[lbo-talk] Re: Publishing on the Left...something

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/vote-a27_prn.shtml
The French presidential election: What the figures reveal
> ...In many of the cities and working class suburbs long controlled by  
> the PCF, the leading party in the April 21 vote was the National Front.  
> This took place in Calais, the largest city with a PCF mayor, and in  
> several suburbs in the “red belt” surrounding Paris. The PCF  
> presidential candidate, Robert Hue, first came to prominence two decades  
> ago when, as mayor of one suburb, he led a vigilante attack on an  
> immigrant workers’ hostel, claiming it was a source of crime. The  
> Stalinists thus led the way in disorienting French workers on the  
> questions of crime and immigration, the very issues that Le Pen has now  
> employed to demolish their parliamentary position.

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Michael Pugliese