At the time the policy of PCM stressed the specific conditions of the historical development of Martinique, the immediate need of a broad front to fight for autonomy for establishing 'democratic power, under control the masses, while maintaining economic and cultural ties with France'.

[3][4] PCM participated in the 1960 and 1969 International Meetings of Communist and Workers Parties held in Moscow.

[3] In 1992, Emile Capgras, a Central Committee member of PCM since 1968, was elected President of the Regional Council of Martinique.

[6] In the 1994 European Parliament election, the PCM general secretary Georges Erichot was the nr.

[8] Organizationally, PCM was built along the principles of democratic centralism, with the party congress as the highest organ of decision-making.