Michel Lequenne  Michel Lequenne (25 May 1921 – 13 February 2020) was a French politician and activist. He was particularly interested in Christopher Columbus and the Russian Revolution. Lequenne began working at age 14 in the youth hostels of France. He participated in the clandestine congress of Secular Center of Youth Hostels in 1940 before it was shut down by the German Occupation. He moved to Le Mans after the bombing of Le Havre. Shortly thereafter, he left for Paris as part of the Service du travail obligatoire, where he worked as an assistant accountant. He began working with Trotskyist groups, and aided in the formation of the Internationalist Communist Party (PCI). Lequenne was forced to relocate thrice during the Occupation, but eventually moved back to Paris to work as a construction worker. As a construction worker, he joined a union managed by the General Confederation of Labour. He moved up in the ranks of the union until he was unmasked as a Trotskyist by the Communist Party. Lequenne became a leftist leader in the PCI alongside Pierre Frank, Marcel Bleibtreu, and Marcel Gibelin, and soon led the Paris region of the party. In early 1947, the party became controlled by the so-called "right-wing", led by Yvan Craipeau, Paul Parisot, Albert Demazière, and Jean-René Chauvin. Lequenne was placed in charge of opening two suburban party offices by Craipeau. He worked as a proofreader for the magazine "Quatrième Internationale" before finding work full-time at Éditions du Pré aux clercs as he was hired by Jean Malaquais. He often had disputes with Jacques Prévert, André Verdet, and Julien Blanc. After the departures of Parisot and Craipeau, Lequenne became an editor at "La Vérité" and "L'Unité". From 1948 to 1950, Yugoslavia's breakup with the Soviet Union was the central area of Lequenne's work. He also became an editorial secretary at "Contemporains", a political journal directed by Clara Malraux. "Contemporains" was founded by individuals who split from the French Communist Party over disputes about the Yugoslav affair, such as Jean Cassou, Jean Duvignaud, Claude Aveline, and Louis Martin-Chauffier. In 1952, the Pabloite movement swept across the PCI, and the Pabloite minority split from the party.