Comeback for the right
CONTENTS
INTERNATIONAL VIEWPOINT
Inprecor, which appears on alternate fortnights.
ISSN: 0294-2925
SWEDEN
The murder that shocked an entire people
3 by Tom Gustafsson
PHILIPPINES
After the fall of Marcos
4 by Paul Petitjean
PORTUGAL
Presidential elections show surprise victory for Soares by Francisco Louca
PEACE MOVEMENT SPECIAL
The debates around the
Prague Appeal by Jacqueline Allio
The Prague Appeal
GDR reply to Prague Appeal
Helsinki, diplomacy and the
THE FOLLOWING statement was issued by the national leadership of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire [LCR], French section of the Fourth International, on the morning of March 17, following publication of nearly complete results of the March 16 parliamentary elections. According to these returns, the Socialist Party and its Left Radical allies got 32% and 210 seats; the two "respectable" bourgeois parties, the Rassemblement pour la Republique (RPR, right Gaullists) and the Union pour la democratie francaise (UDF, Union for French Democracy, liberal Gaullists) got together 42.2% and 289 seats; the Communist Party got 9.8% and 36 seats; and the National Front got 9.8% and 33 seats.
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The right and the extreme right have gained a majority. The National Front, based on racism and demagogy, now has a group of deputies in parliament. These unfortunate results are
FRANCE right and the extreme right have harvested what the left in power sowed
By playing on the argument of
"make your vote count, vote against the right, " to an extent that made a mockery of the most elementary principles of democracy, the Socialist fl
Party may think now that it has saved its own bacon.
However, the SP vote cannot b make up for the setback of the left as a whole, the new drop in the Communist Party vote, and the record abstention rate, which reflect the demobilization of a section of the masses.
Recovery for the left cannot
"cohabitation" maneuvers come via tr
[that is, deals between the SP-held presidency and the right or sections of it in parliament]. That would amount to continuing, in a different form, the policy of conciliation with the right ti and the bosses.
Today, we need a policy that can be useful against these enemies and a new fighting left to pursue it.
We need a policy based on mobilizing the working people to fight back against the capitalist attacks and open the way for real change. More than ever, it is going to be necessary to "see
15 peace movement
Letter from KOS to Charter 77
Peace and European unity
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18 by Igor Lewy
How can our common goals
by Jacqueline Allio and
Sterling: Cheques to International Viewpoint.
Ernest Mandel
In defense of NATO
21 by Politikus
'We will clarify NATO's love of peace*
22 by Petr Uhl
The fight for peace
23 and workers power
IRELAND
Sixteen years of resistance in
Belfast's Lower Falls
24 by Gerry Foley
From the H-blocks to community organising
Interview with Fra McCann
AROUND THE WORLD
CARIBBEAN & CENTRAL AMERICA
Declaration of the Anti
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