skyist paper in France. Red Weekly welcomes a great event for the world Trotskyist movement this week - the appearance of a daily TrotOn Monday 15 March, Rouge, the former weekly of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (French section of the Four th International commenced daily publication. This is good news not just for the LCR but for the whole revolutionary -movement. especiauv in tre context or the rise of the European revolution.
DAILY STRUGGLE For the first time in France, a revolutionary paper will be able to report on them. the daily struggles of the international workers movement. a w be aote to give these struggles maximum publicity and help to link together the actions of the working class. The columns of Rouge will be open to all workers in struggle, to all the militants whom the Stalinists prefer not to mention in L. 'Humanite because they threaten the Communist Party's res noure ceramv coes nor rene te make the same mistake as Workers Press, the former daily paper of the Workers Revolutionarv Partv. In contrast to the WRP, the LCR does not claim to be the onlv current aspiring to defend the inter ests of the working class. There are other currents in une revolutonary movement and Rouge sees it as an important duty to give them a platform to express their We think that one of the most impor tant steps forward for the European revolution is to move towards the unity in action of the revolutionary left, and one way of helping to achieve this is to open a clear debate. Hence Rouge will carry debates with French and foreign revolutionaries in a clear, constructive and pol In France another major Trotskyist organisation called Lutte Ouvriere (at one time linked to the International Socialist. in Britain) has reacted in an equally fraternal manner, welcoming the creation of the daily Rouge as an important step forward in building the revolutionary party in France. Lutte Ouvriere will be contrib uting a regular column to Rouge.
At a time when the French bourgeois press is in open crisis, a daily revolutionary Marxist paper is entering the arena to speak loud and clear for itself and for the whole workers movement. Every day thousands of workers in Europe want to know more about the capitalist system that oppresses new - ane now to deal i their fight develops, Rouge will be with Yesterday Indochina, today Portugal. tomorrow Spain, the day after the rest of Europe...As part of the Fourth International, Rouge will receive the support of all the other sections. Already the LCR has sent correspondents to Portugal, Spain and Italy. In Britain and the rest of Eur ope, in Africa, Australasia and the Americas, teams of reporters have been set up to report for the daily Rouge so that the struggles or te world workers movement become a part of the experience of the rrench working class.
NOT THE LAST Rouge will be the first daily paper of the Fourth International, but it will cerworld our sections are developing their press, and nownere more so than in bul ope. Already this year has seen the appear ance of weekly papers of the Fourth International in Portugal and Germany Most importantly, Rouge will be the first daily paper not just of the Fourth In ternational but of the revolutionary move ment in general - the first daily of the whole working class in struggle.
Long live the daily Rouge!