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| | The '''Pole of Communist Revival in France''' ('''PRCF'''), is a [[Communism|communist]] party in [[French Republic|France]]. |
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| The "'''Pole of Communist Revival in France"''' (''Pôle de renaissance communiste en France'' in French'','' PRCF), is a [[French Republic|French]] [[Communism|communist]] political movement. The PRCF was founded in 2004 by former militants of the [[French Communist Party]] (''Parti communiste français'' in French, PCF), disgruntled by the party's turn towards [[Reform|reformism]] and [[revisionism]]. | |
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| The PRCF declares its main objective as being the reconstitution of a "'''truly''' communist party"<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=UNIR LES COMMUNISTES POUR RECONSTITUER LE PARTI FRANCHEMENT COMMUNISTE DONT LA FRANCE POPULAIRE A BESOIN|date=2023-12-17|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/prcf/unir-les-communistes-pour-reconstituer-le-parti-franchement-communiste-dont-la-france-populaire-a-besoin/|retrieved=2024-06-24|quote="A l’heure où les crises cumulées de l'”ordre” capitaliste en France, en Europe et dans le monde, précipitent les travailleurs et la Nation dans un maëlstrom de régressions sociales, de négationnisme anticommuniste, de fascisation politique, d’euro-dissolution galopante de la France (imminence du “saut fédéral européen” menant aux Etats-Unis d’Europe sous gouvernance germano-américaine) et de marche décomplexée au “conflit global de haute intensité” planifié par Washington, le besoin vital de reconstituer un parti communiste de combat se fait sentir comme jamais. Un parti franchement communiste, c’est-à-dire surtout pas un ersatz de P”C”F-PGE démarxisé, décommunisé, euro-formaté, Macron-compatible, atlantico-complaisant et socialo-dépendant comme l’est irréversiblement devenue, hélas, l’organisation dénaturée (dite “PCF”) de Fabien Roussel."}}</ref> in France under [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] lines. Its youth wing is the "Youth for Communist Revival in France" (''Jeunes pour la renaissance communiste en France'' in French, JRCF). It publishes a monthly magazine called "Communist Intiative" (''Initative communiste'' in French, IC) and a tri-monthly review containing historical analyses and delineations of Marxist theory called "ÉtincelleS" (French for "spark").
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| The current President of the PRCF is [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Landini Léon Landini], former resistance fighter with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP-MOI Francs-tireurs et partisans – main-d'œuvre immigrée (FTP-MOI)] during the [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Nazi]] occupation of France and one of the founders of the PRCF alongside philosopher Georges Gastaud and long time deputy of the French National Assembly [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Hage Georges Hage]. The current National Secretary of the PRCF is Fadi Kassem, who succeeded Georges Gastaud in 2021. Gastaud had fulfilled the role since the founding of the organization in 2004. Notable members of the PRCF include French-Algerian author and journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Alleg Henri Alleg], known for his autobiographical work ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Question La Question],'' in which he describes the use of torture by French troops during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War Algerian War of Independence], and author Aymeric Monville.
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| == History ==
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| ==== Gradual turn of the French Communist Party towards revisonism ====
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| The history of the PRCF is inextricably connected with the gradual transition of the PCF from Marxism-Leninism towards reformism and revisionism, a trend seen in other communist parties in Europe.
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| During the XXII Congress in 1976, the PCF under the leadership of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Marchais Georges Marchais] officially abandons the [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] notion of the [[dictatorship of the proletariat]]. Torn between upholding the [[Actually Existing Socialism|actually existing socialism]] of the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] and a partial participation in [[bourgeois democracy]], the PCF begins to align itself with the [[Eurocommunism|Eurocommunist]] positions of other European communist parties such as the [[Communist Party of Spain]] under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Carrillo Santiago Carrillo] and the [[Italian Communist Party]] under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Berlinguer Enrico Berlinguer].
