Pave: Bold Forward Thinking In France

Le jour 371 de Sarko

Pour les vaincre, il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace, et la France est sauvée !

Georges Jacques Danton,
blustery Montagnard,
describing what France needs plenty of
PARIS 2 septembre 1792

Bold new ideas from the French left.

Ce qui a beaucoup manqué, c’est un parti communiste révolutionnaire implanté dans les qui puisse défier les bureaucraties syndicales et les partis réformistes qui nous ont fait bien trop vite reprendre le travail.

[What is sorely missed, is a revolutionary Communist party embedded in entreprises that can defy the trade-union bureaucracies and the party reformists who made us resume work all too quickly.]

Arlette Laguiller,
Trotskyite and six-time 1er tour presidential loser*
representing the Lutte Ouvrière,
the eternal-revolution-endless-workers-victories party,
explaining the need for another general strike
(infra)

ARLETTE LAGUILLER SOUHAITE
UNE GRÈVE GÉNÉRALE COMME EN 1968
[ARLETTE LAGUILLER SUPPORTS
A GENERAL STRIKE AS IN 1968]
10 mai 2008 (France Info, Radio France)

A brief description of the general strike from an earlier post:

The spectacular French general strike of May 1968, in which over 10 million people demonstrated both for and against a conflicted laundry list of abstractions and practices -- Soyez Réalistes, Demandez L'Impossible (Be Realistic, Demand The Impossible) being one of the more challenging petitions -- simply fizzled out at the moment when push came to shove. In elections the following month, the Gaullist government, embodying the main complaints of the general strike, returned stronger than before, winning 358 of 487 seats. Satisfied with advertising their dissatisfaction, the disgruntled French apparently could not bear to vote out their disgruntlers.

Oh, yes. Pretty obvious more anarchist brinkmanship will fix France right up.

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* Her 2007 swan song captured the imaginations of 1.33% of the electorate, a personal worst: 1974: 2.33%, 5e/12; 1981: 2.3%, 6e/10; 1988: 1.99%, 8e/9; 1995: 5.3%, 6e/9; 2002: 5.72%, 5e/16; 2007: 1.33%, 9e/12.

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