Statement of the LCR 6 May 2002 The road has been blocked to Le Pen. 82% for Chirac, 18% for the leader of the Front National, constitutes a massive rejection of the far right. The election result is first of all the translation of an uprising of the youth, the secondary schools and the universities but also of the inner cities.
But it is also the translation of the resistance of the world of work, and more broadly of society against the rise of the Front national. rrom inis point or view the mav Day demonstrations are the most important since the winter of 1995 and more precisely since Paris on 13th May 1968. Chirac is preparing to strike Even though it has been possible to use the vote for Chirac as a means to block Le Pen's path, the president of the Gaullist RPR Party and the whole of the right cannot constitute a defence against the Front National.
From Sunday evening onwards, the Gaullist language of Chirac has been preparing people for policies which will attempt to win back the Front's voters, by allying with ultraright-wingers such as Millon, De Villiers and company. Statements by Sarkozy, Raffarin, juboe and otners also cleariv reveal ineir intentions: more privatisations, deregulation, attacks on bancianc So we should not imagine that the 80% vote for Chirac will modifv his neo-liberal anti-worker, anti youth, and anti-immigrant policies. No starting again with a Jospin Government. For 100% left policies.
All the causes of Le Pen's rise are still there. For twenty years, successive governments have increased inequality, have let social misery grow. Fundamentally you cannot fight the extreme right without attacking the roots of the economic, social and political crisis.
You have to fight against the neo-liberal projects of the right and of the bosses, but also those of a 'united left' which does not youth and workers.
This is also what the 100% left A law prohibiting sackings halting all privatisations benefits, and pensions pension funds. cation borne by women. learn anything from the policies pursued for five years by the plural left government. What is needed is a different set of policies, which prioritise the interests of the population over those of shareholders. In continuation with Olivier Besancenot's presidential campaign, we propose a social and democratic emergency plan, which breaks with that of the governmental left, policies for a fighting anti-capitalist left, a left which gives new hope to thousands of racism Parliamentary deputies would support.
A law defending public services and • A 230 euro increase in levels of wages, • Preserving pensions and rejection of The provision of grants for youth in eduEnsuring equality at work between men and women and an end to part-time working candidates. Left wingers held their noses to vote Chirac Daring to have policies of equality of rights, legal status for undocumented immigrants, without concessions to Le Pen's • Supporting ecological policies where our lives are prioritised over profits. Achieving this new politics implies a challenge to the absolute power of the bosses over the economy.
It must also be accompanied by a democracy wnere collective interest brevalls over the interests of the privileged minority.
On the basis of these proposals and of these principles, we are submitting an anticapitalist perspective for discussion by all those who identified with Olivier Besancenot's campaign, in order to present the largest possible number of "100% left"
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