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| In 1981, the PCF is invited by the social-democratic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(France) Socialist Party] (''Parti socialiste'' in French, PS) to participate in the second cabinet of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Mauroy Pierre Mauroy] under the presidency of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand François Mitterand]. The invitation is accepted by the PCF leadership who manages to include several exponents in various ministeries. Following the collapse of Mauroy's second cabinet, the PCF is again invited as a partner in Mauroy's third cabinet, maintaining the same posts as the preceding government.
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| In 1984, Marchais decides to withdraw the party from Mitterand's government, a move who produced a significant dissent among some members of the party leadership. The reasons for the party's withdrawal is Mitterand's abandonment of his original electoral program, the PCF's poor results at the European elections (garnering only 11.2%, down from 20.5 in 1979), and the party's overall decline in domestic support.
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| In 1991, following the undemocratic and illegal [[overthrow of the Soviet Union]], Marchais refuses to change the PCF's name unlike several other European communist parties.
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| Despite upholding [[democratic centralism]] as the organizational model of the PCF, the transition from [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxism-Leninism]] to a revisionist form of socialism (de facto [[social democracy]]) becomes evident under the leadership of Marchais's successor. In 1994, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hue Robert Hue] succeeds Marchais as the party's leader. In a context of a rapid decrease in domestic support following the overthrow of actually existing socialism in Eastern Europe, the leadership of the PCF continues the party's shift to the right towards social democratic positions.
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| ==== Marxist-Leninist dissent within the French Communist Party ====
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| During the XXIX Congress in 1996, seeing the PCF's gradual mutation into a revisionist party, several members including Georges Gastaud, Henri Alleg, Jean-Jacques Karman, and Rémy Auchedé announce the creation of a document protesting the party's ideological transformations. The document stated the group's opposition against the party's association in Jospin's government, its cooperation with the PS, as well as its refusal to condemn the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty Maastricht Treaty] in 1992, which strongly solidified the [[European Union]] as a bourgeois, imperialist, and undemocratic institution. The PCF's newspaper [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Humanit%C3%A9 L'Humanité], however, refuses to publish it.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Le Monde|title=Un « contre-texte » au congrès|date=1996-10-18|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1996/10/18/un-contre-texte-au-congres_3753392_1819218.html|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| Seeing participation in [[Bourgeois democracy|bourgeois governments]] as the only real solution to the decline, Hue declared his support for a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_Left Plural Left] government and in 1997, enters the coalition headed by social-democrat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Jospin Lionel Jospin].
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| In 1998, Georges Gastaud announced the creation of "Communist Coordination" (''Coordination communiste'' in French), a Marxist-Leninist organization composed of PCF members strongly critical of its revisionist leadership.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Pascal Virot|newspaper=Libération|title=Georges Gastaud, l'un des dirigeants de la coordination orthodoxe opposée à Hue. «Le PCF est en danger d'émasculation».|date=1998-06-04|url=https://www.liberation.fr/france/1998/06/04/georges-gastaud-l-un-des-dirigeants-de-la-coordination-orthodoxe-opposee-a-hue-le-pcf-est-en-danger-_240461/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| In 2002, the Marxist-Leninist dissent within the PCF culminated in the creation of the "National Federation of Associations for Communist Revival" (''Fédération nationale des associations pour la renaissance communiste'' in French, FNANC) by Gastaud and Hage. The FNANC also calls for an extraordinary congress to stop the revisionist turn of the PCF.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=L'Humanité|title=Pour un congrès extraordinaire de sortie de la mutation réformiste|date=2002-06-18|url=https://www.humanite.fr/-/-/pour-un-congres-extraordinaire-de-sortie-de-la-mutation-reformiste|archive-date=2017-01-11|retrieved=2024-06-2024}}</ref>
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| ==== Founding of the PRCF ====
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| In 2004, the main organizers within FNANC founded the PRCF, electing Landini as President and Gastaud as the National Secretary.
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| == Ideology ==
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| ==== Marxism-Leninism ====
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| The PRCF is a Marxist-Leninist organization, its main objective being the reconstruction of a communist party in France under Marxist-Leninist principles following the organizational structure of democratic centralism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the theory of [[scientific socialism]] elaborated by [[Karl Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels]], and [[Vladimir Lenin]]. While following democratic centralist principles of party organization, it does not declare itself a party.
