La Cause du peuple was a French newspaper. The newspaper was founded on May 1, 1968 by Roland Castro and was the press organ of the party Gauche prolétarienne.

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When the GP was banned by the Gaullist state in 1970, promoting La Cause du peuple and selling it on the street became a badge of honor for left-leaning intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Claude Lanzmann, Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.^[1]

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