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Fragile Coalition
The Communists (PCF) were feeling particularly isolated
- Uncomfortable at
- treatment of workers in newly nationalised industries
- Eg strike severely put down at Renault
- Decolonisation
- Fellow Communist Ho Chi Minh in Indochina
- Brutal suppression of uprising in Madagascar
- Cold War
- Still had reasonable relations with Moscow and were suspicious of the USA’s motives
April 1947
- Communists left coalition