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| It campaigns for four main "exits", namely the exit from the European Union (which it calls a "progressive Frexit"), the euro, the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], and most importantly, [[capitalism]] as a whole.
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| ==== Socialist patriotism ====
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| The PRCF puts a strong focus on French patriotism and national sovereignty. It upholds the use of the French flag at most events, defends the use of the French language against attempts of "Anglicizing" French culture, and calls for a "Red and Tricolour Alternative" (''Alternative Rouge et Tricolore'' in French). As such, it also refers to several historical figures in the French communist movements including [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Thorez Maurice Thorez], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Cachin Marcel Cachin], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Duclos Jacques Duclos], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Frachon Benoît Frachon]. The PRCF also defends the heritage of the communist movement in France and the world, including events such as the [[Paris Commune]], the [[Russian revolution of 1917]], the French resistance to Nazi occupation, and the participation of communist ministers in the French national unity government after [[Second World War|World War II]], while strongly rejecting the European Union's likening of the Soviet Union to Nazi Germany.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initative Communiste|title=PRCF (Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France)|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/prcf-presentation/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref> In addition to communist figures, it retains a positive view of the [[French Revolution]], the Jacobins, and [[Maximilien de Robespierre]], deeming them progressive elements.
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| ==== Anti-imperialism ====
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| On the international stage, the PRCF supports the [[People's Republic of China]], [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]], [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam|Vietnam]], the [[Democratic People's Republic of Korea]], and [[Lao People's Democratic Republic|Laos]] as living examples of actually existing socialism. In 2023, party cadre Aymeric Monville visited Xinjiang as part of a tour against misinformation on China's role in an alleged [[Xinjiang Vocational Education and Training Centers|Uyghur genocide]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initative Communiste|title=Chine : Aymeric Monville revient du Xinjiang|date=2023-11-04|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/international/chine-aymeric-monville-revient-du-xinjiang/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref> In general, it critically supports countries that are not socialist but play an important role in the fight against US imperialism. For example, while condemning [[Vladimir Putin|Vladimir Putin's]] anti-communist justifications for the [[2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict|Russian invasion of Ukraine]] in 2022<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initative Communiste|title=Adresse à Vladimir V. Poutine|date=2022-06-08|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/culture-debats/adresse-a-vladimir-v-poutine/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref> and its reactionary capitalist leadership of [[Russian Federation|Russia]], it nevertheless sees the continous provocations of United States and its European proxies as the [[United States imperialism|main cause of the conflict,]] thus rejecting the thesis that the current conflict is inter-imperialist in nature. Similarly, while condemning the Venezuelan government's attacks on the Communist Party of Venezuela (''Partido Comunista de Venezuela'' in Spanish, PCV),<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initative Communiste|title=Ne touchez pas au Parti communiste du Venezuela|date=2023-05-28|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/international/ne-touchez-pas-au-parti-communiste-du-venezuela/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref> it defends the [[Hugo Chávez|Bolivarian Revolution]] and its fight against US imperialism.
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| ==== Organization ====
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| The PRCF is organized in what it calls "Associations for Communist Revival" (''Associations pour la Renaissance Communiste'' in French, ARC), organizations dependent on the party's national leadership who represent the militants of each [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France French département].
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| ==== Electoral program ====
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| In view of the 2024 French legislative elections, the PRCF submitted a 30-point program. These points include:
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| # Proclaiming the Superiority of French Laws over European Directives; initiate the urgent process of exiting the EU and the euro, re-establish national and popular sovereignty in '''all''' areas: political, military, monetary, budgetary, etc.
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| # Re-establish the One and Indivisible Republic; end euro-metropolises and euro-regions; strengthen the triptych of communes-departments-nation; promote inter-municipal cooperation on equal and cooperative bases; complete decolonization and socio-economic revitalization of overseas territories.
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| # Democratize Public Life; implement proportional representation in all elections; introduce citizen-initiated referendums; initiate a democratic process leading to a new Constituent Assembly; nationalize major media outlets and re-establish a pluralistic and democratic media landscape.
