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23-871: The group's origins lay in the Internationalist Communist Party (PCI), the French section of the Fourth International . In 1952, the Fourth International removed the Central Committee of the PCI, and replaced it with one built around Michele Mestre and Pierre Frank , who were more favourable to the International's policies. This led the majority of the PCI to form a new organisation, also known as

46-693: A new group, the Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International , with some supporters the following year. In 1981, the OCI again renamed itself as the "Internationalist Communist Party". In 1984, it formed a Movement for a Workers Party , with various independent socialists. However, Stephane Just opposed this new initiative, and was expelled with some supporters. Further splits ensued: in 1986, several hundred members, led by Jean-Christophe Cambadélis , left to join

69-658: The Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) in 1974. Alexis Corbi%C3%A8re Alexis Corbière ( French pronunciation: [alɛksi kɔʁbjɛʁ] ; born 17 August 1968) is a French politician. He has been member of the National Assembly for the 7th constituency of the Seine-Saint-Denis department since 2017 . Corbière was also a spokesperson for La France Insoumise and the party's leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon in

92-681: The Socialist Party where he was elected as the deputy mayor for the 12th arrondissement of Paris in 2001 and would continue to hold this position until 2014. In 2008, Corbière, Mélenchon, and several others left the PS and founded the Left Party . He was also elected to the Council of Paris the same year. He headed FI's first national convention in the suburbs of Lille in 2016. After being re-elected despite being de-selected by FI ahead of

115-696: The Socialist Party . In 1989, historian Pierre Broué was expelled, with around one hundred supporters. In 1991, the Movement for a Workers Party declared itself the Workers Party and the Internationalist Communist Party joined it as the Internationalist Communist Current . Dissenting members including Andre Langevin , Pedro Carrasquedo and Alexis Corbière were expelled by 1992, and

138-760: The Youth Hostels (40,000 members at the time). Yvan Craipeau , PCI executive who sent André Essel , future CEO of Fnac , to the JS, then held “fraction meetings” with all of the JS management and 3 of the 12 members of the SFIO management (including Deputy National Secretary Yves Dechézelles ). In addition to Dechézelles, Adrien Tixier , chief of staff to the Minister of the Interior, Robert Pontillon (near future of Mitterrand), Roger Fajardie (future leader of FO and

161-845: The independence of Algeria , the Cuban Revolution and the Vietnam liberation movement , as well as by its critical support for Josip Broz Tito during the Yugoslav-Soviet split . It was also organized within the Union of Communist Students (UEC), then created the Revolutionary Communist Youth (JCR) in 1966, around Alain Krivine (member of the PCI since 1960). Active with the student movement in May 68 ,

184-428: The 2017 French presidential election, before falling out of favor with party leadership prior to the snap 2024 legislative election , in which La France Insoumise supported a previously-unelected candidate against Corbière. He survived the "purge" by winning the 7th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis with 57.16% of the vote. A former member of the Revolutionary Communist League from 1993 to 1997, Corbière then joined

207-576: The Current has since occupied a leading role in the Workers Party. Its central figure is Daniel Gluckstein , although Lambert remained a member until his death in 2008. Internationalist Communist Party (France) Historical Historical The Internationalist Communist Party ( French : Parti Communiste Internationaliste , PCI ) was a Trotskyist political party in France . It

230-662: The Grand Orient de France), Max Théret (friend of Mitterrand and co-founder of the Fnac) and Jean Rous were among the socialists close to the PCI. Having come out of hiding at the end of 1945, the PCI presented candidates in 11 departments during the June 1946 French legislative election , gaining between 2 and 5% of the vote, although Yvan Craipeau failed to be elected by a few hundred votes in Taverny (Val-d'Oise). After 1952,

253-877: The Internationalist Communist Party, and led by Pierre Lambert and Marcel Bleibtreu . In 1953, the Fourth International suffered a major split, and the Socialist Workers Party of the United States , the British group The Club and some smaller groups forming the International Committee of the Fourth International , with Lambert's PCI. The PCI supported the FLN during the Algerian War of Independence . Disagreements over which faction to support led Lambert to expel Bleibtreu from

