The External Relations of the European Union
Journal: Peter Lang B eBooks
Year: 2015

Meanwhile, the reaction of the French press to the Polish strikes was mixed. Perhaps the most remarkable attitude was that of L'Humanit, the French Communist Party's (PCF Parti communiste franais) national newspaper. The French Communist Party's attitude to the Polish crisis was indeed perplexing. In the 1980s, the PCF was the most pro-Soviet Communist party in Europe. It is true that after the publication of The Gulag Archipelago (1974), the PCF had begun to follow a line closer to that of the