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| # Eradicate Corruption; establish citizen committees against corruption; enforce binding and recallable mandates for all elected officials; prohibit lobbying by interest groups.
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| # Restore a Safe France; dismiss all fascist and racist elements within state institutions; combat all forms of crime (especially white-collar crime, various trafficking, and organized crime) and insecurity; repeal liberticidal and xenophobic laws; establish education and work centers (Cedtra) to replace ineffective prisons.
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| # Stop all Maastrichtian counter-“reforms”; repeal all directives and policies promoting outsourcing, privatizations (SNCF, EDF-GDF, etc.), and transcontinental industrial mergers like PSA Stellantis.
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| # Nationalize banks and major strategic sectors; insurance, armaments, transport infrastructure, large-scale retail, energy, IT communication, pharmaceuticals. Thus, finance SMEs and grant new rights to employees.
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| # Rebuild and democratize public services; hospitals, schools and universities, research, equipment, postal service, justice, police, administrative services; defend public servants against incivility and hate calls from reactionary media.
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| # Reconstitute artisanal and agricultural structures; end the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the dominance of large-scale distribution and agri-food multinationals; increase state subsidies for small and medium producers and fishermen; rehabilitate local commerce by reducing and regulating urban rents.
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| # Engage in the environmental transition; tax transcontinental road freight in favor of rail freight and train lines; implement a national energy plan based on the nuclear sector and the increase of renewable energies.
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| # Restore a national currency; exit the euro to return to the Banque de France the power of monetary issuance and financial management.
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| # Cancel the so-called "sovereign debt" owed to financial markets; quickly rebuild the French State's capacity to borrow at low rates from the Banque de France to rebuild France for the workers.
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| # Control capital at the borders; end the free movement of capital with the repatriation of money hidden in all tax havens; impose drastic taxes on financial gains; confiscate the great fortunes practicing tax evasion.
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| # Implement a tax reform that severely taxes large capital and billionaires; gradually return 2/3 of the created value to wages instead of capital; 14 income tax brackets to target the richest; reduce CSG (General Social Contribution) and VAT on everyday products.
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| # Rebalance local taxes nationally so that wealthy municipalities help poor municipalities to equip themselves and build social housing to accommodate a share of migrants.
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| # Significantly increase incomes; minimum wage to 2000 euros, small and medium salaries (notably in female-dominated professions – healthcare, education, etc. – and subcontracting), small and medium pensions, unemployment benefits, housing assistance, and scholarships.
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| # Restore full pension at age 60 with 37.5 years of contributions and gradually return to 100% reimbursement of medical expenses by Social Security.
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| # Rehabilitate work in France; give permanent status to precarious workers in the public sector and strengthen permanent contracts (CDI) in the private sector; restore the national Labor Code, the hierarchy of norms, and unemployment benefits; gradually reduce the weekly working hours to 32 hours.
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| # Extend workers' rights; increase the control of works councils in the management of medium and large enterprises, both public and private; strengthen workers' rights and union freedoms in all companies; align the average female salary with the average male salary within five years.
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| # Guarantee housing for all; 100,000 additional social housing units per year; requisition vacant rental buildings; end evictions; progressively ban all real estate speculation; constitutionalize the right to housing.
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| # Rebuild a national and democratic public education system; a national baccalaureate worthy of its name, with philosophical education for all in the final year; end Parcoursup and the "shock of knowledge"; repeal the Blanquer law creating EPLEIs; end the counter-“reforms” of public research (including CNRS) and universities.
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| # Implement a progressive linguistic policy against the dominance of English; strictly apply and strengthen the Toubon Law of 1994; revitalize the Francophonie, open to the world and respectful of national and local languages; national public education of regional languages, Arabic, and Chinese.
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| # Strictly enforce secularism; extend the 1905 law to Alsace, Moselle, and Mayotte; fight against all religious fundamentalism and against anti-secular and anti-republican exploitation of religions.
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| # Defend strict republican equality; engage in a permanent fight against fascism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and separatism (communitarian, regionalist, and class-based), especially within the business sector, elected officials, and the state apparatus.
