“For the Communist Party, competition from LFI is very clear in urban areas” | EUROtoday

Roger Martelli is a historian, former member of the French Communist Party (PCF) and specialist within the historical past of communism. He explains why the double competitors of rebellious France (LFI) and the National Rally (RN) is a formidable difficulty of the municipal elections of March 2026 for the PCF.

What stays of municipal communism?

There might be an attachment to a narrative. But the originality of what has executed municipal communism – sports activities, cultural tools, crèches, summer season camps, and so forth. – Reduced. Everyone is about the identical factor in the present day. As for the variety of municipalities, it’s in the present day someplace between 630 and 660. At the Liberation, the PCF, very established within the constructions of the Resistance, controls some 2,000 municipalities. In 1977, within the wake of the Union of the left, he directed practically 1,500, or 8.5 million inhabitants.

From its creation, in 1920, the PCF was established within the territories marked by a radical republican custom, similar to Allier or Puy-de-Dôme, but additionally within the common peripheries of urbanization of huge cities. And this second subject of growth offers its shade to municipal communism. It is a sort of administration very marked by consideration to social demand. And, whereas employees occupy an more and more essential place in society, the communist municipalities provide a political dimension to this growth. It is a spot of common sociability, the place a working inhabitants can categorical themselves and assert its dignity to entry political tasks.

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