French elections: capitalism and imperialism are the "danger"
Géraldine | 06.05.2007 14:00 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation
He was an important minister during the Algerian War, and in 1962 a defence witness (together with Jean-Marie Le Pen) at the trial of the officers involved in the Algiers putsch (about the putsch, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_putsch ). Since then, the French extreme right always voted for him.
In 1982, Mitterrand organized the rise of Le Pen's party ( http://michel.delord.free.fr/maindroite.pdf ) and, in 1984, he was at the origin of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior ).
Ségolène Royal owes her full career to Mitterrand. She was his "chargée de mission" (official representative and special adviser) in 1982-88.
Most young French do not know all that. Nobody tells them. Buffet, Bové, Besancenot... stay silent.
About the euro-military policy put forward by François Bayrou, see:
http://www.bayrou.fr/propositions/defense.html
http://www.bayrou.fr/discours/bayrou-relationsinter-220606.html
Whatever the result of the election will be, the basic problems will remain the same.
Géraldine
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those neocons...
06.05.2007 15:10
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"Néocons" exist because of 25 years of "left - extreme right"
06.05.2007 19:20
For the presidential elections of 1965, a press attaché of François Mitterrand was a former doriotist who had been sentenced in absentia to death penalty in 1946 because of its role under Pétain's regime.
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