A milieu had developed around the bookshop La Vieille Taupe which sought to reconcile the views of the German and Italian left communists.
By 1976 Dominique Blanc had published a journal called King Kong International with former members of the OJTR, Le Mouvement Communiste and the milieu around La Vieille Taupe.
It made extensive use of the work of Paul Rassinier, a lifelong pacifist whose political trajectory had taken him through being a left-oppositionist, socialist deputy and by the 1950s a member of the Anarchist Federation.
), which Guerre Sociale published in defence of Robert Faurisson, at the time an obscure professor of literature with a taste for controversy.
The mentor of this phenomenon was Pierre Guillaume, a former member of Socialisme ou Barbarie and Pouvoir Ouvrier who in 1965 had founded the bookshop La Vieille Taupe.
By 1978, several years after the bookshop had closed, Guillaume became infatuated with Faurisson and revived the name La Vieille Taupe for a publishing house devoted to negationism.
However although Guillaume was the messenger, La Guerre Sociale were the prime movers in disseminating Holocaust denial amongst the French ultra-left in the early 1980s.