List of French Communist Party congresses List of congresses held by the French Communist Party. Date Congress Place 25–30 December 1920 Congrès de Tours Tours 25–30 December 1921 1st Congress Marseille 15–20 October 1922 2nd Congress Paris 20–24 January 1924 3rd Congress Lyon 17–21 January 1925 4th Congress Clichy 20–26 June 1926 5th Congress Lille 31 March - 7 April 1929 6th Congress Saint-Denis 11–19 March 1932 7th Congress Paris 22–25 January 1936 8th Congress Villeurbanne 25–29 December 1937 9th Congress Arles 26–30 June 1945 10th Congress Paris 25–28 June 1947 11th Congress Strasbourg 2–6 April 1950 12th Congress Gennevilliers 3–6 June 1954 13th Congress Ivry-sur-Seine 18–21 July 1956 14th Congress Le Havre 25–30 May 1959 15th Congress Ivry-sur-Seine 11–14 May 1961 16th Congress Saint-Denis 14–17 May 1964 17th Congress Paris 4–8 May 1967 18th Congress Levallois-Perret 4–8 February 1970 19th Congress Nanterre 13–17 December 1972 20th Congress Saint-Ouen 24–27 October 1974 21st Congress Vitry-sur-Seine 4–8 February 1976 22nd Congress L'Île-Saint-Denis 9–13 May 1979 23rd Congress Saint-Ouen 3–7 February 1982 24th Congress Saint-Ouen 6–10 February 1985 25th Congress Saint-Ouen 2–6 December 1987 26th Congress Saint-Ouen 18–22 December 1990 27th Congress Saint-Ouen 25–29 January 1994 28th Congress Saint-Ouen 25–22 December 1996 29th Congress La Défense 23–26 March 2000 30th Congress Martigues 26–28 October 2001 31st Congress La Défense 3–6 April 2003 32nd Congress Saint-Denis 23–26 March 2006 33rd Congress Le Bourget 11–14 December 2008 34th Congress La Défense 18–20 June 2010 35th Congress La Défense 7–10 February 2013 36th Congress Aubervilliers 2-5 June 2016 37th Congress Aubervilliers 23–26 March 2018 38th Congress Ivry-sur-Seine 7–8 April 2023 39th Congress Marseille French Communist PartyGeneral Secretary 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) Related articles 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 Publications L'Humanité Le Travailleur de Lot-et-Garonne Le Travailleur du Centre Ouest Le Travailleur du Loiret L'Enchaîné du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais Front rouge La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime La Voix de l'Est Le Prolétaire normand Les Lettres Françaises Pif Gadget Derivatives 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 Related Popular Front (1936–1938) French Committee of National Liberation (1940–1947) Plural Left (1997–2002) Left Front (2008–present) Parliamentary groups National Assembly Senate