Henri Barbé
Henri Barbé (14 March 1902, in Paris – 24 May 1966, in Paris) was a French Communist, and later, fascist politician.
Life
A metallurgical worker, at 15 he joined the Young Socialists. Attending the Third International, he naturally opted for the French Communist Party (PCF), at the split of the Congress of Tours.
In 1926, he was promoted to secretary general of the Young Communists.
In 1928, he was a member of the executive of the Comintern.
In 1929, he replaced Pierre Sémard as head of the PCF, in a team which also included Maurice Thorez and Pierre Célor.
In 1931, he was questioned in the course of a meeting of the BP (Bureau Politique), attended by Dmitry Manuilsky, Secretary of the Third International. Ejected from the BP (and replaced by Thorez) during case which was known as the Barbé-Célor affair. He took a long stay in Moscow and wrote a number of self criticisms. Returning to France, Barbé was eventually expelled from the Communist Party in 1934 for having "ultra-left" positions.
In 1934, he and Jacques Doriot founded the French Popular Party (PPF).
Under the occupation, he joined the National Popular Rally (RNP) under Marcel Déat. Condemned to forced labour in 1944 after the liberation of France, he was released at the end of 1949, and participated in the anti-communist magazine Est & Ouest which sought to promote "reasoned and scientific anticommunism". In 1959, he converted to Catholicism and was baptised. Until his death in 1966, he regularly collaborated in the monthly Catholic review Itinéraires founded by Jean Madiran in 1956.
Sources
- Philippe Robrieux, Histoire intérieure du parti communiste, T1 and T4, Fayard
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- Ludovic-Oscar Frossard (1921–1923)
- Louis Sellier and Albert Treint (1923–1924)
- Louis Sellier (1924)
- Pierre Semard (1924–1929)
- Henri Barbé, Pierre Célor, Benoît Frachon and Maurice Thorez (1929–1930)
- Maurice Thorez (1930–1950)
- Jacques Duclos (1950–1953)
- Maurice Thorez (1953–1964)
- Waldeck Rochet (1964–1969)
- Georges Marchais (1969–1972)
- Waldeck Rochet (1972)
- Georges Marchais (1972–1994)
- Robert Hue (1994–2001)
- Marie-George Buffet (2001–2010)
- Pierre Laurent (2010–2018)
- Fabien Roussel (2018–present)
- History of the French Communist Party
- List of French Communist Party congresses
- French Section of the Workers' International
- Tours Congress
- Headquarters
- Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France
- Union of Communist Students
- National Front (French Resistance)
- Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP-MOI)
- Union of Russian Patriots
- French Resistance
- National Council of the Resistance
- May 1947 crises
- MRAP
- Institut Maurice Thorez
- Programme commun
- Unitary Left
- Marxism–Leninism
- Eurocommunism
- Cité Gagarine
- Socialist-Communist Union
- Workers and Peasants Party
- Proletarian Unity Party
- French Popular Party
- Federation of Marxist-Leninist Circles in France / Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of France
- Workers' Communist Party of France
- Convention for a Progressive Alternative
- Pole of Communist Revival in France
- Movement of Progressives
- Popular Front (1936–1938)
- French Committee of National Liberation (1940–1947)
- Plural Left (1997–2002)
- Left Front (2008–present)