French Communist Party

The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is France's largest communist party and a member of the European Left group.

Foundation

The PCF was founded in 1920 by those in the French Socialist Party (SFIO) who supported the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and opposed the First World War. Tensions within the Socialist Party had emerged in 1914 with the start of the First World War, which saw the majority of the SFIO take what left-wing socialists called a "social-chauvinist" line in support of the French war effort. At the SFIO congress in Tours in 1920, the left-wing faction split away and formed the PCF, taking the party paper L'Humanite with them. The PCF affiliated itself to the Communist International (Comintern).

Related Topics:
1920 - French Socialist Party - Bolshevik Revolution - Russia - First World War - 1914 - Social-chauvinist - Tours - L'Humanite - Communist International

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