Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cotton candy and candy apple stand. The leftist slogan, FOR A REAL CHANGE, was plastered on the walls of hundreds of booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter...
...optimism was premature. By week's end fete had turned into fiasco and joie into tristesse for the Communists. A long-awaited summit meeting of Socialist, Communist and Radical Party leaders was abruptly halted by a strident, embarrassingly public dispute over the common program-the parties' joint campaign platform for the March 1978 elections...
After one day of talks, Robert Fabre, head of the Left Radical Movement, staged a dramatic walkout in protest against Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais's demand for sweeping changes in the program. As Marchais stepped up before the TV cameras outside the conference hall, Fabre shoved him aside and declared that "the French people are not prepared to sacrifice free enterprise and individual initiative to the extent the Communists would like." Marchais proposed that the Communists and Socialists continue the talks without Radical participation. The Socialists declined, and the summit was suspended...
...Radicals. By far the most conservative of the three leftist parties, the Radicals draw much of their support from small shopkeepers and professionals, mainly in southwestern France. Although the Radicals command no more than 4% of the left vote, their support may be crucial to the Socialist and Communist parties if they are to get a working majority in the Assembly...
...real reason to read A Fine Old Conflict, in the end, has less to do with an interest in the nature of the Communist Party than with Mitford herself. There are few people who can be so consistently witty about something they feel deeply about, and simultaneously so insightful. Such people should be treasured, always...