The agony of the 'left'
FRANCE continuation of the austerity policy with a left government or a stepped-up austerity policy under a government of the right. The LCR wants to offer the workers another choice -to reject such austerity policy in general, no matter whether by a left or right government.
"On this basis, we have appealed to all forces that claim to stand to the left of the official left. We have proposed to them to unite our forces in order to lay the basis for building
THE MARCH 16 parliamentary elections will be a major watershed, since the "left" government that came to power in May 1981 has become largely discredited, and a tough right is in position to regain power.
Facing a crucial political the major workers' parties are tinuing policies that have paved the for a disastrous setback for the
French working people in the March
16 parliamentary elections. And most of the far left groups have not shown any capacity to rise to the challenge of offering an alternative to the large numbers of working people disillusioned by a "left"
government applying a capitalist austerity policy.
Five years ago, the defeat of the right was greeted by jubilant crowds, government or opposition.
"The SP's only goal is to lose as few votes as possible so as to remain a power in the country that cannot be gotten around. The ambitions of the CP are even more modest. What its chairperson, Georges Marchais, wants to do is stop the decline in votes and membership and sweep its record in the government under the table."
Krivine continued: "We are being presented with a choice between a a broad anticapitalist current, which would respect the specific features of each of its components but discuss and fight together.
"In making this proposal, we took into account the confusion that prevails today in the French workers' movement. But we also took into account the desire of thousands of organized and unorganized working people for an alternative to the threats of the right and the ultra-right and the official left's politics of capitulation."