IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

French communists step up anti-immigrant campaign

· Socialist Challenge No. 180, 15 January 1981 · p. 6 of the scan · 368 words

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GEORGE Marchais, French CP boss, led 10,000-strong demonstration through Vitry in Paris last Sunday to migration.

The march was CP Jocal mavor who eo the xmas eve assault on a local immigr ant hostel Socialist Challenge last week Marcnais told a party rally last week that he in enthusiastic that it was mdamissiole Interan workers into when have million French and imarmed forces hold the whip hand.

peasantry and in the cities! The American Vietnam, published by the parall.

differences migrant people on the dole'. tones reminiscent of Enoch Powell's carly apocalico contmued Inal too strono a concen tration of immigrants in an area created tensions and ong increased pwpulation Solidi cuarees on ratedavers. •ne logic or this posi TIon was made when Ineration of fleet Vilit in Brittany last weekend withdrew for an Islamic centre in Rennes.

Anti-immigrant timents may catch votes vide hee ney dangerously • working class movement ano attention away from real enemy the bosses and their political parties.

The Communist Party French CP's disgraceful campaid. as in the former South Vietnam, the United States is propping up an unrepresentative regime in which the 'Ranged against them is a guerilla army with widespread support both among the quote is from El Salvador: the Latin an pamphlet El Salvador Solidarity _Cam Many would no doubt regard the comparison between the Vietnam of the 1960s and present-day El Salvador as fanciful. Yet despite between the two situations, there are a number of disturbing similarities. Italian communists attack civil liberties By George Reynolds ITALIAN communist leaders hate 'terrorism ¡ney nate i so mucn inat they con toniect …the crushing of civil liberties to stamp it out.

And last week in the Italian vanamuen. une well so lal as to launch •itter attacks on hacica Party MPs who were acthe Brigades and the Italian police.

These attacks weren't just ones MUniST Meta cold the radical MP Cicciomess 'If you had been alive In my odys you would have been a fascist thug', and threw a glass of beer over him.

When the radical MP _orotested that Pajetta was 'demented', Communist MP slapped him round the lake

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