In the first round of the French Presidential eleccons, the rotskyists mood an histone oreak through in getting three million votes, with the LCR getting the biggest portion of the youth vote.
It was also a good development that Trotskyists got more votes than the Stalinist PCF Unfortunately the LCR made a major mistake in supporting a vote for the conservative bourgeois candidate: Chirac in the second round.
The Revolutionary Marxist tradition is not to support bourgeois candidates or bourgeois parties. but to argue for the workers to fight independently for their class interests in the industrial, political, and social fields.
Chirac should not have been supported in the second Presidential round. He represented the conservative wing of the bourgeoisie, which is planning massive attacks on workers, ethnic minorities, and youth.
Chirac is prooosing to lower the penal ase from 13 to 10, and go after third generation immi. grants by integrating the National Police with the the ethnic minorities may have checred when Chirac won the clections.
Since when did Revolutionary Marxists follow the mistakes of oppressed elements? extreme examples: certain Jews voted for Hitler in the 1930s thinking that he would rein in the people on the FN demonstration on May Day.
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