The focus for cooperation was the spring 1933 elections Saigon municipal elections. Tạ Thu Thâu and his associates put forward a "Workers's List" and briefly published a newspaper (in French to get around the political restrictions on Vietnamese), "La Lutte" (The Struggle) to rally support for it. In spite of the restricted franchise, two of this Struggle group were elected (although denied their seats), the independent nationalist (later Trotskyist) Tran Van Thach and Nguyễn Văn Tạo, formally a member of the French Communist Party (PCF), now in the PCI.