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- The 1920s saw a number of splits within the party over relations with other left-wing parties and over adherence to Comintern 's dictates. The party entered the French parliament, but also promoted strike action and opposed colonialism, a position that was isolated in the French political landscape at the time.
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The French Communist Party (French: Parti Communiste Français; abbreviated PCF) has been a part of the political scene in France since 1920, peaking in strength around the end of World War II. It originated when a majority of members resigned from the socialist French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) party to set up the French ...
The PCF was founded in 1920 by Marxist–Leninist members of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) who supported the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Russian Revolution. It became a member of the Communist International, and followed a Stalinist line under the leadership of Maurice Thorez.
May 19, 2023 · Between 25-30 December 1920 the SFIO held its national congress at Tours where the party split in two. 3 out of 4 voting members chose to align themselves with the Third International, a communist organization overseen by Vladimir Lenin.
- From Socialism to Stalinism
- Affiliation to The Ci
- Parti Communiste
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- Lenin’s Death
- Working Class Party
- Class Against Class
- February 1934
- Popular Front
- Spanish Civil War
In the English translation of Eric Hazan’s magnificent Invention of Paristhere are apostrophes around ‘Communist’ when writing about the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français – PCF). The Party has meant ‘Communism’ for most of the 20th century. For the full 70 years from its Caesarean birth in 1920 to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Uni...
The Russian Revolution inspired and reinvigorated many. There was a widespread belief that it proved a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism in France was still a possibility. Socialist activists also felt betrayed by the Second International’s abject failure in stopping World War 1 in 1914. They leapt at the idea of joining the Communist Internati...
Initially the new Section française de l’Internationale communiste (SFIC), formally called the Parti communiste (PC) from 1921, claimed 109,000 members, but its first major membership decline set in within months. Over the next hundred years it has had a roller-coaster existence, experiencing three other periods of major decline as well three of hu...
The 1920s saw a steady drift of members out of the PC. Some left politics altogether. Others went back to the SFIO or into the embryonic left and Trotskyist oppositions, continuing to claim the title ‘communist’. Some quit the PC because its growing emphasis on internal centralised military-like discipline challenged their belief in a democratic pa...
The death of Lenin on 21 January 1924 had a significant and rapid impact on the PC. Pierre Monatte (1881-1960) was the leading revolutionary syndicalist in the aftermath of World War 1. He joined the PCF in May 1923 when he started to work as labour editor on l’Humanité and became a member of its national steering committee. He was soon in a minori...
The narrowing down of the PC to those who supported Stalin created a much more homogenous political party than those who’d been in the majority of the SFIO at Tours in 1920. No longer a broad umbrella group it became a party aligned ever more closely with Stalin’s victorious side in the internal faction fights within the Russian Communist Party. Pr...
While its membership continued to fall, the PC implemented Moscow’s sectarian ‘Class against Class’ united front position on a 23 to 13 majority vote at its Central Committee In January 1928. This attempted to split the leadership of the Socialist Party from its manual worker supporters. ‘It is necessary to speed up bringing together the working ma...
The PC’s own real growth took off only in 1934. The extreme right riot of February 6 1934 that appeared to try to storm the National Assembly shocked France. The PC responded first, calling an evening demonstration on Thursday 9 February. The few thousand demonstrators were brutally attacked by the police, killing four, wounding hundreds and arrest...
In January 1936 the PC’s slogan of ‘For Bread, Peace and Freedom’ was adopted by the Popular Front between the PC, the SFIO and the Radical Party. In the April-May 1936 elections in which the Socialists, Radicals and Communists did not challenge each other in the second round, the number of PC deputies rose from 10 to 72. Nearly two-thirds of these...
From August 1936 the PCF was the conduit for nearly all the Soviet support to the Spanish Republic that passed through France with the informal assistance of the Blum government. On October 16 1936 Stalin declared that freeing Spain from the fascists was not a Spanish duty alone. The International Brigades were set up the next week. Over the follow...
French Communist Party, French political party that espouses a communist ideology and has joined coalition governments with the French Socialist Party. Founded in 1920 by the left wing of the French Socialist Party and affiliated with the Soviet-run Communist International, the PCF did not gain.
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In December 1920 these tensions finally resulted in a split within the Socialist Party between the minority (SFIO), which rejected the twenty-one conditions of the Third International, and the majority (SFIC), which later became the French Communist Party (PCF), which accepted them.
May 23, 2023 · Through this book, it can be perceived how and why the leadership of the FCP went from decentralization to centralization and back to decentralization, as well as how a local fringe party gradually rose to the international stage, gaining public recognition and mastering military power.
