The French section of the Fourth Inter- national, meeting in congress three weeks ago, drew a balance sheet of the problems encountered in two years of growth. RENE CHARRON and STEVE POTTER report.

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So the problems facing the LCR La situation where organisation nas proportion of workers within its ranks ana conunuca to morovc 1s intervention into the trade unions. The Ligue has also experienced a 13 per cent growth in its memberyears ago and now numbers 7,000 members and organised sympathisers.

The two main debates at the Second Congress centred on political perspectives in rrance and party organisation. Four tendenexpressed themselves during CICS the debate (tendencies A, B, D, E) Tendency D represented the posi tions of the outgoing Committee majority. Numerically, the strongest opposition formed around Tendency A.

BLOC Criticising Tendency D's analysis of the Union of the Left, Tendency A characterised the bloc as a Popular Front and put forward the demand For a Goverr ment of the Communist Party and Socialist Party without bourgeois Conference: Central participation"

Tendency D was not opposed to this demane ane saw Ine mal element of the class collaboration or me unos orme cer norn une inclusion of the Movement of Left Radicals (a very small bourgeois formation), break with the institutions of the bourgeois state, Constitution of the Fifth Republic which arose out of the Gaullist coup or 1930 Further criticisms of Tendency A centred on Tendency D's anal ysis of how to relate to the workers delegations.

and its united Tendency B claimed but in its refusal to specifically the salaried layers.

series of amendments to the leadership of the CP and SP, its poncy tor une unny or une tar len front tactics in relaton to une rerormist partics the main Droo em or une organisauon lay in ursalusauol.. the lack of a high proportion of proletarian cadres and its adaption "new petty bourgeoisie' which is how they characterised on this question.

Formed a few weeks before the Congress, Tendency E submitted a amenements political theses of Tendency D. These Trades). of WOrkI per concentrated on 'a lack of precis ion on the nature of the Union of the Left, on the phenomenon of radicalisation of the working class and on our tactic of the workers united front'. On the question of (Tendency were reduced to technical solutions, which, positive as they might be, would not be elective without a mobilisation of the organisation During the Congress these were accepted Tendency D and the two tendencres used on unis oasis

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