Summer is often the time for the balance sheets for editors. And at www.initiative-communiste.fr we are used to making the point on the evolution of our audiences. It is also, we must say the opportunity to thank you, you internet users who follow uswhich very often put us in your favorites and got into the habit of putting us in the tabs of the home pages of your navigators. Exchanging with ideologically biased filters of social networks which invisit our publications until our subscribers. [ si vous ne l’avez pas fait, faites le sans attendre 😉 ]
And the 2024/2025 quantitative assessment is once of good, we will come back below.
Communist initiative The only communist newspaper referenced on Google News in France.
But the assessment is not only quantitative, He is also qualitative. A point that we can and must underline is recognition on the web of communist initiative, as a source of quality information, regular, reliable, efficient. One of his indicators is thatCommunist Initiative is the only communist newspaper website in France to be referenced on the Google News platform.
An undeniable recognition for those who know the drastic technical and editorial criteria imposed by the search engine to appear in the results of its research portal on current information. Editorial Committee, original and quality content, Sources Transparency, Technical Fiabency of Website Infrastructure and Security, Journalistic Ethics, Accessibility on all Movable Materials … It is to this challenge that the Technical Team and the Editorial Committee, 100% Volunteers, of Communist initiative was able to respond.
What other communist organizations in France noted this performance? If we put humanity aside, which 1 °) is no longer a communist newspaper and a fortiori the organ of the PCF 2 °) benefits from considerable subsidies, there is in reality none. No other communist organization has a newspaper with a monthly publication of a paper edition and a daily web publication referenced by Google News.
The PRCF a political organization recognized and visible on the Internet, far from the groups
Anticommunists, PRCF opponents, are used to discourage young people, workers who want to join him in action and membership of portraying the PRCF as a “group”. Forgetting far too quickly that the PRCF is a national organization, solid which has been able to maintain and renew itself for 20 years, with the presence of many young people organized with their organization of Communist Youths Les JRCF, it is a powerful organization with a monthly communist initiative newspaper and its online daily version www.initiative-communist.fr A review of a deep ideological and intellectual reflection The workers’ opinion, for youth
According to the Similarweb ranking, the PRCF communist website and its newspaper is classified 73,525 at the national level against 24,532 at the national level and for the PCF (PCF.fr) website.
The tool estimates the site’s monthly audience at 15,341 against 49,782 for the PCF site.
Note that the hearing of www.initiative-communiste.fr is actually much higher, double: Initiative-communiste.fr not registered on Google Analytics using a 100% free tool preserving the confidentiality of its visitors for attendance monitoring. Nearly 20,000 Internet users frequently consult www.initiative-communiste.fr. May they be thanked.
The communist website of the PRCF www.initiative-communiste.fr has more audience than the websites of the NPA (NPA-Lanticapitalis.org and NPA-ROVOLUTIERS.ORG) which achieve similar audiences around 10,000 per month.
A remarkable performance when you know the total censorship that strikes the PRCF and its media.
The communist website www.initiative-communiste.fr still remains far from the Insoumise France website and its monthly audience which amounts to 235612, and the Jean Luc Mélenchon website (Melenchon.fr) which brings together a monthly audience amounting to 107992. Illustrating the objective to achieve massification.
Let us observe that other organizations, active for just as long as the PRCF and although having gathered for some time now are far from reaching this level of performance: the URC website https://urcommuniste.fr/ According to Similarweb, only a total audience of 385, in June 2025, brings together. It is 40 times less than the PRCF. One could object that this website is recent and that it is better to take into account the web pages of merged organizations. The RC site rallyingCommuniste.fr does not warn better with a monthly audience of 683. The National Association of Ancient Communists with Ancommuniste.fr is barely less invisible on the net with a total monthly audience in June 2025 of 1661, a classification of audience at the national level of 347899. Better than URC and RC websites. With a monthly audience of 831.
