The political history of French industrial sport is amply marked by the communist footprint. The creation of the FSGT at the end of December 1934 opens a long period during which the project to democratise sport alongside the defence of the USSR. The rejection of the BCP’s guardianship, which began in the 1970s, does not completely obscure the desire of the affinitary federation to pursue some highly political fighting. In the last third of the century, the publications of the Federal magazine Sport and Plein Air show that it is on behalf of Olympic humanism that the FSGT assigns its international activism, in particular in the defence of anti-apartheid sport and in favour of the right to sport for Palestinians. This indicates that at the end of the 20th century, international politics remained a compass for the organisation’s militant life despite a very clear distancing from the Communist Party.