Carnets Marcel Cachin – Moscou – année 1935

Cachin, Marcel; Peschanski, Denis; Cœuré, Sophie; Girault, Jacques; Monier, Frédéric; Santamaria, Yves

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“…On 19 January 1947, Marcel Cachin, a Communist deputy, expressed fears that 'they want to throw us into the opposition' and that the MRP's policy is to make things worse'. 16 Similarly, on 17 February 1947, the Political Bureau noted nervously that the government's wage policy was intended to undermine the PCF and could lead to a 'more right wing oriented governmental formula'. 17 Communist leaders also questioned the value of their alliance with the Socialists.…”

Section: The French Political Crisis and The Mounting Isolation Of The Pcfmentioning

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The Failure of the French Tripartite Experiment in May 1947

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2012

European History Quarterly

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Why was the French Communist Party (PCF) evicted in May 1947, only two years after it was asked to join the Socialists (SFIO) and the Christian Democrats (MRP) in a tripartite government? According to Pierre Grosser, the chief cause of the eviction was the pressure exerted by the United States on MRP and SFIO leaders, who distanced themselves from their Communist counterparts. While rejecting the thesis of an American-led conspiracy, Irwin Wall also underlines the role of MRP and SFIO politicians, whom he believed nourished strong anti-Communist feelings. The assumption is therefore that of a passive role for the PCF, the aspirations of which were limited to the seizure of power through democratic means. In contrast, this article argues that the Communists had a strategic interest in their own expulsion. Given what they perceived as a French alignment with the Western bloc at the Moscow Conference in April 1947, they began to weigh the advantages of a temporary eviction from government. They concluded that this would allow them to regain the support of the discontented working class and force the MRP and the SFIO to finally concede some of their demands. The hope was to stage their retour en force to the government at a later point. Their abstention in a vote on military appropriations for Indochina on 19 March 1947 brought them close to expulsion. However, it was not until their defiance of government wage policy that Paul Ramadier finally evicted them on 5 May 1947. In retrospect, contrary to the PCF’s original plan, its ‘temporary’ return to the opposition was to last more than 30 years.

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Section: The French Political Crisis and The Mounting Isolation Of The Pcfmentioning

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The Failure of the French Tripartite Experiment in May 1947

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2012

European History Quarterly

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“…Même s'il rejette le port d'un uniforme, il défend implicitement une logique paramilitaire puisqu'il précise : « Pas d'arme, pas de chemise, mais avec les officiers et sous-officiers répu-blicains ; défense républicaine. » 37 En outre, le dirigeant communiste propose de mettre en place un véritable système de renseignement pour « surveiller les actes publics des fascistes et les faire localement surveiller par le Front populaire » 38 .…”

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Violence et politique dans la France des années 1930 : e cas de l'autodéfense communiste

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2006

Revue Historique

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Carnets Marcel Cachin – Moscou – année 1935

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The Failure of the French Tripartite Experiment in May 1947

The Failure of the French Tripartite Experiment in May 1947

Violence et politique dans la France des années 1930 : e cas de l'autodéfense communiste

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