Word: socialist
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Four proud years ago, France's Socialist Party swept into power with a swaggering self-confidence that its ambitious programs for economic expansion and social welfare would usher in a new era of grandeur for the republic. Since then, however, the party has lost much of that self-assurance, as voters have become disillusioned by the country's lagging economy and by suspicions that the government of President Francois Mitterrand has been trying to cover up its involvement in the July sabotage sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the antinuclear Greenpeace movement. Opinion polls show that the voters...
Long before the Socialist delegates began filing into the cavernous Parc des Expositions on an island in the Garonne River, the battle lines on how best to resolve the party's problems had been drawn. On one side was a loyalist camp, known as the Mitterrandistes, whose advocates argue that the Socialists must not abandon their original constituency on the left. The loyalists are opposed to a coalition with centrist groups, even if the Socialists take a drubbing in next year's elections and want to leave the door open for a revival of the old alliance with the Communists...
Violence is necessary to transform modern society into a new, better society, Ahmed K. Shawki of the International Socialist Organization told the audience at a meeting of the Harvard/Radcliffe Socialist Forum yesterday...
Speaking to an audience of about 25 people, Shawki, an editor of the Socialist Worker newspaper, said that since we live in a society in which violence like starvation and the nuclear arms race is part of our everyday existence, violence used to better society is needed and justified...
Gorbachev's choice of France for his first official trip to the West was shrewd. Under Mitterrand, the country has continued to demonstrate its long- standing status as the most independent-minded of the Western allies. The Socialist President has publicly taken issue with Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as Star Wars. There is also a historic precedent for special ties between Paris and Moscow, nurtured by the late Charles de Gaulle and continued by his successors as a means of enhancing France's role in world affairs...