Congratulations to the French Communist Party on the 30th Anniversary of Its Founding

(December 26, 1950)

Dear Comrade Duclos[1] and all comrades of the French Communist Party:

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China celebrates with immense joy the 30th anniversary of the French Communist Party.

In its thirty years of struggle, the French Communist Party has proven itself to be the most faithful defender of the interests of the French working class and the interests of the entire French people.

The French Communist Party and the French working class are uniting the entire French people to resolutely oppose the war plans of the United States government, plans which demand that the French people become slaves and sacrificial victims of United States monopoly capital.

The Communist Party of China firmly believes that the struggle of the French Communist Party is just and is bound to achieve final victory.

Long live the solidarity of the Chinese people and the French people in the common struggle against the aggression of American imperialism!

Long live the French Communist Party and its leader, Comrade Maurice Thorez, devoted entirely to the interests of the French working class and the international working class!

Long live Comrade Stalin, leader of the working class and progressive humanity of the whole world!

Mao Zedong
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

[1] Duclos, then serving as Acting General Secretary of the French Communist Party.