In 1973 one of the cofounders of the party, Hégésippe Ibéné, was also elected to the French National Assembly.

The second party congress of the PCG was held in 1961, and the main political task of the party was identified as uniting all workers in the pursuit of the provision of Guadeloupe internal autonomy within the French republic.

The third party congress, held in 1964, adopted a political, economic and social program for achieving autonomy, covering demands for the establishment of local legislative assembly and executive body, agrarian reform, and development cooperation, among other things.

In late 1967, at the initiative of PCG, the Young Communist Union was founded.

The party had, in the same year, 1,500 members,[1] and occupied significant positions in 10 of 34 municipalities in Guadeloupe, including eight mayors.