The Presidential elections leave us with a bitter taste in our mouths, with Le Pen at 20% and "super-liar" at 80%. Le Pen was beaten, but he received more than five million votes. Now, Chirac is going to rub our noses in the dirt, by emphasising law and order and economic ultra-liberalism.
Against the far right and the right, a repackaged governmental left will not measure up. The "united left" will fool no-one. It wants to continue the politics of the plural left and of the Jospin government.
In a situation of social and political crisis where tensions are going to build up, vague policies, and broken promises, accommodations with neo-liberalism, concessions to the bosses can only prepare the way for the authoritarians and the far right. This traditional left is not the instrument with which to fight the causes that led to the political earthquake which the country has experienced.
A new political force is needed today, a party which breaks radically with all the policies pursued for the last twenty years by successive governments.
The LCR addresses the millions of electors, socialist activists, ecologists, and communists who wish to draw the balance sheet of the policies pursued by the left in government.
We address everyone active in the social movements and campaigning organisations in order to discuss the programme and the content of this new force.
Right now we call on everyone who wants to commit themselves to defending a real left policy, in the service of the workers to participate in all the activities of the "100% on the left" with the LCR and its partners. We deeply regret that LO has refused to commit itself to a common approach in the coming parliamentary elections.