Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:53:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Fwd: French revolutionary running at 9 percent


 --- Philip Ferguson <plf13-AT-it.canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote: > 
 
> I've just received an email from an acquaintance of
> mine in Britain, an  ex-IS/SWPer now associated with
'Revolutionary  History', that Arlette
> Laguiller is running at 9 percent in the latest
> polls in France for the  presidential election. 
Laguiller was a leader of  wildcat strikes by
> low-paid clerical and office workers in the 1970s
> and is the most  well-known leader of the French
Marxist organisation  Lutte Ouvriere
> (Workers Struggle).  Arlette was elected, along with
> two other  working-class women leaders of LO, to the
European  Parliament in 1999.  Her current 9 percent
puts her ahead of fascist leader Le Pen who is at 8%,
and the Communist Party candidate Hue at 4%.
> 
> There is a big interview with Arlette in the last
> issue of 'revolution' and  a major feature article
on the record of the Jospin  government, written for
> us by Lutte Ouvriere, in the new issue of >
'revolution' (neither is online yet though).
> 
> Philip Ferguson
www.revolution.org.nz





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