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22 unusual facts about French Communist Party


Bernard Kouchner

Kouchner was born in Avignon, to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, he began his political career as a member of the French Communist Party (PCF), from which he was expelled in 1966 for attempting to overthrow the leadership.

Bernard Thibault

In 1987, he joined the French Communist Party and, shortly thereafter, the CGT federal office for rail workers.

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

The film also contains many praising references to revolutionaries who thought and fought for the realisation of a post-capitalist world, including Marx, Bakunin, and Wilhelm Reich, as well as scathing criticism towards the French Communist Party, trade unionism and Maoism.

Claude Estier

Torn between joining the Communist Party (PCF) and a simple way of companionship, he took his sensitivity and communistic neutralist when he joined the original core of Nouvel Observateur.

Communisme

He explained that "the collapse of the team began when a renewed police-related history appeared of the PCF which was a "scoop".

Daniel Delaveau

In September 2007, he was designated by his party to lead the left-wing list (Socialist Party, PCF, PRG, UDB) in the March 2008 Rennes municipal election.

Francis Wurtz

Elected in the Île-de-France constituency on the French Communist Party (PCF) ticket, he sits with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group, and is its current President.

Franz Stock

He then met with more than 2,000 prisoners, among whom the French Navy officer Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, the Communist Gabriel Péri and the Gaullist Edmond Michelet.

French Popular Party

The party was formed on 28 June 1936, by Doriot and a number of fellow former members of the French Communist Party (including Henri Barbé and Paul Marion) who had moved towards nationalism in opposition to the Popular Front.

Georges Auric

While Auric criticized Satie in the 1920s for joining the French Communist Party, he became associated with several leftist groups and contributed to the communist newspapers Marianne and Paris-Soir in the 1930s.

Gilbert Renault

Convinced that it was necessary to mobilize all forces against the occupation, he put the French Communist Party in touch with the exiled government of Free France in January 1943.

Les Chansons d'Aragon

This album had much more impact than Ferré's first Baudelaire effort, maybe because when it was published Aragon was an active poet and a controversial committed communist figure in the French intellectual field.

National Popular Rally

Henri Barbé (former member of the French Communist Party's political bureau, excluded in 1934 and general secretary of the PPF from 1936 to 1939).

Ouadi Doum air raid

Political reactions in France were all supportive of the government, with the exception of those of the French Communist Party.

Patrick Le Hyaric

Le Hyaric is a member of the executive of the French Communist Party and also the federal secretary of the Communist federation in the Morbihan.

Pierre Chany

From there Chany moved to Sport and to Ce Soir, publications associated with the Communist Party but which employed journalists of various opinions.

Robert Guédiguian

He early became concerned with political questions and for a while was involved with the French Communist Party.

Samir Amin

Arriving in Paris, Amin joined the French Communist Party (PCF), but he later distanced himself from Soviet Marxism and associated himself for some time with Maoist circles.

Scotch on the Rocks

Having belatedly discovered the link between Mackie and Sukey Dunmayne, MI5 send Hart to France to investigate possible links between Sukey and French Communist Party leader Serge Bucholz.

Serge Mesonès

After he retired from playing football, Mesonès became a sports journalist and a member of the French Communist Party.

Torez

The city was renamed from Chystyakove to Torez in honor of the French Communist Party leader Maurice Thorez, in 1964, the year of his death.

Twenty-one Conditions

During the December 1920 Tours Congress of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the 21 conditions were rejected although the majority, led by Fernand Loriot, Boris Souvarine, Marcel Cachin, and Ludovic Frossard, adhered to the Third International, creating the French Section of the Communist International (SFIC), which would later take the name of the French Communist Party (PCF).


Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism became a force across Europe in 1977, when Enrico Berlinguer of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), Santiago Carrillo of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and Georges Marchais of the French Communist Party (PCF) met in Madrid and laid out the fundamental lines of the "new way".

Faisceau

It worked hard to recruit people from the left, with some success: notably, Marcel Delagrange, former French Communist Party (PCF) mayor of Périgueux, and the anarcho-syndicalist (and future Vichy Régime minister) Hubert Lagardelle.

Jean-Louis Léonard

In the 1988 cantonal elections, he was elected as a general councillor of Aytré succeeding Léon Belly (PCF).

Maurice Clavel

That did not prevent him from being a fervent activist in the Rally of the French People (RPF) whose acerbic criticism of communism got him to be accused by the French Communist Party (PCF) of being "Goebbel's voice".

Roger Roche

In 1925 he, along with two other persons, founded a cell of the French Communist Party in Rufisque.

Sail Mohamed

He was a passionate anti-Stalinist, rejecting support from the Red Aid, a front organisation of the French Communist Party, when he was prosecuted by the French authorities for an anti-militarist article.

Union for French Democracy

During the 1978 legislative electoral campaign, in his Verdun-sur-le-Doubs speech, President Giscard d'Estaing noted that the political leanings of the French people were divided among four groups: the Communists (PCF), the Socialists (PS), the Neo-Gaullists (RPR) and his own followers.