fighting alternative, writes MURRAY SMITH. But the impact is unfortunately weakened my lie presence or two or nore far-left candidates in most 18L13 The LCR (French Section of the pint campaign with twp other far left ander the name For socialism, for The CampaIen 15 belding over 250 candidates, 150 ol lem from the LCR.
Its political basis is threefold - to splain constantly the class collaborFionist nature of the Common Programme (in either its Communist Socialst variant), to present a lass struggle programme, and to call he second round to kick our the right.
THIRST Thete are still differences within the impaign. For example, the OCT caller Curd PS, bur for the Left Radicals, a These difterences are indicated in he lexe ot the common pator, ra The 1978 revolutionary campaign is bigger than ever. In almost that night, mostly miners and every constituency militant workers will have the chance to express heir distrust of the reformist parties and their support for a cach organisation's candidates stand on their own programme as well.
The CR campaign centres on the need for a urited workers front, and for a goverament of the Communist not to carry out class-collaborationist poises but to smoiement workers demands and break with the raling class, its parties and its state.
The LCR's local meetings are campaiens, but the audiences are now or groups froii the same workplace discussion on everything from the PCE-PS split to che struggle against proCes or mom nanomales.
PCF militants are coming to many meetings, bot just to put the party line but to discuss. When the LCR's Alain Krivine spoke at a meeting in a Lorraine mining community near Forbach (the French equivalent of Bandey) the mayor, an old PCE militant, finished the town counci meeting carly and came along Krivine addressed a meeting of 60 including many PCF members, A PCE meeting in Forbach the same night, with a big-name paity speaker, dres slightly less.
examples, but all over the country revolutionaries ure fisding a new audience of militant workers. Many voled for Then is tast soar's municipa scored 8-10 per cent in several towns, and 12 per cent in Drieans The other major far left campaign i Latte Duvricee's. Last year 1.D formied part of the revolutionary slate in the monicipal elections along with the ECR and OCT.
IMPROBABLE The name was the same, socialism, for workers' power and sc vas the political basis of the platform campaign, and a massive one at that, Whereas the LCR OCT-CCA bist concentrates on towns where 10d organisations already have some dares into the most improbable places with the other organisations, LO's explanation that they have major differences, mpecially with the
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