It is true that none of these organizations, during their decades of existence have developed national media and a fortiori of a newspaper. A political choice which may appear to be symptomatic of a refusal of the establishment in practice of democratic centralism and the construction of the Communist Party, as an independent and full exercise organization, in the sense of the Leninist Marxist revolutionary experience which has demonstrated how the newspaper is the organizer of the party. Because a newspaper is the obligation to build a unified, clear line of a solid organization to develop and wear it, distribute it, all together at the same time. The reflection is not new, and Lenin has made it a solid experience in its famous what to do? wondering in particular as follows:
“Everyone without exception talks today about the importance that focuses on unification, the need to” bring together and organize “; But most of the time we have no idea how to do it, where to start and how to achieve this unification. »» Lenin what to do?
And to demonstrate that there is no serious desire to build the revolutionary party without construction of the national newspaper. Communist initiative is tangible proof of concrete commitment, a Leninist Marxist, for – not in speech, but in practice, on the ground, in acts – communist reconstruction.
Revolutionpermanente.fr The Trotskysts website which won a significant part of the 2000 NPA members, especially which benefits from the high visibility brought to him by the media of the Bolloré billionaire with the regular invitations of Kazib anasse by the fascinating Hanouna, which obviously does not benefit by the PRCF and Fadi Kassem, completely censored, realizes Performances. Proof if this is also the respective level of fears of the capitalist class towards leftist organizations not questioning the superstructures of capital and those, communists, which designate and face them. With a monthly audience of 171,400 which is remarkable permanent revolution which made the effort to produce an eponymous newspaper has solid visibility. Which is however to be compared to the data published on the social networks indicating that it has brought together 400 members in total in meetings through all France of their congress in December 2022, and after having gathered 296 activists of 34 NPA committees during the split of June 2021. His last major event brought together a little thousands of people in Paris, with the reinforcement of the Trotskyst International.
Strong growth and presence on social networks
On social networks, the PRCF also marks a solid and growing presence. Like the X account (formerly Twitter) of the PRCF @prcf_ still growing with 8864 subscribers. The audience is also increasing, despite a virulent penalty by the algorithms of the Musk billionaire, exceeds one and a half million annual view. Lutte Ouvrière brings together 16,000 subscribers on X, the NPA 49000, permanent revolution 91000 The PCF 74,000 La France Insoumise 238000. And the CGT 50,000. As we can see, in reality the PRCF is not far from reaching the critical size which would allow it a qualitative jump to weigh the communist action in the balance of power. The presence is also strong on Intagram with the JRCF, on Facebook for the PRCF. A presence which is multiplied with accounts and pages also carried by the various thematic commission of the PRCF (International, Education) or by its departmental organizations, the ARCs. There too, apart from the PCF, the PRCF is the only communist organization to have already successfully completed this organizational challenge.
More than 8000 subscribers is also the audience of the PRCF Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@prcf_ Its videos touch thousands of Internet users, some of those of Annie Lacroix-Riz, Georges Gastaud, or Fadi Kassem regularly exceeding the most than 10,000 views. The chain now provides a thousand videos accessible to everyone.
For their part, the Marxist Cafes of the PRCF now bring together more than 31,000 subscribers. Videos of the channels of the channels reach tens of thousands of views and very regularly exceed 100,000 views. This chain of Marxist coffee now exceeds the audience of the PCF on YouTubeand realizes for each of his videos audiences close to big chains among the strongest in the streaming on the left such as Padoteam or Pasduhring (an ex comrade stream for a member of the PRCF 😉 that he is fraternally greeted if he reads)
These transparent and factual data are the demonstration for all those who hesitate to join the PRCF and the JRCF in action, and even also better in adhesion, that there is in reality no ceiling weighing on the development of the PRCF and the JRCF towards the reconstruction of the great and solid communist party, its media, other than that of their commitment. It is simply only to take the plunge to join a structured, solid, 100% independent organization of democratic social and capitalist ideology, experienced with a deep and anchored political reflection in the struggle of struggles, courageously anti -imperialist, and in full dynamic.
JBC for www.initiative-communiste.fr