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...faithful struggled to keep their wares as unsullied as their ideology. Neither was easy for France's Communist Party (P.C.F.) last week as hundreds of thousands of members and sympathizers gathered for their annual fund-raising fair, the fête de l'humanité, in a 37-acre park in the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve. While construction workers, secretaries and concierges wrestled with their crepes, foie gras and muscadet in the pounding rain, party leaders were striving to maintain loyalty on the most emotional issue of the day: the shooting down of Korean...
...France, the Communist daily L'Humanité took the opportunity to attack Reagan and to attract attention to the peace march held in Paris last Sunday. Beneath a front-page photograph of Reagan before a mushroom cloud, the paper ran the giant headline: NO EUROSHIMA! But the government of President François Mitterrand supported its American ally...
...murder momentous news in France. As if the crime were another scholarly event, some Parisian newspapers, and the academic circles in which Althusser had moved, treated it with the same sort of erudition and emotion they had once directed toward his books and articles. The Communist newspaper L'Humanité's report reads like an obituary not so much for the murdered Mme. Althusser as for "our comrade," the Algerian-born, Catholic-reared philosopher who had switched from conservatism to Communism after five years as a German P.O.W. in World War II. Le Monde, which had published...
...short, the French Communist Party's 42nd Fête de I'Humanité last week was outwardly the same as always. Part county fair, part political convention, the annual get-together is a celebration of gastronomy, games and proletarian sloganeering that for two days turns the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve into a Communist carnival. Yet for all the gourmandizing hoopla, this year's fete was hardly the joyful event of the past few Septembers, when the party was confidently anticipating a leftist victory in last March's parliamentary elections. In the wake...
Would all this dissent have much effect on the party leadership? Not immediately. Commenting on Marchais's speech, L 'Humanité insisted that the address proved that "serious, interesting and positive discussion is unfolding within our party." Marchais himself, when he first heard the rumblings within his ranks, magnanimously announced that "no heads would roll" because of it. That seems a safe bet in his own case, since no one expects any changes in the rigid party leadership any time soon. But if the party continues to learn nothing and forget nothing about the changing shape of France...