French Communist Party

The French Communist Party is a political party founded in 1920 as a section of the Communist International. It became a major force in French labor politics and parliamentary life.

Tours Congress: The 1920 congress at which the French Section of the Workers' International split over joining the Communist International. The vote at Tours founded the party as the majority broke from the socialist organization.
French Resistance: The movements that opposed German occupation and the Vichy regime in France during World War II. Communists organized a major resistance network after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
Maurice Thorez: A French communist leader who headed the party from 1930 to 1964, apart from wartime exile. Thorez built the party into a mass organization and defined its prewar and postwar leadership.
French Communist Party presidential elections: The party's campaigns and results in elections for the presidency of France. Presidential results trace its transition from mass support to a smaller role on the left.
Communist International: An international organization of communist parties founded in Moscow in 1919 to promote world revolution. The party entered the Comintern as its French section after the Tours vote.
Popular Front (France): The 1936 electoral alliance of French left-wing parties that formed a government led by Léon Blum. The party supported the alliance and helped bring the Popular Front government to power.
Jacques Duclos: A French communist politician who led the party during Maurice Thorez's wartime absence. Duclos maintained party leadership in France during the German occupation.
French Communist Party–Socialist Party alliance: The electoral and political cooperation between France's Communist and Socialist parties, especially under the Common Programme. The alliance shows how the party sought power through cooperation with its principal left-wing rival.
French Socialist Party: A French political party founded in 1969 that became the country's principal center-left party. It became the party's main electoral competitor on the French left.
French Fourth Republic: The French republican regime that governed from 1946 to 1958. The party became a major electoral force and participated in early postwar governments.

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