France: Four months of Socialist government

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are becoming clearer. greeted the Giscard is giving way to a much more sober assessment of the extent to which Mitterrand to challenge the basic structures capitalism in order to acheive radical change.

Without doubt, the new government has taken a series of social measures the interests of the workine Class.

The new government has abolished the HULUrious Security Court' used mainly against Basque and Corsican militants. and rrench opponents of the state. It has buspencc mme deporalon of immigrant workers, and taken meaues to make l easier for immigrants to obtain residence and work permits.

The death penalty has been abolished, and the government has announced a "slow down' in the HuC Cdr energy COUSUUCtion programme, including cancellation of the Plogoff project which had become™ focus for Tes starce Huc cal power. FOUR MONTHS after the election of Francois Mitterrand as French President, the contours of the policy of his Socialist Party government The euphoria which defeat of right wing President and his Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy are likely of French countries MitterTanO will daupl a nore 'left' stance. The joint French-Mexican declaration that the FDR-FMLN El Salvador 101 CCS i important icl cocal section of the people of that country is typical of that stance.

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But in other parts of the world, in particular on the Soviet Union and the Middle East the picture is different.

Mitterrand's foreign minister Claude Cheysson has denounced the British Labour Party tor its anti-EEC stance.

The French boeasovem er! be staunchly pro-Western and pro-Common Market.

It will also be militantly BIO-siee Neither will solidarity and sympathy people of the third world mean that French troops will be withdrawn from Africa.

But the contradictions of Mitterrand are most Seernauon lu the basic issues of ownerSillp CALOH ot the economy, and the condiuons or ure ore crenca workers.

French capitalism

wracked by the same basic Droo ems asausa caotalism. Unemployment neany two milon, wallc inflation has received another big spurt over the - with transport, sumome -gas, electricity and petrol all rising by about 15 per cent.