LICA’s founder was expelled from the Communist Party as a frivolous bourgeois journalist

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The MRAP retrospectively justified its own creation with reference to the inaction of the LICA, which it accused of having ‘completely vanished into thin air the moment the Germans arrived in Paris’. Ironically, the founder of the LICA, Bernard Lecache, was quite sympathetic to the Soviet Union and a founder member of the Communist Party, but had been expelled during the bolshevisation of the party in 1923 on the grounds that he was a kind of frivolous bourgeois journalist who was bringing the party into disrepute. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1366

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• SHARE: The irony of Lecache — founder of an anti-Communist antiracist league who was himself an expelled Communist founder — is a tidbit for anyone interested in French leftist or Jewish political history.