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| # Place culture at the heart of human emancipation; strengthen the status of intermittent workers in the arts; state subsidies for national and local institutions (literature, theater, cinema, libraries, opera, music, youth and cultural centers...), particularly in working-class neighborhoods and rural municipalities.
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| # Conduct a foreign policy of independence and international cooperation; exit from the Atlantic Alliance; recognition of the Palestinian State; end sanctions against countries targeted by the United States (notably Cuba); democratic reform of the UN increasing the rights of the General Assembly and ending the veto power in the Security Council.
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| # Restore military sovereignty; exit from NATO; maintain a nuclear deterrent exclusively for the defense of national territory; establish a new military combining professional soldiers with citizen conscription based on a "nation in arms" principle.
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| # Break away from capitalist globalization; exit from the IMF, WTO, and World Bank; end major "free trade agreements" (such as TTIP, CETA, etc.) in favor of relationships based on solidarity among sovereign and equal peoples, ecological planning, scientific cooperation, and regulated exchanges.
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| # Adopt a humane and realistic migration policy; exit from the Schengen Area to control border checks; regularization of all undocumented immigrants; combatting smugglers and traffickers; cooperation and co-development with countries of origin to address the causes of emigration and promote the right to return for immigrants who wish to do so.
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| # Redefine relations with "Southern countries"; end the Françafrique system by terminating "French" economic empires and neocolonial interventions in Africa; establish friendship and co-development treaties on equal and fraternal bases with countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Mediterranean.
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| == Militancy ==
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| Since its founding, the PRCF has been a strongly militant force in the French communist scene.
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| In 2006, it participated in mass protests and strikes against the passing of the law regarding the "First Employment Contract" (''contrat première embauche'' in French, CPE).<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initative Communiste|title=Mobilisation contre le CPE bis et la fin du CDI préparée par Valls MEDEF|date=2015-04-10|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/luttes/fin-du-cdi-preparee-par-valls-medef/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| In 2012, it participated in mass protests against the European Union's austerity measures, continuing to maintain that European institutions are irreformable and reactionary.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/europe-capital/tous-ensemble-a-paris-le-30-septembre-pour-dire-non-au-tscg-non-a-leuro-non-a-lue/|date=2012-09-28|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/europe-capital/tous-ensemble-a-paris-le-30-septembre-pour-dire-non-au-tscg-non-a-leuro-non-a-lue/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| Since 2018, it has supported the yellow vest movement, called for the mass participation of its members in the protests, as well as the agitation of Marxist-Leninist principles within organizations related to the movement.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Georges Gastaud|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=Le 17 novembre et après bloquer leurs profits pour défendre notre pouvoir d’achat et nos acquis|date=2018-11-15|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/prcf/17nov-le-17-novembre-et-apres-bloquer-leurs-profits-pour-defendre-notre-pouvoir-dachat-et-nos-acquis-georges-gastaud/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| Since 2022, it has been active in the protests against the pension reforms of President Emmanuel Macron and the government of Élisabeth Borne.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=Contre réforme des retraites : du front du refus majoritaire à la contre-offensive populaire tous ensemble en même temps !|date=2022-12-04|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/luttes/contre-reforme-des-retraites-du-front-du-refus-majoritaire-a-la-contre-offensive-populaire-tous-ensemble-en-meme-temps/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| On February 4, 2023, the PRCF organized an event commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad in Paris. The event was briefly interrupted by a counter-protest organized by a group of Ukrainian nationalists.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=Commémoration de #Stalingrad à Paris : il y a 80 ans les nazis sont vaincus, aujourd’hui, le combat continue.|date=2023-02-05|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/europe-capital/commemoration-de-stalingrad-a-paris-il-y-a-80-ans-les-nazis-sont-vaincus-aujourdhui-le-combat-continue/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| ==== Other initiatives ====
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| The PRCF has called for its members to organize in trade unions as much as possible, mainly among the revolutionary currents of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Confederation_of_Labour_(France) General Confederation of Labour] (''Confédération Générale du Travail'' in French, CGT).
