The Pole of Communist Revival in France (french: Pôle de renaissance communiste en France, PRCF) is a French political party founded in January 2004. It was an internal tendency 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 Un ...

(PCF) that left the party, rejecting the PCF's "mutation" beginning in the early 1990s. The president-delegate of the PRCF is Leon Landini, the president of the National Political Committee (CPN) is Jean-Pierre Hemmen, the national, directing political spokesman of ''Communist Initiative'' is Georges Gastaud, and Georges Hage, a former member of parliament for the Nord departement and senior of the

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, is the honorary president. The PRCF is organized in associations in the

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, sections and cells ( democratic centralism). It is based on the theory of

scientific socialism Scientific socialism is a term coined in 1840 by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his book '' What is Property?'' to mean a society ruled by a scientific government, i.e., one whose sovereignty rests upon reason, rather than sheer will: Thus, in a given ...

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
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and other revolutionary thinkers. The PRCF publishes the ''Initiative communiste'' (''Communist Initiative'') monthly magazine and the theoretical review ''EtincelleS''. The organisation broadcasts a programme called ''Convergence'' each Monday from 8 to 9 pm on ''Radio Galère''. Its youth wing, Young People for the Communist Revival in France (JRCF), took part in the mass movement against the Contrat première embauche in 2006.

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* 2004 establishments in France Communist parties in France Far-left politics in France Eurosceptic parties in France Political parties established in 2004 {{France-party-stub