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IRAC RPR SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 8 April 1978 page 13 Pour en finir avec ce régime d'austérité Voter POUR LE SOCIALISME FOURLE POUNDE VOTEZ POUR LI RUNTRRANEDE PARTIR total defcat of the Socialist Party (PS)
Party (PCF) is a political defcat for the whole workers' moveThe second is that despite the electoral failure of the PS anc PCF the social base of the right wing majority has not been broadened. In fact, the majority still confronts the same problems as before the elections.
Thus they face the dual difficulty of trying tn hroaden their necessity of advancing a poucy of austerity against the working the ruling class remains basical. JEAN-CLAUDE BERNARD works at Renault, the French motor giant, and is a member of the Political Bureau of the Revolutionary (LCR), the French section of the Fourth International.
He talked to RIC SISSONS and PAM HURST about the prospects facing the working class after the We must consider ly the same. various factors. The first is that the elecand Communist important force.
Tored to political situation.
Left Radicals, base and the Communist League Giscard may appear to be the immediate winner of the clection but the Gaullist Rally for class the Republic still represents an This means that the battle we cral secretary, have already seen among the fractions of the bourgeoisie will continue, but more hercely.
The Union of the Left will be confront a new the reality, Already the President of the remain the Fabre. announced that be relinquishes any responsibility he had for che Common Programme.
He did this two bours after the clection to allow himself the largest rooms for manoeuve I the new political situation. He hopes to crue 0se Po between the PS and PCF and next lesson of election is how to overcome the divisions within the working class, which will have lell deep This applies both lo workers Influenced hy the PS and PCF as well as those confused by this fight between the two apparatuses insolar as the working was reduced to an impotent bystander Georges Marchais, PCF genhas exolauic that the problems remain the same as before the elections: unemployment, inflation and so on. But this is only part of The other is that the problems the sanse but in a different political context. The PCT and PS leaderships will he unable to avoid drawing a lead halance sheet of their overwhelming responsibility in the cies. failure of the clections.
The workers unity which we advocate must have two immediate consequences. Firse, a united debate in the entire workers' political tasks and perspectives.
The responsibily bi the Ps and PCF be overlooked, In amy case this debate will occur within the largest workers organisations since l is obvious that both the PS and PCF will not be immune from a crisis after this failure Secondly, the necessity of working towards unity in action within the trade unions oppose the austerity measures which the new gorernment will try loimplement.
The French ruling class cannot possibly apply any othe policy than trying to raise uneniployment buying power working class.
We know that at least for a few months it will be difficult to united struggies against the Covernment's poll Nevertheless this has to be our objective - one which meets the interests of the working class