Gaullist. Also invited to explain troar platforms were three lar left candidates in the first round, of the United Socialist Party (PSU), RevoluCommunist Leaguc (ECR), and Communist Com(OCA). Represcoratives of the main union federations, and CFDT. also The spirit of open debate this WET THE STO CCA speakers heard out when also at the Left Radicals and Prog CUTECILS Young people in Paris demonstrate against the Govemment's phony job creation scheme.
ressive Gaullists marks an important break with the past anti-democratic practices the reformist parties. For this isolated occurrence. but was sirrored in 30 or 40towits and cities.
This change has taken place because the crisis of perspective tor the workers movement now shaking up both the PS and PCF. Different options are being advocated not simply at the base of these parties the level of leadership (there the PCF political bureau, for instance).
This offers an unprecedented opportunity for revolutionary Marxists to win a bearin workers who still SUPPUEL these parties; to demand a debate programme with their leaderships while at the same time insisting on unity in action against every atrack by the capitalists.
Through this process which will be slow at first -the opportunity to bring down Giscard witich was lost in the elections can still be achieved in struggle.
August 1968.