SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Bourgeois

· Socialist Action No. 181, July 1988 · p. 10 of the scan · 263 words

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page 10 of the scan

Led on the centre parties to break up. their coalition with the right and join the government in some form Secondly the SP alone was not considered. anc would not be considered a totally perfect instrument for government by the bourgeoisie The ruling class prefers to exercise its rule directly through its own through bureaucracy. The SP is not a bourgeois party pure and LIC the workers movement make it a less than total precise the the bourgeoisie.

The bourgeoisie would prefer that the actions of an SP government were giver backbone and sharpness by straightforwardly bourgeois TOTEC.

Mitterrand SUC cessfully eliminated any forseeable threat of the emergence of any significant left within the SP. This has been achieved through a combination of incorporation of left-ward moving forces — seen again in his creating a SP/centre' pact ase see overcald instrument of big European capularm rtance On the surface there is no reason why an SP with a crushing majority should have been bothered about a united centre/right opposition. However the policy of precisely to deepen the "Eurosocialist" features of the French SP, particularly by electoral agreements wit *centre bourgeois parties, to from the line of an SP/C conclusively break his This means breaking with the policies which the BISH Mitterrand govern ment was elected on in 1981, and deepening towards strengthening the EEC, building up the independent nuclear force, and support for the Single European Act.

Making the SP the "natural' party of governthe French bourgeoisie means building a new SP/centre bloc which

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