The Breton Communist Party (PCB) can trace its origins to the leftist
Breton Democratic Union (UDB) and the
May 68 period of civil unrest in France. The slow electoral progress of the UDB convinced many of its younger members to create a new, more radical party; the PCB was one of many organisations that emerged from this development. Yann-Morvan Gefflot and Jean-Pierre Vigier jointly founded the party on 1 February 1971, uniting a diverse membership of communists of different currents under the shared goal of an independent Brittany. However, most members self-identified as
Maoists. Immediately after its founding, the PCB ran unaffiliated candidates in local elections but found no electoral success. Its impact on French left-wing politics outside of elections was also minimal. The party dissolved a few years later in 1974. == Ideology ==