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3lum losing the leadership The dying SFIO con o Guy Mollet. Mollet and tinued to disintegrate. On tis faction used Marxist the left a series of clubs anguage bul only to hide and associations pronetr rabid nationalism liferated instead of parties ind anti-communism. was in the Following -Ene expul- almost unique position of ion of Communist being a figure who could ninisters from the govern- unite the left-wing groupnent in 1947 the ings but. when he ran for onset of the 'Cold War", President in 1965 no-one -rench social democracy expected him to do well. leveloped a strategy based As it happened Miton ine so-called 'third- terand forced de Gaulle in 'orce'. This was based on a to a humiliating second guerrillas New Issue of IVP price 65p. Obtainable from The Other Bookshop.

Soçialist Challenge, ,25 February 1983 page.10 the career of Francois Mitterand was interupted by sound of tear gas grenade and marching ICC. Without asking the permission of their reformist leaders the WO KIES class followed the lead o students and staged one of the largest general strikes in historv.

Pathetic Against this background Mitterand, suggesting. .he be made caretaker President, appeared rather pathetic.

He had chosen his monCur Dady Lieerane the trade union leaderships SCULLCUELO Tes oe ocel the workers demobilised, de Gaulle hammered the lett in snap election Humiliation was repeated in 1969 when the SFIO Presidential candidate, Gaston Deferre. recieved only five per cent OBIe vore. se e inay ConSocialist Party was born HICH out ruins of the orio and une tert wing clubs. Soon Michel Rocard would lead part of the leftist PSU into the new party.

Mitterand had understood that 'third force' politics was dead. The Socialists needed the Campaigning for the Union of the Left.

Communist Party for torate who three reasons. Firstly, the Thirdly, HUISLI C CCO EL system meant pressive that an agreement on organisation of the transicas voucs was Irn • ana ineir control of the perative. most important Secondly, Mitterand contederation. wanted access to that 20 could be used either to per cent plus of the elec- DONCC the

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