Le Travailleur du Centre Ouest

Le Travailleur du Centre Ouest
Le Travailleur du Centre et du Centre Ouest, May 1, 1944 cover
TypeWeekly
PublisherFrench Communist Party
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageFrench language
Headquarters6, rue de la Providence, Limoges 45°49′46.6″N 1°15′55.6″E / 45.829611°N 1.265444°E / 45.829611; 1.265444[1]
Circulation5,000

Le Travailleur du Centre Ouest ('The Mid-West Worker') was a communist weekly newspaper published from Limoges, France.[1][2] Le Travailleur du Centre Ouest was the regional organ of the French Communist Party in Limousin. It was founded as a continuation of the Communist Party newspaper in Corrèze, Le Travailleur de Corrèze, and the communist organs in Creuse and the Haute-Vienne.[3]

Le Travailleur du Centre Ouest was printed in 5,000 copies. As of 1929, 62% of its subscribers lived in the country-side. For example, 3.2% of the inhabitants of Saint-Julien-le-Petit were subscribers, compared to 0.3% in Limoges and 1.9% in Saint-Junien.[2] Le Travailleur du Centre Ouest supported collectivization as the solution for the agrarian crisis.[2]

During the Second World War, it was published irregularly as Le Travailleur du Centre et du Centre Ouest.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 448
  2. ^ a b c Tricard, Jean, Philippe Grandcoing, and Robert Chanaud. Le Limousin, pays et identités: enquêtes d'histoire (de l'antiquité au XXIe siècle). Limoges: Pulim, 2006. p. 398
  3. ^ Arkheia. Le PCF dans le Sud-Ouest : centre et périphérie
  4. ^ French National Library. Le Travailleur du Centre et du Centre Ouest