By Gino G. Raymond
The dying of the French Communist get together (PCF) has been a recurrent characteristic of overviews of the Left in France for the previous twenty years, and but the Communists continue to exist. This research examines the criteria that undermined the location of the PCF because the most appropriate occasion of France, but in addition highlights the demanding situations that the occasion faces in a society dissatisfied with politics, and the hot techniques that it really is constructing that allows you to revive its fortunes.
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Thus, as party politics assumed the new pattern of left- and right-wing allegiances described as a ‘quadrille bipolaire’, the party found itself pooling its resources, if not its ambitions, with its sister party of the Left, the Parti socialiste. And the ambiguity this created in terms of the authenticity of the PCF’s desire to share power in the management of the Fifth Republic’s affairs became more evident in the stop–go, in–out posture of the Communists, as the confident electorate of a successfully established republic edged closer to voting the Left into power.
19 It was also connected, however, with events occurring internationally and the adversarial positions that were becoming fixed. The doctrine articulated by President Truman of the United States on 12 March predicated on the belief that the independence of the countries of post-war Europe (most immediately Turkey and Greece but also France and Italy) was dependent on the provision of aid and the tacit understanding that they would purge themselves of communist influence, formed part of the backdrop to the conference in Moscow of the former allied nations later in the month.
When incipient rebellion followed in Madagascar and resulted in the arrest of Malagasy parliamentarians, Communist Deputies protested that the arrests were in contravention of the constitution of the Fourth Republic. But what triggered the break with government was the strike that was called at the Renault auto works at Boulogne-Billancourt on 25 April, against the original advice of the CGT. The situation had been simmering since February and by the end of April it was clear to the CGT and the PCF that the workers would not be placated.
