Guy-Virgile Martin

Guy-Virgile Martin (1921 - 2006), politician French, Communist militant and resistant.

Combatant in the Free French Army

Guy-Virgile Martin is born and grows with the Morocco, then under French protectorate; he makes studies at the Teacher training school to become teaching.

Called under the flags of the colonial army it joined the free French Forces of the general Charles de Gaulle. It takes part in the countryside of Italy, with the unloading in Normandy then with the release of Paris within the 2 {{E}} armor-plated division where it is the estafette of the colonel Pierre Billotte, future mayor of Creteil.

It was decorated with the Military Cross.

Guy-Virgile Martin militates then in North Africa, with Algerian FLN and becomes one of the persons in charge of the Moroccan Communist party, before being expelled of the country in 1965.

Communist elect

On his arrival in France, Guy-Virgile Martin settles with Creteil, city then located in the department of the Seine, become in 1967 the prefecture of the new department of the the Valley-of-Marne.

He obtains a post of professor of history-geography to the Plaisance college of Creteil. He becomes trade unionist within the National union of the teachers, member of the Fédération of state education (FEN), an autonomous organization, where he joined the current Unité and action, near to the Communists.

Guy-Virgile Martin is candidate for various elections under the label of the PCF: elections cantonal in Creteil in 1976, where he desists for the Socialist Laurent Cathala with the second turn, municipal always in Creteil in 1977, where he appears behind the communist president of the general advice of the Valley-of-Marne, Michel Germa.

In 1983, Guy Martin, joined the list of the socialist mayor Laurent Cathala and become mayor-assistant in charge with the social affairs, solidarity and early childhood until 1989. In 1984, he is elected regional adviser of Île-de-France.

Guy Martin assumes responsibilities in the Communist party with the section for Creteil and the federation of the Val de Marne. He is parliamentary secretary of Georges Marchais, appointed communist of the Val de Marne and general secretary of PCF.

In 2000, it expresses its dissension with the line of PCF, leaves the party and creates with two former elected officials of the Val de Marne, Guy Poussy, former general adviser of Champigny-sur-Marne, and Guy Gibout, former mayor of Joinville-le-Pont, a group baptized “communist Combat”, which affirms “anxious social democrat drift of PCF”.

At the time of the presidential election, the group had been shown very held with respect to the candidature of the national secretary of the Communist party, Marie-George Buffet, appointed Seine-Saint-Denis. With the second turn, Guy-Virgile Martin refused to support the socialist candidate Ségolène Royal, appointed of Two-Sevres, and estimated that “the popular vote (…) could not constitute itself in clamp for Ségolène Royal. The blank vote is the only one which does not handicap the future. ”

Sources

Site of the review Fights communist
Biographical note in the newspaper Humanity, Paris, 6/12/2006

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