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276-721: The OCI and the British Socialist Labour League as the only two sections continuing the ICFI. Despite attempts to expand the ICFI, the two sides developed opposing policies on many issues, including Arab nationalism - the OCI adopting a dual defeatist position in the Six-Day War . The OCI left the ICFI in 1971, the Socialist Labour League accusing it of fetishing Trotsky 's Transitional Programme over Marxist theory . It set up

299-577: The PCI had around 200 activists, mainly intellectuals ( Maurice Nadeau , Laurent Schwartz , Félix Guattari , etc.). However, it was joined from 1956 by PCF activists from the “La Voie communiste” group (which included Félix Guattari, by entryism ) following the publication of the Krushchev report , the Hungarian Revolution , and the worsening of the Algerian War . The PCI invested itself mainly in anti-colonial struggles by supporting

322-600: The PCI had expectations of rapid growth and for a time did expand, but that growth was soon ended when a majority of the organisation broke away when a projected fusion with the Socialist Youth federation of the Seine failed to materialise. The PCI very quickly found subjects of tension around the role of the new party and on the nature of the Soviet Union . It underwent several splits during its history, sometimes in

345-482: The PCI in 1955. Future Prime Minister of France , Lionel Jospin , joined the group in 1960 and remained an active member for over ten years. In 1967, the PCI renamed itself the "Internationalist Communist Organisation". It grew rapidly during the May 1968 student demonstrations, but was banned alongside other far left groups, such as the Gauche prolétarienne (Proletarian Left). Members temporarily reconstituted

368-603: The PCI was dissolved by the government on June 12, 1968 at the same time as the JCR. But at the beginning of June 1968, the PCI began to prepare the merger with the JCR, and in 1969, the two other organizations became the Communist League . This was then dissolved in 1973 by the Minister of the Interior Raymond Marcellin following an attack on a New Order meeting, before re-forming under the name of

391-673: The Trotskyist press as "anti-Trotskyist". Pierre Lambert was one of its militants from 1937. This small group had an ephemeral existence, effectively disappearing at the start of World War II . However, in May 1942, a representative of the Paris section met in the free zone members of the group of Austrian Communist Revolutionaries in exile in France. Following the Liberation of France ,

414-585: The form of simple departures of personalities. In 1945, David Rousset left the PCI to form with Jean-Paul Sartre , in 1948, the Revolutionary Democratic Rally (RDR). In 1947, the Socialism or Barbarism tendency ( Cornelius Castoriadis , Claude Lefort ) left the party to move towards councilist positions, considering the Soviet Union to be state capitalist and not as a " degenerated workers' state " (a strategic question in

437-655: The group as the Trotskyist Organisation , but soon obtained a state order permitting the reformation of the OCI. By 1970, the OCI was able to organise a 10,000-strong youth rally . [1] Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine The group also gained a strong base in trade unions . The majority of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) joined the reunified Fourth International in 1963, leaving

460-561: The interior of the Stalinist parties, then advocated by the Fourth International which considered that the victory of the Stalinist bureaucracy was imminent. The small party then split into two rival groups both of which continued to use the same name. From 1945, the PCI infiltrated the Socialist Youth (JS), where young people from the PCI and the JS did joint training courses and camps in 1945-47. Together, they took control of

483-579: The other Trotskyists, and later gave birth to Lutte Ouvrière . The name chosen, Internationalist Communist Party, took up that of a French Trotskyist party created by Raymond Molinier and Pierre Frank in March 1936, which published the newspaper La Commune . This party had opposed the "official" section (recognized by Leon Trotsky ), the Internationalist Workers Party of Jean Rous and Yvan Craipeau and had been described by

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506-760: The report to the French Communist Party ). In 1948, Yvan Craipeau 's tendency was excluded. The latter would later become president of the Federation of the Alpes-Maritimes of the PSU, other members of this tendency such as Jean-René Chauvin , joined the RDR and were excluded on the grounds of this dual membership. In 1952, the majority was excluded from the PCI by the minority of Pierre Frank and Michèle Mestre : these militants refused entry into

529-589: Was the name taken by the French Section of the Fourth International from its foundation until a name change in the late 1960s. The Internationalist Communist Party was created in March 1944 by the merger of several Trotskyist groups, representing around 500 militants, in particular: The negotiations were prepared by the Greek Michel Raptis , alias "Pablo". The UCI (Union Communiste Internationaliste, or Barta Group ) refused to merge with

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