this led to a split in the french fraction and the formation of the gauche communiste de france by the french fraction led by marco. the history of the gcf belongs to the post-war period. meanwhile, the former members of the french fraction who sympathised with vercesi and the internationalist communist party formed a new french fraction which published the journal "l'etincelle" and was joined at the end of 1945 by the old minority of the fraction who had joined "l'union communiste" in the 1930s.