The best results for revolutionaries in decades
By Gerry Bates As we go to press, Arlette Laguiller, candidate of the Trotskyist group Lutte Ouvriere (LO), looks like getting maybe five per cent of the poll, or one and a half million votes, in the first round of the French presidential election on 23 April. If this happens, it will be probably the best score that revolutionary candidates have ever achieved in a modern European election — better than the two per cent (600,000-odd) which LO has usually got since Laguiller first stood for president in 1974, and much better than the 236,000 which Alain Krivine got in the 1969 presidential poll...