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