AR FRONT | IMGpapers 1976

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national flag flanked by the hammer and sickle, so the French party mixed the symbol of the October revolution with the Tricolour, Why did the Stalinists led by Thorez and Ducios make such a sharp turn?

This question takes on a renewed importance today with the Italian elections (see separate article) and the development of the Union of the Left in France, which won 49 per cent of the vote in the 1974 presidential elections. Can revolutionary Marxists take the same attitude to the Union of the Left as the Trotskyists of the International Workers Party did to the Popular Front in the 1930s? Is the Union of the Left a popular front?

These are some of the questions discussed below in an assessment by PAM HURST and RIC SISSONS of the sig nificance of the French Popular Front. their capital, union policies". matic cost-of living increases.!