Marcel Cachin

Marcel Cachin, born September 20, 1869 in Paimpol (Côtes-du-Nord) is a French politician and journalist who co-founded the French Section of the Communist International (with Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, Fernand Loriot and Boris Souvarine). Cachin becomes general secretary of the Communist Party after demission of Louis Sellier. He is also the director of the newspaper L'Humanité since 1918.
Old socialist having militated in the French Worker Party of Jules Guesde and in the SFIO of his creation, he joins the Sacred Union with the announcement of the war against the German Empire.
During the summer of 1920, he traveled with Ludovic-Oscar Frossard to Soviet Russia, and came back conquered by the Bolshevik Revolution. During the Congress of Tours of 1921, he was the craftsman of the adhesion to the Third International and managed to have a majority vote on his mention.
Unitary figure and repect in the communists as in the socialists, he is the ardent craftsman of the unitary strategy, on the union and political plan. Marcel Cachin was elected secretary-general of PC-SFIC in January 1926 after the Coup of 25 May 1925, he's the artisan of reborn of SFIC and a popular transpartisan figure of resistance against French authoritarian regime. 
Category:French figures