Meanwhile "the communists" are actually only the PCF, those decline is well documented. So the PCF is more correctly described as but one of several communist parties in France.
-Brad Mayer
> Nationwide the non-Socialist and non-Communist left did very well. In
> addition to the Greens, the two Marxist parties (Alain Krivine's and
Arlette
> Laguiller's) that had been left for dead got very respectable scores,
> reaching 10% in some cities. This leaves the Socialists in an interesting
> position if they want to form new alliances on the left. Especially since
> the communists are in free fall. They lost their last city of more than
> 100,000 people, Nimes. They also lost some strongholds in the Paris
suburbs
> nicknamed "The Red Belt" since the 1930s. It truly feels like the end of
an
> era there.
>
> Elisabeth
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