Disaster in France-What Must Be Done Now

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Sun Apr 21 20:47:55 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Robert Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org>

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Shane Mage wrote:


> But there is no time at all for delay. The French Left must pick
> itself up off the floor and get back in the ring within the next
> two or three days.

-Three points: (1) Jospin and the PS are hardly Leftists. They're neolib to -the core, though cagier than the Thatcherites about hiding it.

Pushing through a 35-hour work week is neolib? Jospin has been promoting strong social clauses in the EU-- that's neolib?

The reality is that the left parties actually did better than in the last election, but the vote was so splintered that they allowed a conservative and a fascist to go to the run-off. The far Right is taking power across Europe and the US over the splintered factions to their left.

-- Nathan Newman



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