The Communist Revolutionary Party (, PRC) or CRP, previously known as ''Communistes'', is a French political party officially founded in March 2002 after a split of the

French Communist Party The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Unit ...

(FCP). Its founder and first national secretary was Rolande Perlican.

History

The ''Communistes'' organization was founded in June 2000, when a group of FCP militants of ''L'appel des 500'' ("The Call of 500") left the party during the 30th Congress held in

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. Their coordinator at the time was Rolande Perlican, former senator and member of the FCP National Committee, who left the party declaring: In March 2002, ''Communistes'' held its founding congress and defined itself as the party which would replace the FCP and as a revolutionary party. The congress elected Rolande Perlican as the National Secretary and she was reconfirmed during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Congress in June 2004, 2006, 2008 and November 2010 respectively. In December 2012, she was replaced by Antonio Sanchez, who would be re-elected in November 2014. ''Communistes'' merged with the Union of Revolutionary Communists of France (''Union des révolutionnaires-Communistes de France'', URCF) in 2015 and became the Communist Revolutionary Party (''Parti révolutionnaire Communistes'', PRC). URCF regained its independence in the following year and with the Intervention Communiste collective founded

Communist Revolutionary Party of France The Revolutionary Communist Party of France (French: ''Parti communiste révolutionnaire de France'', abbreviated PCRF) is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party founded in 2016. It was the result of a merger of ''Intervention Com ...

(''Parti communiste révolutionnaire de France'').

Ideology

The party declares itself as a "revolutionary party of avant-garde" with Marxist-Leninist ideology. Other characteristics of the group are its self-declaration as «the only communist party in France", the denial of common actions with other communist organizations close to Marxism-Leninism and the "orthodoxy". The PRC is against every alliance with left forces which are criticized for their reformist policy supporting

capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for Profit (economics), profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, pric ...

. According to CRP members, the Communist Party of France has left the

class struggle Class conflict, also referred to as class struggle and class warfare, is the political tension and economic antagonism that exists in society because of socio-economic competition among the social classes or between rich and poor. The forms ...

and has formed alliance with other left forces, the Socialist Party in particular after its participation to the ''

programme commun The Programme commun (or 'Common Programme') was a reform programme, signed 27 June 1972 by the Socialist Party, the French Communist Party and the centrist Radical Movement of the Left, which provided a great upheaval in the economic, political ...

'' and then to the second Mauroy cabinet, including their involvement into the

Plural Left The Gauche Plurielle (French for ''Plural Left'') was a left-wing coalition in France, composed of the Socialist Party (''Parti socialiste'' or PS), the French Communist Party (''Parti communiste français'' or PCF), the Greens, the Left Radi ...

Elections

''Communistes'' tries to present its candidates to local and national elections, mainly in cities like

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. The party presented 21 candidates for the

2004 French cantonal elections Cantonal elections to elect half the membership of the general councils of France's 100 departments were held on 21 and 28 March 2004. These elections coincided with the left's landslide in the regional elections held at the same time and also ...

, obtaining between the 0.71 and 5.47% of votes (an average of 1.8%). At the 2007 legislative elections, it obtained 45 seats (between 0.17 and 2.04%) and 16 at the 2008 cantonal elections (1.07- 6.08%). ''Communistes'' presented 23 candidates to the 2011 cantonal elections and took part to the 2017 legislative elections. For the

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, the party presented Christophe Ricerchi as candidate. At the

2014 European Parliament election in France The 2014 European Parliament election in France for the election of the 8th delegation from France to the European Parliament took place on 24 May 2014 in the overseas territories of France, and on 25 May 2014 in metropolitan France. The num ...

, CRP proposed candidates in every electoral district of

metropolitan France Metropolitan France (french: France métropolitaine or ''la Métropole''), also known as European France (french: Territoire européen de la France) is the area of France which is geographically in Europe. This collective name for the European ...

; however, preferences did not exceed the 0.1%. The ''Parti révolutionnaire Communistes'' presented itself to the

2019 European Parliament election The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peopl ...

with Antonio Sanchez as front-leader, obtaining 1 413 votes corresponding to the 0.01% of preferences. It was the only list to not have the bulletin validated by the Propaganda commission, invalidating almost all the votes, unless a copy was previously deposed in every town hall.

Electoral results

European elections

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.sitecommunistes.org Political parties established in 2002 Communist parties in France