French Communist Party

French Communist Party
Parti communiste français
AbbreviationPCF
National SecretaryFabien Roussel
SpokespersonsCécile Cukierman
Ian Brossat
FoundersFernand Loriot
Ludovic-Oscar Frossard
Marcel Cachin
Ho Chi Minh
Founded30 December 1920 (1920-12-30)
Split fromFrench Section of the Workers' International
HeadquartersHeadquarters of the French Communist Party,
2, place du Colonel Fabien – 75019 Paris
NewspaperL'Humanité
Student wingUnion of Communist Students
Youth wingMouvement Jeunes Communistes de France
Membership (2023)Decrease 42,237[1]
IdeologyHistorical:
Marxism–Leninism (until 1979)[9]
Political positionLeft-wing[10][11] to far-left[12]
National affiliationNew Ecologic and Social People's Union
European affiliationParty of the European Left
International affiliationIMCWP
Cominform (1947–1956)
European Parliament groupThe Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Colors  Red
Anthem"The Internationale"
National Assembly
12 / 577
Senate
17 / 348
European Parliament
0 / 74
Presidency of Regional Councils
0 / 17
Presidency of Departmental Councils
0 / 95
Website
www.pcf.fr Edit this at Wikidata

Until 2008, the party was also member of Popular Front (1936–1938), CNFL (1940–1947) and the Plural Left (1997–2002)

The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français, pronounced [paʁti kɔmynist fʁɑ̃sɛ], PCF) is a communist party in France. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit with The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL group.

Founded in 1920, it participated in three governments: the provisional government of the Liberation (1944–1947), at the beginning of François Mitterrand's presidency (1981–1984), and in the Plural Left cabinet led by Lionel Jospin (1997–2002).

It was also the largest party on the left in France in a number of national elections, from 1945 to 1960, before falling behind the Socialist Party in the 1970s. The PCF has lost further ground to the Socialists since that time.

From 2009, the PCF was a leading member of the Left Front (Front de gauche), alongside Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Left Party (PG). During the 2017 presidential election, the PCF supported Mélenchon's candidature; however, tensions between the PCF and Mélenchon's movement, La France Insoumise, have led the two movements to campaign separately for the general elections.[13] Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a strong influence in French politics, especially at the local level. In 2012, the PCF claimed to have had 138,000 members, 70,000 of whom had paid their membership fees.[14]

  1. ^ @PCF (29 January 2023). "Congrès du PCF: le texte d'orientation du Conseil national porté par @Fabien_Roussel est adopté à 81,92% à l'issue du vote des communistes" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "France". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  3. ^ "EuropeElects". Parties and Elections in Europe., citing data from Chapel Hill Expert Survey
  4. ^ Qvortrup, Matt (2022). Referendums and Ethnic Conflict (2nd ed.). University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 131. ISBN 9780812298581. Further, France is a country with a persistent Euroskeptic party with coalition potential, namely the French Communist Party.
  5. ^ "L'histoire du PCF".
  6. ^ "L'histoire du PCF". La révélation des crimes du stalinisme, en 1956, ébranle la confiance profonde dans l'URSS et crée bien des déchirures.
  7. ^ "L'histoire du PCF". Au-delà, avec la révolution informationnelle et la mondialisation, avec un capitalisme entraînant l'humanité vers l'abîme et l'empêchant de relever les défis écologiques et civilisationnels auxquels elle est confrontée, la question communiste n'a jamais été aussi brûlante, le projet révolutionnaire aussi nécessaire.
  8. ^ "L'histoire du PCF". Dès lors, les efforts du PCF pour ouvrir une perspective vont buter durablement sur ce doute : une politique de progrès libérée de la dictature des marchés financiers est-elle possible ? Pèsent les déceptions face à la gauche au pouvoir, l'évolution libérale des directions socialistes, les difficultés du mouvement social à mettre en échec la désindustrialisation et la contre-révolution libérale mondiale ainsi que l'évolution puis la chute du « socialisme réel » en Europe.
  9. ^ "Enver Hoxha: 'Eurocommunism' is Anti-Communism - pt. 1". The French revisionist leaders proposed to their 23rd Congress, held in May 1979, that they should give up referring to Marxism-Leninism in the documents of their party and use the term "scientific socialism" instead.
  10. ^ Murray, Rainbow (2008). The Power of Sex and Incumbency: A Longitudinal Study of Electoral Performance in France. SAGE. p. 551. doi:10.1177/1354068807088122. S2CID 144957277.
  11. ^ Mendras, Henri; Cole, Alistair (1991). Social Change in Modern France: Towards a Cultural Anthropology of the Fifth Republic. Cambridge University Press. p. 76. ISBN 052139998X.
  12. ^ Cosseron, Serge (ed.). Le dictionnaire de l'extrême gauche.
  13. ^ "Législatives : la tension monte d’un cran entre PCF et France insoumise", L'Humanité.
  14. ^ "Les primaires à gauche au banc d'essai" L'Express.

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