Leading spokespeople for the revolutionary list: Arlette Laguilles (LO), downturn in working class strugge. sirong resistance the government's austerity measures has occurred.
There has been a specLaCHERSSC OLECSUEULUC immigrant workers, In addition, 1983 started with a series of bitstrikes RenaultBillancourt and RenaultFlins traditionally among the most factories in France What is signiticant on the electoral front is that bv-election victories by the right wing have occurred of the right HOE OCcduNC substantially increasing its but because of OW'L YUL. working class abstentions The danger is that the Mitterand government will succeed in severely class, allowing .sweeping ngat wins victories The new political situation the CLOLLPODI French left. Communist Party is losing support still further, both in The significan split from the CP, , led by former Paris secretary Fizbin, has moved rapidly to the right. Fizbin is presenting himself as a candidate in une election, supported by the SP but viciously op posed by the CP For the first time in several years, the two Trotskyist organisations, Lutte Ouvriere Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire joint list in the TeSCHE d With 4500 can didates this will be one of the biggest revolutionary CICCIU! campaigns in Europe since the second World War SwaTer will therefore see vital Europe; -storiance and West Germany Between them they will begin to reshape the course of European politics