The dying of André Lajoinie, former deputy and determine of rural communism | EUROtoday

With a good-natured demeanor, a gravelly, lilting accent, a smile on his lips, he embodied rural communism, consistent with the previous secretary basic of the French Communist Party (PCF), Waldeck Rochet. Former deputy, communist candidate within the 1988 presidential election, André Lajoinie died on November 26 on the age of 94. Fabien Roussel, nationwide secretary of the PCF, expressed his “tremendous sadness”greeting “his fights for the working classes, for his territory, for France”.

André Lajoinie was born on December 26, 1929 in Chasteaux (Corrèze). His father owns a modest farm. Very near the radical-socialists and really anti-clerical, he performs the position of public author within the village. His mom, very pious, goes to mass each Sunday. Until the age of 12, younger André was an altar boy. After acquiring his college certificates, he needed to cease his schooling, his household being too poor to permit him to proceed. He will really feel injustice. During the battle, the household listened to Radio Londres and provided the area’s maquis. Young Lajoinie doesn’t hesitate to impress his trainer by writing a “Long live de Gaulle” on the board.

At the age of 16, in 1946, André Lajoinie joined the Communist Youth, and two years later, preceded by his father, he joined the PCF. Self-taught, he took correspondence programs and after eighteen months of navy service, he returned to the farm. In 1954, he was requested to be a everlasting member of the Corrèze federation of agricultural farmers’ unions. In 1957, he was federal secretary accountable for propaganda. In 1958, throughout an indication towards the Algerian battle in Brive, he was significantly injured by the police. Plunged right into a coma, he underwent trepanation and was handled in Tulle then in Paris earlier than the get together despatched him to convalesce in Marienbad, in Czechoslovakia (right now within the Czech Republic).

An admiration for the USSR

In 1961, he ran in two cantonal elections in Corrèze however was defeated. His life took a turning level in 1962, when Waldeck Rochet referred to as him to Paris, to the agricultural part of the central committee. André Lajoinie contributes to the weekly Earth of which he turned director in 1977 till 1996. He settled in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), within the metropolis of 4,000, with Paulette Rouffiange, a communist activist (died in 1999) whom he married in 1960 and with whom he had a son, Laurent, sports activities journalist at Humanity.

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