Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place, they founded a new mass movement dedicated to holding the line against the French left--to blocking the chances of France's Socialist-Communist coalition of gaining a parliamentary majority in the next nationwide elections. These former gaullists and their sympathizers dubbed the movement the Assembly for the Republic. At its head they proclaimed a new heir to what one commentator called the French "political strong-man tradition" of Napoleon and deGaulle: a smooth 44-year old operator and former Prime Minister named Jacques Chirac...
...mind. Publicly, he has stressed the need for a dramatic pitch to hold the disgruntled lower and middle classes in the conservative-to-center fold. Without a concerted "anti-collectivist" campaign, he has warned with a note of alarm over the past year, the petite bourgeoisie will give the Socialist-Communist coalition the seats in the National Assembly it needs in the 1978 elections to control government initiatives...
...French left, meanwhile, offers clear programmatic alternatives. Francois Mitterand, the Socialist Party head who ran as the coalition's presidential candidate in 1974, advocates tighter national control of key industries, more pro-worker labor regulations and a revamping of the tax structure. And Georges Marchais, the sometimes abrasive head of the Communist Party, has shed a reputation for strict adherence to Soviet directives and identified himself with the type of Euro-Communism espoused by leaders like Italy's Enrico Berlinguer. How long the two men can continue to play down ideological differences and hold their political alliance together, however, remains...
...Western standards, this is hardly more than good-natured ribbing. Given current Soviet conditions, Voinovich is a heretic who is not sufficiently serious about one of the leading heroes of socialist realism-the Red Army. Inspiring war novels, after all, provide the Soviets with some of their favorite reading. Voinovich not only understands this official objection but impishly uses his critics to further his heresy. "Couldn't the author have taken a military hero from real life, a tall, well-built, disciplined, crack student of military and political theory?" he writes early in the novel. "I could have...
...election campaign was the most violent in Jamaican history. It was fought between the socialist P.N.P. and the free-enterprise opposition Jamaica Labor Party (J.L.P.), led by Onetime Finance Minister Edward Seaga, 46. The J.L.P. attacked Manley for financial mismanagement and more or less accused the Prime Minister of trying to turn Jamaica into a satellite of Fidel Castro's Cuba. For their part, Manley's followers talked of "J.L.P. policy and the fascist threat," while Manley himself declared that "the capitalist system has failed...