From: "cwright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
Subject: AUT: Re: Fwd: French revolutionary running at 9 percent
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:26:18 -0600


This is really funny.  I used to be in Lutte Ouvriere's U.S. group, Spark.
Arlette runs every election.  I am sure LO is quite excited that she is
polling 9% in the first round.  Also, of all the Trotskyist groups, I found
LO the only one genuinely hostile to trade unionism.  At the same time, they
are Leninists in the truest sense and my years in the group lead me to find
them extremely undemocratic, hierarchical, and sort of 'ultra'Leninist'.

The really interesting aspect of this is not Arlette, but what the support
for her over LePen and the CP means.  That meaning is not self-evident.  I
hope the interview is good.

Cheers,
Chris


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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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