One hundred years of communism in Val-de-Marne: at 90, Jacques, the oldest activist in Vitry, remains active

In 1925, the Communist Party wasn't yet called the French Communist Party, but it was already making its way into town halls. A story that had been going on for a century in certain municipalities in Val-de-Marne . With the political season at its hottest, and just days before the Fête de l'Humanité, Le Parisien takes you back to these 100 years of communism. Here are five spotlights on personalities, events, and ideas.

He lived through the time when communists were organized into cells in their workplaces. Suffice to say, he wasn't born yesterday. "The Party has the ambition to revive them," assures Jacques Thomas, a resident of Vitry-sur-Seine ( Val-de-Marne ) who, at 90, still keeps up to date. He wasn't born when the May 1925 elections marked the arrival of a workers' coalition at the head of Vitry , composed of communists and socialists.