Melchior, Hugo

Revolutionary Activism in Hiding - 2016.


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In a bid to restore public order after ten days at a national standstill, General de Gaulle imposed by decree the dissolution of eleven far-left organizations. Contrary to all the other now illegal revolutionary organizations, the PCMLF (the French Leninist-Marxist Communist Party) chose to keep using the PCMLF acronym. From then on, the Leninist-Marxist organization and its activists were forced to go underground to maintain the organization illegally. Its activists were therefore obliged to conceal part, if not all, of their regular political activities in order to protect themselves from State repression.