The Tours Congress and the Birth of the French Communist Party It is now 100 years since the Tours Congress of 25 to 31 December 1920, when the majority of…
The French Miners Strike of 1948: Some Scraps of history What little information I've managed to dig up on what seems to have been an important struggle in…
The shoot-out at Rue Grange aux Belles, 1924 A short account of the incident that signalled a major rift between the Communist Party and the anarchists in France.
The Black Sea mutiny: the Marty myth and the role of the anarchists A look at the French Communist Party's mystification of the 1919 Black Sea mutiny.
