Chirac suppon Le Pen! The far left is the target of this experience. political campaign, as are all those wn, whatever tcy did with their ballot paper, immediately voted in the street in their thousands.
*Breaking with this political our enemy. indictment, by the guilty and responsible themselves, against their own victims. he population 1 - is a vital movement, for all those who want to make democracy an expression and control and not a machine for duping *The workers have no interest in giving their vote to Chirac, by this they lose their independence and would i their dignity. Some Communist Party militants themselves, that this is a move without consestrange dialectics which wants to convince us that it We will say no to the republican front, and prepare the united front of all the workers and the vouth.
Are we invariably in favour of stopping fascist candidates at any price? Should socialists have voted Conservative in the Cliviger and Worsthome ward in Burley, a normally the BNP won a seat? Alan Thornett If opinion polls in France had predicted that Le Pen beat Jospin for a place in the next found then should Besancenot and Laguiller have stood down in favour of Jospin? (French Campbell MacGregor Fourth Pen (and thereby for Chirac) he June edition of in the second round of the SWP's recent presidential elections. Socialist Review Chris Harman insists that this was the political equiva. carries a rather vitriolic attack by Chris Harman on the LCR treacherous popular front in of the France in the 1930s. International) over compound its call for a vote against Le ridiculous allegation he then goes on to compare the policy of the LoK with the call by German social democracy at action in ere in yuie Hindenburg against Hitler. This reflects a rather sterile SUCH approach to the application to political principle, taking a spectre to disorientate workers from the need to fight the bourgeois programme Trotskyists should have fought for a baycott position, or better still an organised spoiling of ballot papers, preparing the working class for the battles against both anti-working Class and anti ethnic minority politicians.
The balance of forces was in Chirac's favour. Due to Le Pen getting into the second round the Social Democrats and Stalinists managed to get the working class tied to a viciously anti-working class politician.
It was correct to initiate and participate in demonstrations against Le Pen, Trotskyists will fight for this to be the beginning of a campaign of strikes and demonstrations against the programme of a right wing government.
Fascism has been strengthened by the drift to They gained an extra 700,000 votes. Unless the working class puts up serious resistance to Chirac's attacks, grows out of the despair of the middle class and growing lumpen proletariat, who are taken in by their anti-capitalist demagogy.
Gaullism will grow in the Parliamentary elections among the middle class because the main work. ers' parties supported Chirac in the second round of the Presidential elections. Layers of the middle class will vote Gaulist hecause they see them as all-powerful, and follow them because they feel that's the only real force in French politics.
Ine correct lesson of the mist found result wids that the discredited reformist and stalinist parties In the present situation workers' interests can only be defended by extra-parliamentary action Marian Brain.