tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post6902633508665163060..comments2024-03-28T17:26:00.653-07:00Comments on ZZ's blog: Is the French Communist Party Back?zoltan zigedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376602245528691381noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-82909784461744761652012-04-07T10:35:03.260-07:002012-04-07T10:35:03.260-07:00The presidential campaign has given a new focus to...The presidential campaign has given a new focus to a revitalised left in France, and one that has a different shape. The various trotsykite formations, whose media-blessed campaigns put them in front of the PCF's Marie-George Buffet in the last presidential election have vanished from sight and poll below 1%. Much the same has happened to the ecologist candidate while the anti-globalisation movement, which had some minor electoral traction has also vanished.<br />A lot of this is due to the personality and political style of Jean-Luc Mélenchon who has put himself at the head of a remarkable convergence of different streams of anger and reistence and who has dug into the support of both the middle of the road Parti Socialisté and the populist (and racist) Front National.<br />There was a great deal of suspicion in the PCF about the candidature of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Part of this was grounded in his uncertain record as an ex trotsykite, former PS minister and now repentant but former advocate of the European Union. Part of it was grounded in a suspicion that rightwing elements in the PCF leadership wanted to dissolve the party into an amorphous Left Party and they saw the alliance of the PCF and Mélenchon's Party de Gauche – itself a breakaway he led from the PS – as the embryo of this liquidationist trend.<br />In the internal party ballot the leadership had to pull out all the stops to defeat proposals to stand a strong and militant communist rather than back Mélenchon and did so but not comfortably. <br />But French communists – especially the left – are a dogged and mostly disciplined lot and they have loyally backed the decision.<br />Although the Front is made up of the Parti de Gauche, the Gauche Unitaire (a breakaway from the trotskyite NPA) and a number of smaller formations it is the 100,000 strong PCF which is the organisational core of the electoral machine. Probably one in three or more PCF members are either lcoally elected representatives or trade union delagates and it is the only party that is present in every working class community and the only one that has a national network of enterprise based collectives.<br />The trend represented by Robert Hue (who only gained election to the Senate with PS support) has been on its way out of the PCF for some time and is heading in the direction of the PS rather than some new formation.Nick Wrighthttp://21stcenturymanifesto.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-68702767023527084842012-04-06T07:55:10.455-07:002012-04-06T07:55:10.455-07:00Hello,
we were 70.000 in Toulouse yesterday eveni...Hello,<br /><br />we were 70.000 in Toulouse yesterday evening !<br /><br />Here is a link to see some pictures of this great moment :<br /><br />http://clichesdecampagne.franceinter.fr/story/l-appel-du-capitole#main<br /><br />Best regards !Nicolas VDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07678588116434194797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-17367468009860309902012-04-06T07:52:53.188-07:002012-04-06T07:52:53.188-07:00Hello,
we were 70.000 in Toulouse yesterday eveni...Hello,<br /><br />we were 70.000 in Toulouse yesterday evening. You can see som pictures here :<br />http://clichesdecampagne.franceinter.fr/story/l-appel-du-capitole#main<br /><br />Que se vayan todos !Nicolas VDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07678588116434194797noreply@blogger.com