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| The PRCF often participates in the Fête de l'Humanité, a yearly festival organized by the leftist newspaper L'Humanité. It also participates, alongside several other left-wing organizations and trade unions, to the yearly commemoration of the Paris Commune at the Mur des Fédérés in Paris.
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| The PRCF is the main organizer of the Café Marxiste, an event taking place several times every month aimed at informing and sensitizing participants on a variety of historical, theoretical, and current issues at the national, European, and international stage. The Café Marxiste is also active on social media, especially on YouTube, with the organizers publishing a livestream of every event on its [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_DXo7fgqGivWCpIusQrZhA channel].
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| Several members of the PRCF are contributors to the left-wing publishing house "Les éditions Delga".
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| In 1992, several future members and leaders of the PRCF, including Henri Alleg, founded the "Honecker Committee for Internationalist Solidarity" (''Comité Honecker de solidarité internationaliste'' in French), an organization aiming to defend the former leader of the [[German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)|German Democratic Republic]] [[Erich Honecker]] following the annexation of his country by the [[Federal Republic of Germany|West German bourgeois state]]. While largely inactive, the organization still exists today under the name of the "[https://solidarite-classe.blogspot.com/ Internationalist Committee for Class Solidarity]" (''Comité internationaliste pour la solidarité de classe'' in French, CISC).
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| ==== Participation in bourgeois elections ====
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| While calling to boycott participation in European elections the PRCF has sometimes called to support candidates in national and local elections and has also presented its own candidates.
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| In 2005, it called for rejecting the establishment of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitution_for_Europe European Constitution] and strongly campaigned for a "no" vote at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constitution_referendum referendum] on the matter.
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| During the first round of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_French_presidential_election 2017 presidential elections], the PRCF calls to support left-wing candidate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon Jean-Luc Mélenchon].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Georges Gastaud|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=Diabolisation de Mélenchon, criminalisation du combat de classe et révolutionnaire : STOP !|date=2017-10-16|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/culture-debats/diabolisation-de-melenchon-criminalisation-combat-de-classe-revolutionnaire-stop/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref> After Mélenchon's failure to reach the second round, a duel between [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] [[Emmanuel Macron]] and [[Far-right politics|far-right]] Marine Le-Pen, the PRCF rejects voting for the "lesser evil" and calls for its supporters to abstain from voting.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Gilles Questiaux|newspaper=Initative Communiste|title=MÉLENCHON manque de peu le second tour : trop de bobos, pas assez de prolos ?|date=2017-04-28|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/culture-debats/melenchon-manque-de-second-tour-de-bobos-assez-de-prolos/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| In 2021, the PRCF chooses to present Fadi Kassem, the organization's National Secretary, as a candidate to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_French_presidential_election 2022 presidential elections]. Following a campaign to include other left-wing parties and figures under a proposed "Red and Tricolour Alternative" list, the PRCF ultimately failed to receive the necessary signatures to officialize the nomination.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=Positionnement du PRCF pour le premier tour de la présidentielle|date=2022-03-11|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/prcf/positionnement-du-prcf-pour-le-premier-tour-de-la-presidentielle/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref> The PRCF's campaign was mainly a way for the organization to receive national visibility while providing a communist alternative to the plural left candidates, neoliberalism, and the far-right.
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| In 2024, the PRCF called for a boycott of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_European_Parliament_election_in_France European elections], which it sees as contributing to the process of legitimizing the European Union and its institutions, and therefore its neoliberal, imperialist, and anti-democratic policies.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=La campagne pour le boycott de l’élection européenne bat son plein : manifestation à Paris, tractage et affichage dans toute la France.|date=2024-06-02|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/europe-capital/la-campagne-pour-le-boycott-de-lelection-europeenne-bat-son-plein-manifestation-a-paris-tractage-et-affichage-dans-toute-la-france/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| Following Macron's decision to call a snap [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_French_legislative_election legislative election] after receiving poor results during the European elections in 2024, the PRCF decides to present candidates in several constituencies.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=Pour la paix et les salaires, contre le fascisme, les communistes en campagne : l’actu des candidats PRCF aux législatives anticipés, les mobilisations antifascistes.|date=2024-06-23|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/luttes/pour-la-paix-et-les-salaires-contre-le-fascisme-les-communistes-en-campagne-lactu-des-candidats-prcf-aux-legislatives-anticipes-les-mobilisations-antifascistes/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref>
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| == Relations with other organizations ==
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| The PRCF maintains relations with several organizations, both nationally and internationally.
