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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.
Date Congress Place: 25–30 December 1920: Congrès de Tours: Tours: 25–30 December 1921: 1st Congress: Marseille: 15–20 October 1922: 2nd Congress: Paris: 20–24 January 1924: 3rd Congress: Lyon: 17–21 January 1925: 4th Congress: Clichy: 20–26 June 1926: 5th Congress: Lille: 31 March - 7 April 1929: 6th Congress: Saint-Denis: 11–19 ...
The French Communist Party (French: ... (party leader from 1930 to 1964) ... the party claimed that it had 134,000 members of which 79,000 were up to date on their ...
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.
In 1920, the French Section of the Communist International was founded. [2] This organization went on to become the French Communist Party ( Parti communiste français , PCF ). Following World War II , the French Communist Party joined the government led by Charles de Gaulle before being dropped by the coalition.
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.
Maurice Thorez (French: [mɔʁis tɔʁɛz, moʁ-]; 28 April 1900 – 11 July 1964) was a French politician and longtime leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1930 until his death. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister of France from 1946 to 1947. [1]
The Tours Congress was the 18th National Congress of the French Section of the Workers' International, or SFIO, which took place in Tours on 25–30 December 1920. During the Congress, the majority voted to join the Third International and create the French Section of the Communist International, which became the French Communist Party in 1921.