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The French Communist Party was founded in December 1920 by a split in the socialist French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), led by the majority of party members who supported membership in the Communist International (or "Comintern") founded in 1919 by Lenin after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
The Communist League (Ligue communiste) was a French Trotskyite party established in 1930, which published the journal La Vérité.It brought together French members of the International Left Opposition before the proclamation of the Fourth International in 1938.
The French Communist Party and the Algerian War. (1991) Kemp, Tom. Stalinism in France: The first twenty years of the French Communist Party. London: New Park, 1984. Raymond, Gino G. The French Communist Party during the Fifth Republic: A Crisis of Leadership and Ideology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Sacker, Richard. A Radiant Future.
France and the Nazi Threat: The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932–1939 (2004); Translation of his highly influential La décadence, 1932–1939 (1979) Hansen, Arlen J. Expatriate Paris: A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s (1920) Irvine, William D. French Conservatism in Crisis: The Republican Federation of France in the 1930s ...
Following World War II, the French Communist Party joined the government led by Charles de Gaulle before being dropped by the coalition. [citation needed] From November 1946 to 1956, the French Communist Party won more votes than any other party in the French national elections. [citation needed] After 1956, their share of the vote gradually ...
The French Radical Party in the 1930s (1964) Marcus, John T. French Socialism in the Crisis Years, 1933–1936: Fascism and the French Left (1958) online Archived 10 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine; Mitzman, Arthur. "The French Working Class and the Blum Government (1936–37)." International Review of Social History 9#3 (1964) pp: 363–390.
The SFIC, predecessor of the Communist Party, more than tripled its seats total from 11 SFIC and 9 Union Ouvrière deputies in 1932 to 72 in 1936. The party made gains in industrialized suburbs and working-class areas of major cities.
A major effort to support communist party activity in Western democracies, especially the Italian Communist Party and the French Communist Party, fell short of gaining positions in the government. The Late Cold War (1960–1970s) in which China turned against the Soviet Union and organized alternative communist parties in many countries.