Communist Party (French Section of the Communist International) of the Region of Madagascar
Communist Party of the Region of Madagascar was formally constituted on August 12, 1936 at a meeting at L'Hôtel Glacier in Tananarive. The formal announcement of the formation of the party came after ten years of communist activity through different networks and four years of underground party activity. 180 person took part in the founding meeting. Paul Dussac was elected as the general secretary of the party. The party functioned as a section of the French Communist Party.
In September 1936 the newspaper La Nation malgache and changed its name to Le Prolétariat malgache, and on February 5, 1937 it was formally relaunched as the organ of PCRM. On January 23, 1937, a national bureau of the party was formed.
The party was dissolved in 1938.
