of the French League (LCR)
AN IMMENSE hope has been born. French workers have just won a considerable victory. They went through the 1968 general strike, tles, often carried out under difficult conditions, before they succeeded in defeating the bourgeoisie's parties period.
The victory of Fran:ois Mitterand shows not simply that the majority rejected the policies that Giscard and have been carrying out for even years. t also presses a desire for radical inange, à desile away with a society that exploits and oppresses the aorkers.
The LCR threw all its forces into this battle.
From the beginning of the campaign explained chat Giscard could raten.
We knew that, because =: the policies of the CP and SP, the defeat of the resolve proBut we were cor inced that it would give workers con:dence, that would seate a new. and much more favourable, situation for the growth of workers' Revement of workers mobilisations inity in struggles. Joy Our analysis was conirmed by the explosion of ay that greetec the elecsion results on the evening e: 10 May, and by the fact CP leaders felt they attend these Socialist Challenge 11 June 1981 Revolutionary Communist The and then years of struggles and batand opening a new demonstrations. was further confirmed by the tone that the CP leadership is using.
Following this initial victory, the desire for unity is more powerful than ever. Millions of workers feel that now anything has become possible. Because of the failure of the May 1968 general strike and the 1978 legislative Felection of there is a real feeling distrust of the CP and SF leaders. Millions of people are wondering what guarantees there are that this time things will turn out better. Unity The only guarantee is the organised strength of the workers, their unity, their own initiatives. It is important now that everything nosciale done to make sure that the workers parues wu ama jority in parliament so they won't have any excuses for carrying out the demands majority government composed of their two parties alone The LCR will demand the immediate formation ol a government made up exclusively of the CP and SP, without any bourgeois ministers. The workers must demand that this government begin to altack the real power of the bosses by carrying out the radical measures that the current situation demands — especially the thirty-five hour workweek without any cut in pay.
To carry out all these the state and party on trial. In a scurrilous attack on Jan Rulewski. leading member of Solidarity who was Daev hostility of the workers, particularly since the Bydgoszcz affair. An anonymous spokesperson explained the demand for inel own union tnus. we Such support however the kiss of death in Poland and acknowledged sympathisers of the group queued up to disassociate themselves Aim What the Soviet rulers tear most is the undermining of the undemocratio rule communist Party over the Not only have Dollical been released, has censorship been partially liftec and independent trade