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| Seeing its main objective as the reconstruction of the communist movement in France, it is strongly involved in dialogue with several parties and organizations. The PRCF maintains friendly relations with fellow Marxist-Leninist groups including:
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| * [https://ancommunistes.fr/ National Association of Communists] (''Association national des communistes'' in French, ANC)
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| * [http://cercles.communistes.free.fr/rcc/index.php Communist Rally] (''Rassemblement communiste'' in French, RC)
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| * [http://www.actioncommuniste.fr/ Communist Action] (''Action communiste'' in French, AC).
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| In addition, it maintains links with other groups including:
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| * [https://ms21.over-blog.com/ Movement for a Socialism of the 21st Century] (''Mouvement pour un socialisme du 21e siècle'' in French, MS21),
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| * [https://www.pouruneconstituante.fr/ Association for a Constituant] (''Association pour une constituante'' in French, AC)
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| * [https://pardem.org/ Party for Deglobalization] (''Parti de la démondialisation'' in French, PARDEM).
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| Despite the similar name, it has negative relations with the [[Communist Revolutionary Party of France]] (''Parti communiste révolutionnaire de France'' in French, PCRF).
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| On the international level, it was a former member of the [[Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (INITIATIVE) until its dissolution in 2023.
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| It currently maintains favorable international relations with several organizations in othere countries, which it calls "brother parties".<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Initiative Communiste|title=Liens|url=https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/liens/|retrieved=2024-06-24}}</ref> These include:
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| * [[German Communist Party]] (''Deutsche Kommunistische Partei'' in German, DKP); Germany
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| * [[Party of Labour of Austria]] (''Partei der Arbeit Österreichs'' in German'','' PdA); Austria
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| * [[Communist Party of Belarus]] (''Коммунисти́ческая па́ртия Белару́си'' in Russian, ''Камуністы́чная па́ртыя Белару́сі'' in Belarusian, KPB); Belarus
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| * [[Workers' Party of Korea]] (조선로동당 in Korean, WPK); Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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| * People's Democracy Party (민중민주당 in Korea, PDP); [[Republic of Korea]]
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| * [[Communist Party of Cuba]] (''Partido Comunista de Cuba'' in Spanish, PCC); Cuba
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| * [[Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain]] (''Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España'' in Spanish, PCPE); Spain
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| * [[Communist Party (Italy)|Communist Party]] (''Partito Comunista'' in Italian, PC); Italy
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| * Popular Front (Fronte Popolare in Italian, FP); Italy
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| * Party of Kanak Liberation (''Parti de libération kanak'' in French, Palika); New Caledonia
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| * African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence (''Solidarité Africaine pour la Démocratie et l'Indépendance'' in French, SADI); Mali
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| * [[Polish Communist Party (2002)|Polish Communist Party]] (''Komunistyczna Partia Polski'' in Polish, KPP); Poland
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| * [[Portuguese Communist Party]] (''Partido Comunista Português'' in Portuguese, PCP); Portugal
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| * Communist Party (''Partito Comunista'' in Italian, PC); Switzerland
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| * [[Communist Party of Ukraine]] (Комуністична партія України in Ukrainian, Коммунистическая партия Украины in Russian, KPU); Ukraine
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| On the other hand, relations are somewhat negative with the [[Communist Party of Greece]] (''Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας'' in Greek, KKE'''),''' with which it maintains diverging opinions on the nature of the conflict in Ukraine, a main cause for the dissolution of INITIATIVE. While the KKE believes the conflict is inter-imperialist in nature due to its beliefs in the "[[KKE Model|imperialist pyramid]]", the PRCF believes that the main cause of the conflict is NATO, US imperialism, and its European proxies.
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