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...specific "program of action" for the next twelve months to find ways to help the aged, economically depressed families and unemployed youths. Meanwhile, the leaders of the majority parties will draw up a specific platform that would be matched point by point against the left's programme commun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Giscard Gets the Message | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...have strong doubts about how long the party's independence from Moscow will last. They also fear that a triumph for the Communists in Italy would indeed have an impact on other countries-most notably France, where the party headed by Georges Marchais shares a Programme Commun with François Mitterrand's Socialists. Together, the two leftist parties gained more than 49% of the vote in the 1974 presidential elections. Others, however, believe that an Italian Communist success would only produce right-wing backlash in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: DON ENRICO BIDS FOR POWER | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...proletariat is an outworn notion-a shocking bit of revisionism that brought a sharp, if predictable rebuke from Pravda. Marchais's new lip service to democratic principles has cheered French Socialists, who are allied with the Communists behind a joint platform of social goals known as the Programme Commun. As the taint of Moscow fades, they believe, the chances will grow for a leftist-coalition victory at the polls in 1978. Thus Revel's broadside, reviving all the old French fears about the true face of Communism, provoked immediate reaction from not only Communists but French Socialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Without Marx or Stalin | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Revel is a disillusioned Socialist who was once a Programme Commun candidate for the National Assembly. He defines his ideal of socialism broadly-"any evolution, reform or revolution" that tends to make an economy "function to the benefit of a larger number of men and [put it] a little more under their control." Such true socialism as exists in the world today, he argues, can survive only along with social justice and political democracy-that is, in the liberal democracies of the West. The two principal obstacles to socialism are Communism and nationalism, he contends. The combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Without Marx or Stalin | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Signs at the rally included: "Fight Communism Anywhere," "Victory in Vietnam," "Coexistence with Commun-ism is suicide for America." and "America. It isn't that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Wake Up America' Rally Supports War in Vietnam | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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