is candidate for the legislative elections in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
  • 1994, named chief candidate to the European elections, he obtains only 0.43 % of the vote.
  • April 2002, he is a candidate for the presidential election, but gains only 0.47% of the vote, which makes of him the last of sixteen candidates in the first round.