We arrived to" fluff "in the car with Eric at 18h and exchange, the previous meeting, between candidates of the Left Front and present a 20 activists of the "PCF 73" and PG of Savoy had begun. Marie-Christine invited me to join them, I come quickly and plunges into the discussions.
They revolve mainly on the question of "protectionism" against the ravages of relocation and social dumping of market globalization and "free and undistorted competition" with its attendant layoffs and broken lives. I am struck by the convergence of our responses to show that the 'national protectionism' is a lure that brings other economic retaliation from the capitalists and governments that are the target, and it is always the employees toast. The real answers are new trade rules to establish global and European financial centers of public control investment ..., By ending the "independence" of the ECB, social appropriation of companies that do not comply and new rights for active employees or unemployed.
150 people attending the meeting at 20.30 whose originality is that each speaker moves from room to intervene, only and standing before a microphone on a table.
I rise first, seeks a chair and sit down is a time to intervention for me to realize then that the other 3 speakers and the speakers were standing ....
Speaking afterClaude Debons and my apple Christiane Lehmann, only communist general counsel of Savoy almost apologetic to his lack of oratory skill ....
Détrompe you, Christiane as I came to tell you personally then you're the one I was most impressed and learned that night by the accuracy of your argument about the local damage of the crisis and its attendant layoffs (which weigh or threaten myriad SMI / SME component of the economic and social local) on insufficient government aid going to the bosses and bankers, with no control or insufficient on the reasons for this situation and proposals for anti-capitalists out that you're the only one to have brought with vote accordingly in the deliberative assembly of the General Council. I asked where you draw the accuracy of figures, facts and arguments? "In a report Mr. Reeve" did you reply quietly. I asked you how you resisted the pressure of "the neutralization? "Thanks to an association of militant (s) of land helped me with my campaign and continues to support me .
Two notable innovations at this meeting: ... a press table UNITED LEFT maintained by Eric ... and a youngish man who approaches it, approaches me with kindness "you knows." We shake hand but not the "no hands" ... "but if we were together in a congress of the LCR in St Etienne a few years ago, you had the platform 3 and I the platform 2 and you said the majority : only 2 lines Alternatives that of PF2 and that of PF3. It was true. " "Here we agree but you're still the NPA?" I said . He confirms and adds "but you're out too soon." When I think other comrades we say "you're out too late! Personally I think some and others are wrong: we have assumed our responsibilities "on time" by integrating the Left Front and the NPA is the direction that we put out ...!