On his return to France, he was one of the founders of L'Union de la Jeunesse Agricole de France (UJAF) (roughly: Union of French Agricultural Youth) and helped form the French Volunteer Battalions of the International Brigades for the Spanish Civil War.

By decision of October 10, 1944, he was sent to the Consultative Assembly along with Pierre Gauthier as one of the six delegates of the United Forces of Patriotic Youth (FUJP).

After the liberation in 1946 he became general secretary of the Union of Young People of Republican France (UJRF), in which other communist youth organizations from the Resistance were also represented.

Towards the end of the war in Algeria, he took part as a leader in the demonstration against the Organization armée secrète (OAS) in Paris on February 8, 1962.

[2] Figuères was a national leader of the French Communist Party and a member of its Central Committee and at its secretariat from 1959 to 1964, responsible for work with intellectuals, he created the Center for Marxist Studies and Research (CERM), he was also director of the theoretical journal of the PCF, the Cahiers du communisme until 1976.