Avant-garde (press)

See also: Avant-garde

Wash-guard is a French monthly magazine, founded in September 1920 by a group of young Socialists rejoined with the communist ideas. It is related to the Mouvement of the young Communists of France.

History

Founded with Communist youth in 1920, the evolution of Avant-garde followed that of the movement, without its publication never stopping. Originally called the working and communist Avant-garde or the working and country Avant-garde , 826 numbers will be published until 1939. The monthly magazine becomes clandestine then and its publication is less regular, but does not cease. In 1944, it becomes the monthly magazine of the Union of the republican youth of France, movement created around the JC to federate all the left forces resulting from the Résistance. When, in 1956, the Mouvement of the young Communists of France is recreated, it becomes again its monthly magazine.

The newspaper changes name into 1963, whereas the Union of the agricultural youth of France and the Union of the young girls of France join the JC: it becomes Us them boys and the girls , fusion of the rural Avant-garde and Filles of France . It takes again its name in 1969 however, and if it changes formula twice, in 1977 and 1994, its name, it, remain the same one.