Daniel Gluckstein

Daniel Gluckstein (born March 3, 1953 in Paris) 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".

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.